https://www.secondratedemocracy.com/
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Seventeen Ways America is Less Democratic than other Major Western
Countries and How We Can Do Better
A web project of Douglas J. Amy, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Mount
Holyoke College
The United States is the country that democracy left behind. At its
founding, the U.S. was on the cutting edge of democracy. Our
Constitution rejected rule by kings and pioneered democratic innovations
like civil liberties. But in the 200 years since, democratic
institutions have continued to evolve – with improvements in
legislatures, elections, the judiciary, party systems, and so on. Other
Western nations, with more modern constitutions, have taken advantage of
these institutional advances and made their democracies fairer, more
representative, and more accountable to their citizens. We haven’t
followed suit and we’ve become a second-rate democracy, with a
government mired in gridlock, dominated by monied interests, and
unresponsive to the public."
[…]
"Americans like to brag that we have the oldest constitution and the
oldest political system in the world. But this is like bragging that
your phone has the oldest operating system. Democracy has moved on and
improved, but we have not."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
