So...when "Democracy is in Danger"

[Hessian]

Just a little reminder for our less educated "citizens" who mourn the risk to "Our Democracy"
James Madison, in “Federalist No. 10,” warned that most democracies have been as “short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

So what do we have?...A Republic, intentionally designed, and constitutionally bound.
Please remind everyone who makes that claim...that they really are ignorant.

 

[Ken King]

Its the political parties that are the disruption to the "more perfect union". These are the "factions" the Founders warned us to avoid. It limits the deliberation on ideas to only two choices were there could be many acceptable possibilities.

Additionally, it would be nice if the Senate got back to representing the welfare of their state within the government, another almost impossibility with these "factions".

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

I sure do hope democracy dies soon so we can get back to being a Republic once again.

 

[Monello]

Additionally, it would be nice if the Senate got back to representing the welfare of their state within the government, another almost impossibility with these "factions".

At the national level, the elected representatives should be voting on behalf of the population from their districts. Even if that vote is counter to what they believe. If people were paying attention, any time a politician voted against their interests, they would vote out that candidate. Somehow most incumbents end up getting re-elected, and the partisan cycle continues.

 

[Ken King]

At the national level, the elected representatives should be voting on behalf of the population from their districts. Even if that vote is counter to what they believe. If people were paying attention, any time a politician voted against their interests, they would vote out that candidate. Somehow most incumbents end up getting re-elected, and the partisan cycle continues.

And that is how it should work for the House. By design the House is for the people (and selected by them), the Senate, by design, were to be the states representatives (why they originally were appointed by the legislatures).