This article must be written by naive children. The moment "American Democracy" died would be with the Patriot Act after 911.
Snowden, Assange and all that.
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Or with the implementation of institutionalized slavery.
Neo libertarian with capitalism pleasure doing business with you.
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If you're not good at US history: 1789 was when the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation.
Name one year that the US was a democracy.
You're being downvoted but you're not far off. Women and minorities couldn't vote for a very long time. We had slaves and still do through incarceration. It's only been in the last few decades that we were closest to be what we claimed to be, and yet still quite a ways off. And that progress was greeted with the system coming down on us attempting to "fix" what we had broken by moving towards true freedom for all.
If over half of the population is unhappy with the election results after an election takes place, I think its clear you're not living in a democracy.
I think a Parliament and rank choice voting are prerequisites to democracy. The only reason the US doesn't have these things is to ensure that the power remains in the hands of the plutocrats
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