Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in an interview with NBC News that he will encourage progressive voters to still back Democrats on the ticket in November even if moderates are victorious in the primaries.
  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    23 days ago

    Every couple of months a brand new movie comes out and millions of people go to watch it because they hear about it on ads. It takes less than a month to make something popular among the public.

    That’s not a metric on how to measure how democratic a government is…?

    Democracy is measured by how much access the average citizen has to influence how the nation is run. Compared to a direct democracy, the average American is pretty separated from the levers of powers. We are a democratic Republic, meaning that we do not directly vote for every law, but instead vote on representatives to vote on those laws.

    How these representatives are elected, how much power they have, and how they can operate in regards to their constituent’s will are all ways that we are moved further away from the democratic process.