Is the US still a democracy?

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2. How can anyone believe the US is a "democracy"?

It was NEVER a democracy. Democracy is rule by the PEOPLE. The US is a dual suffrage system where the states also have suffrage. Of course this is a farce... "states" don't vote... the PEOPLE in them do. So the entire system is a vote weighting scheme. Live in one state... your vote might be 4x greater than another.... leading to the Trump Junta... and a Senate where GOP Senators representing 33 million FEWER people have control.

Our very system disenfranchises DEMS... and they seem determined not to consider major reforms. Of course if they tried... states with 4% of the US population could thwart any amendment.

Perhaps now we can see why when faced with the dysfunctional and reformproof Articles of Confederation... the "framers" started from scratch.

We lack that courage,