To Remember a phrase from Rodriguez... "Nothing Beats Reality". This is the democracy USA created. Results are your reality. So don't complaint. We created this. What you are wishing for now as democracy is not the democracy we created. You want to talk about the electoral college too? Reality Rules.

The president is not elected by popular vote and I’m damn glad because we would have had Al Gore and Hillary Clinton as presidents and both were incompetent or corrupt. Without the electoral vote the NE and west coast would elect the presidents and they seem to be very liberal.

I felt that the lineup in 2016 was horrible and I think those numbers reflect that. Also the fact that congressmen represent the highest bidder and that we still use the electoral system hinders our democracy greatly. A majority of people support net neutrality and marijuana legalization and yet this administration is coming down against it. If we ran things by popular vote this wouldn't be an issue. Maybe we should take a cue from Britain and introduce to our constitution a way to have votes of no confidence for our politicians.

Democracy is where people govern themselves. What does it take for people to govern themselves? One thing is they must have a certain level of engagement along with some amount of critical thinking skills. I am not convinced the majority has either of these tools but I believe the verdict on whether democracy works here or not is not far off.

This is democracy. The present ruling party in India had just 31 percent of the votes casted. Still they have a brute majority in the lower house of the Parliament. The point to be noted is only 66 percent of the total eligible voters had voted. This accounts to 20 percent of the total eligible votes. In America I thought it was 55 percent turn out

The rich and powerful quietly and subversively own this country. That seems as clear as day to me now. We can dick around with the "voting system" aka the quaint concept of democracy until we're blue in the face, but that whole thing's a racket as well. After several years of watching and waiting and hoping, I no longer believe anything short of an armed revolution will bring the power back to the people, assuming we ever had it to begin with, and only until some other charismatic figure steps in to obliterate that, too.

Since I'm not into brandishing weapons against my fellow citizens, regardless of creed, I'll await the inevitable collapse or takeover instead...with a keen eye cocked toward sufficient self defense.

Not hopey-changey enough? I know. I'm working on it.