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wake up and smell the coffee
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. The U.S. has already
made plain to the world what the informed have known for decades,
that it is one of the worst human-rights offenders in the world.
It is also partially ruled by religious (Christian) fundamentalists,
who go around telling everyone that religious (islamic)
fundamentalists are a danger to the world.
Now it is time for a country with a very undemocratic system to stop
telling the rest of the world what democracy is.
If, say, Milosovic came up with a system such as the electoral college
("this region has a small portion of the population, but their votes
count more"), the international community would, rightly, have said
"whom are you trying to fool?".
Admit that the electoral college stems from a time when one had to
have not just representative democracy (which I think is a good idea;
division of labour is the basis for civilisation) but representational
voting as well. Those days are long gone.
Any mathematician will tell you that the difference between 1 and 2
is less than that between 2 and an arbitrary number. In other words,
a two-party system is only slightly better than a one-party system.
Many countries in the rest of the world are much more democratic than
the U.S. (The systems aren't perfect, but MUCH better than the
electoral college.) But the U.S. still thinks it is the most
democratic country on the planet.