AmidFuror

How often in US democracy does the person with the most votes lose? Even just on the national level, there are several hundreds of people elected every other year.

If you mean the Presidential election, it has only happened 5 times in 200 years.

Referendums are calling propositions in the US and are voted on at the state level. Special interests pay tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptive TV ads for or against propositions. The messages tend to be very dumbed down because the average person is too stupid to vote for anything beyond a simple slogan.

Direct democracy leads to a lot of idiot things getting done. Representative democracy was better for a while, but you still get Nazis coming to power from time to time.

Churchill had it about right:

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

Older voters saw Democrats as more equipped to handle issues important to Americans 50-plus, such as Social Security, Medicare, the cost of prescription drugs and the ability to age independently at home. But Democrats’ edge over the GOP was relatively small on those questions, a sea change from polling 10 to 15 years ago, when Democrats had a bigger advantage, Ward says.

Not only are you ugly, but your driver is the asshole.

So until Japan does that, everything they do or say is not newsworthy?

Sounds like he has concepts of a plan.

I may be a Luddite, but I never use the Auto setting for the cars ventilation system. I also don't want A/C on with heating. If it's cool outside, I'd rather run the fan harder with no A/C.

My attitude is that putting money in Elon's bank account in any way is funding evil, corrupt, and stupid people getting into office all over the world.

At the risk of being impolite, it reeks of cuckoo.

You don't have to make up situations that haven't happened to hate on someone. Just hate on what they've actually done.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Disgusting normie. Where's the angst? Talk about privilege, am I right?