We need a major change.

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As an expat always looking in to what's going on in my native US I have to stop and wonder as to how US democracy has evolved since the funding fathers. When I analyze the US system vs. the rest of the democratic world I end up thinking that the US is one of the most undemocratic democracies anywhere.

The United States has never been a direct democracy. It has always been a Representative Republic. I'll wait with patience while you make a case that it is less Democratic than Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and other Woke paradises in the world.

1. Elections in most democracies take between 4-16 weeks at the federal level; in the US it's an ongoing perpetual machine with billions of dollars spent and in turn billions of IOU's. There's enough corruption generated by 4-16 week elections so in the US it must be staggering. The US system encourages lobbyists to a higher degree than elsewhere in the world and this in turn narrows the scope of governance.

You won't get ANY argument there. The richest neighborhoods and the largest concentration of the super rich are on K Street in Washington, where the lobbyists ply their trade. They buy Congress, and Congress buys votes. And TV time is very expensive.

2. Americans hold dear their 2nd amendment right to bear arms but they forget to put it in context of when and why it was written. Face it folks the British ain't going to show up at your door with flintlocks. Neither will the Russians or Chinese.


Actually, Americans hold dear the ENTIRE United States Constitution. (Except for the Democrats who are illegally impeaching Donald Trump.) But I suggest you read the Second Amendment and show us where the word "Flintlock" is being used.

Without asking which country you expatriated to, I gotta ask if you're truly happy. President Trump and most of America didn't begin building that wall to keep people IN this country. Half the world wants to come here.

Where you're living now, (and again you don't have to say where) are you enjoying freedom? How expensive is it to live? Does the tax laws leave you enough money to buy a house? How much does gasoline cost?