How is it that America is the example of democracy,?

Question

yet our president didn't win with the majority of the public's vote?

Answer 1

You all need to recognize two things. First, the US is a Democratic Republic which makes it a REPRESENTATIVE Democracy, NOT a Democracy in the sense of Ancient Greece.
We as citizens do NOT vote on everything, our representatives (who we vote on) do.

Secondly, our president is elected by the electoral college. Some states electoral votes go to the person with the most popular vote, others get split and others just go at whim almost (or so it seems). The president has NEVER been elected by popular vote. Harry Truman is the most famous of that example where the papers even published that his opponent had won even though Truman got the electoral votes and thereby president.

There is NO true Democracy in this world. However, even with it's flaws, the US is still the FIRST and BEST at government. While many may disagree during the tenure of one political group or the other, we all still have a say (even though many here who gripe have not exercised that say). Even those countries with prime ministers most often vote for the party which then has a prime minister, not the other way around.

SO, we still ARE the best example of democracy in modern times, especially since the president doesn't need the majority of the votes.
(and please people, stop asking these kinds of questions, I can't stand Bush and hate having to come to his defense).

Answer 2

Examples Of Democracy In America

Answer 3

First off our president is elected through the electoral college which the president won the vote through. Second, we are not America we are the USA or United States of America. Third, democracy is government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system, hence the electoral college. Note our citizens are not forced to vote or not killed for voting how they want. They are free to vote however they choose. That is democracy. Yes we are an example. Can you name others? If the USA is such a terrible place why are we constantly flooded with immigrants? Don't hate us because we are free join us and our freedoms. BTW democracy never says the best man wins only that everyone had the opportunity to vote and many choose not to vote. That is the sad part about taking our democracy forgranted.

Answer 4

The united states is obviously not an example of a democracy. But it is not even a democratic republic. At the most it can be described as a oligarchic republic where the public is offered a list of candidates who are temperamentally and ideologically selected by a small group of power elite to do their bidding. The people vote to rubber stamp one of pre-selected candidates thereby legitimizing as democratic what is really continuing role by wealthy autocrats who believe they know better than the people in running the country. The entire system is a hypocritical lie. The most tragic thing is that the average american patriotically gives taxes to spread this lie to the rest of the world at the barrel of a gun rather than improving his own community life.

Answer 5

America do not claim to be a democracy. America is a Republic. Remember the phrase from the Pledge To The Flag, " And to the republic for which it stands."

Answer 6

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How is it that America is the example of democracy,?
yet our president didn't win with the majority of the public's vote?

Answer 7

Calling America - now, the current America - a Democracy, is quite an embarassment.

Anyone who thinks that when Bush says "Democracy", he is actually practicing it, please do not use his example.

America USED to be a Democracy (actually a Republic), but both have similar meanings. That was the basis on which the country was founded, and what the Constitution was based on.

However, most of the freedoms that we, and our parents, grandparents, etc.... used to take for granted, no longer exist. Maybe in name only.

Too bad.

Answer 8

You must use a different scale of measurement. What I saw was a 63 million to 56 million people win. By my calculations that is a majority win.

Answer 9

America is the perfect example of a democracy - against all common sense, an idiot was elected twice. I wouldn't have it any other way. He may be a monkey, but he's their monkey. Better than here in the UK, stuck with an unelected monarch.

Answer 10

You're not a citizen. What do you know?

He won the majority of the electoral college vote. The electoral college was establish by our founding fathers to prevent the less populated states votes from becoming irrelevant.