Time to break free of traditional political ideological labeling and divisions. Time to abandon old, divisive sociopolitical labels like "liberal" and "conservative".
A new political party based on a vastly, commonly held virtures lends itself to embrace over 66% of Americans, and it clearly embraces progressive principled thinking. In the most ideal American sense of unity, a political party should not be able to be defined or placed as "to the left" or "to the right" of where the Democratic or Republican parties currently are. Just let it exist organically based on present-day principled thinking. The American Progressive Majority.
Originally Posted By u/Atlanticbboy At 2025-03-23 04:38:18 AM | Source
Democracy seems to be broken in the US if this is true
USA is not considered a “full democracy” outside of the USA itself. It does not rank particularly highly on indexes of democracies either.
This is by design, the US election system was built to prevent "tyranny of the majority". Which makes sense in theory, but it would make more sense if it was also backed by a government structure like a parliamentary republic with proportional representation instead of a presidential republic.
Can you elaborate? Tyrany of the majority is as such democracy, if you have an opposing opinion
The US is a federation. Each state is like a separate country in many regards. And small states don't want to end up submitting to things a majority of their population doesn't agree with because bigger states end up skewing the overall majority. So states' voting power is not directly proportional to their population, which supposedly evens the playing field.
Think of the US as something like the EU, not like a single European country. You could say 60% of Europeans agree on some subject, so it should be the law in Europe, but that 60% overall could be 90% in France, Germany and Italy, but 10% in Lithuania and Cyprus. So why would those latter countries accept such a law?
Democracy is not "majority rules". Democracy is "Government by consent of the governed". You're describing "populism", not "democracy".
"Populism" is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. "Democracy" is every measure the sheep has to keep themselves of the ballot.
The wolves will take their populist position and complain about "minority rule", but the principles of Democracy dictate that the sheep must not be subjected to their popular whim.
Just First-past-the-post voting things