How can America hype democracy when 70% of its people find fault with the president and his party for years?

Answer 1

first of all your numbers are not correct.

You are turning his approval rating around, to make it look like everything else is disaproval. That is not the case. I believe when he had the 32% approval rating, the disaproval was around 52%, and the rest was undecided, or had no opinion.

However, i think those polls are biased anyway. Zogby (one of the most 'respected' pollsters) proved its targeting techniques when they polled soldiers in Iraq, and concluded that most want to come home. They did that by asking soldiers when they should come home.

Answer 2

We hear the peoples' complaints!
I understand your point about such a huge proportionof the population of the U.S objecting to Bush (I hope). I'm from the U.K and to me he makes a very bad impression, so does Tony Blair. But the fact that objectors are not picked up from their homes in the middle of the night and never seen again is a democratic thing. The media can be as nasty as they like without being closed down and their staff imprisoned or executed, that is democracy. Opposition parties can do their thing and elections are (reasonably) fair. It's not perfect, in fact it's a mess, but there are so many countries where these simple things are impossible and America is envied for it.
Countries that I think are less democratic than the U.S - The Democratic Republic of Congo. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Somalia, Liberia, Libya - oh, there are dozens and dozens.

Answer 3

The people chose Bush. Well actually the crooked Republicans on the Supreme Court chose him. Democracy is a nice word. It has nice psychological associations. Its catchy. It has no bearing on reality, no connection to reality, but reality does not matter, only appearance does, so throwing around a word like Democracy is a useful if cynical political tool to con people into supporting even more wars overseas and flushing the Bill of Rights down the toilet.

Answer 4

True.
How about "How can America hype democracy, when the elections are between two rich parties, controlled by Israel, and anyone who doesnt have millions of dollars for the campaigning..."

Answer 5

The problem is that democracy does exist, it allows people to convey their frustration as well as voting to get rid of the president. Unfortunately not enough people vote and therefore the moron gets in again.

Answer 6

Hell with democracy, if the world was in its current state of affairs thirty years ago, Bush would have been long gone. Million's of people would be at the white house lawn. This shi t has gone way too far

Answer 7

I think most americans feel that the US government isn't working for them anymore.

But any good democracy allows for freedom of speech. We were even complaining when Clinton was in office, and he was GREAT!

Answer 8

Because we don't have a parliamentary system where we can oust a party and their leader between terms of office.

You and those 70% you refer to have to wait until 2008 to try to change things.

Answer 9

Because in 2008, we will have a peaceful transition of power from one chief executive to another. We've managed to do that for the last 220 years.

Neat, huh?

Answer 10

Sure beats the hell out of me!! This has been going on for years. Whoever is elected, the other party trys to dig up **** on him all the time he is in office. We need to be more supportive of our President no matter what party he is from. This is called "UNITY"!! We need more of it! Thanks for asking this Question