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Recently tons of articles appearing in Chinese newspaper claiming American democracy is bad. Many of those articles are quite long, Here is an excerpt from a newspaper in China:

“In the second presidential debate, instead of discussing future policies, both candidates violently attack each other’s personal virtues, but neither are people of great virtues…The benefits of political competition in western system has gone…clever rhetoric has replaced honesty and ability… American democracy has lost the moral high ground, this time, America, the greatest “democracy preacher” on earth should have a rest…”

In your opinion, did American democracy lost its appeal and it is no longer a good system? Why?

bobevenson wrote:that count the opinions of everybody.[/size]

And what about the people who don't have an opinion? Doesn't it matter what they think?

No, it's non existent, Sanders was stabbed by his own people and all fingers points towards Hillbilly, Trumpet is a disasters with his temper and dodging an interview with Fox News anchor woman.

Dumb question.
American democracy has never been good.

It took 100 years before it was close to a democracy. Those allowed to vote for Lincoln was around 5% of the population.
It's always been closely controlled by the establishment, and the two party system gives a choice of two almost identical persons.

bobevenson wrote:Democracy is the only check against tyranny. Unfortunately, political elections don't reflect the will of the people since only a small fraction of the population actually casts a vote.

Mostly because there is no one worth voting for.

bobevenson wrote:Forgive me, but that's an exceedingly stupid reply.

I'll never forgive you for being alive let alone the litany of your fuck-arsed moronic answers.
Take a good hard look at your fucking candidates.
One evil witch, and one government scrounger bankrupt racist p****.

American democracy has never been what I would call good. It has usually been better than this, but it's had more low points than high.

The present debacle is due half to the Republican party's selling out to the lowest [tax] bidder over the past three or four decades, systematically jettisoning its honest, literate and patriotic members, cozying up to Big Religion and Big Guns, and half to mass media: news-as-entertainment; staged "reality" shows, celebrity-cult and systematically jettisoning its honest, literate and patriotic journalists.

Whatever comes out of this embarrassing auto-da-fe, it won't be pretty. It will, perhaps, be cathartic.

Hobbes' Choice wrote: Take a good hard look at your fucking candidates.
One evil witch, and one government scrounger bankrupt racist p****.

We should send Jeremy over there. Their need is greater than ours.

bobevenson wrote:None of you understand

There's no point in us understanding. It's not as if we can do anything about it.

Harbal wrote:

bobevenson wrote:None of you understand

There's no point in us understanding. It's not as if we can do anything about it.

True, but it might help reduce the number of stupid posts in this forum.

bobevenson wrote: True, but it might help reduce the number of stupid posts in this forum.

People who live in glass houses.......