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The Economist Intelligence Unit's analysis of democracies world-wide, infographic:
Democracy by region, here: [FONT="]Democracy index by country[/FONT]
As anyone can see, democracy in America, when inspected under a microscope is comparatively not as good as Americans like to think.
In most functional democracies on earth, it is simply the popular vote that determines the Executive. Not in America, where an archaic intermediary body (called the Electoral College) was instituted because the founding fathers thought - since most Americans could not read or write - that they could be "unduly influenced".
Moreover, few countries allow unlimited financial support of candidates in a presidential election. (But ours is not the only country to all unlimited financial support and yet there is not the same consequence as in the US - see that curious outcome explained here.)
Since the start of our nation, six presidential elections (including the last one) have been won by the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College.
This is a travesty of supposedly "free elections" in a supposedly democratic nation ...
Democracy by region, here: [FONT="]Democracy index by country[/FONT]
As anyone can see, democracy in America, when inspected under a microscope is comparatively not as good as Americans like to think.
In most functional democracies on earth, it is simply the popular vote that determines the Executive. Not in America, where an archaic intermediary body (called the Electoral College) was instituted because the founding fathers thought - since most Americans could not read or write - that they could be "unduly influenced".
Moreover, few countries allow unlimited financial support of candidates in a presidential election. (But ours is not the only country to all unlimited financial support and yet there is not the same consequence as in the US - see that curious outcome explained here.)
Since the start of our nation, six presidential elections (including the last one) have been won by the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College.
This is a travesty of supposedly "free elections" in a supposedly democratic nation ...