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CMV: The United States is a failed democracy/republic.

I am going to use 4 metrics to explain why The United States fails as a representatives democracy (republic).

**1. The government does not represent the people**

When people are polled on issues a vast majority often in both parties are clear that they support specific issues which go against corporate interests and thus do not get passed.

The majority of people in both parties support the legalization of weed and the decriminalization of Drugs. When it comes up in ballot measures they pass, whether its in NY or Mississippi yet the federal government and state legislatures refuse to end the drug war.

90% of Americans support universal background checks to buy a gun. That means everyone gets a criminal background check and makes sure they do not have a history of violence or that they are posting about plans. Yet the Gun manufacturing lobby is against it and so it does not pass.

A majority of both Democrats and Republicans support Medicare for all as a policy yet big farma is against it so the government won't pass it.

A majority of people in both parties support climate action yet big oil is against it so nothing happens.

The government is controlled by big corporations not the people.

**2. The legislature draws the districts aka gerrymandering**

No other country has this problem, for whatever reason in the United States politicians get to draw their own districts and thus give them or their party an advantage over the other party. In the United states politicians pick their voters not the other way around.

There is no electoral commission in the majority of states. The party in power after the census can almost guarantee they control the state for the next 10 years.

**3. Voter suppression**

Yes I know in most other first world democracies they require ID, but they also provide that ID for everyone who is eligible to vote.

-closing polling places

-Mailing address requirements to disenfranchise native Americans

-Ban on people voting if they have been to prison

-Random ID requirements

-Arbitrary signature requirements

-selective voter purging

-Banning measures that make it easier to vote, like drive in voting

-No voter holiday

**4. Qualified Immunity**

The Police, Sheriffs and Judges are corrupts to the core they are above the law due having immunity because of their position. Police and Sherriff departments act like gangs who will extort, kill, and abuse citizens because they can. 1000 plus police killings a year. Hundreds of custody deaths. Judges take bribes aka "Campaign contributions" and work in cohorts with the police and private prisons. They have prohibitively high bail.

The use of plea deals to scare innocent people into pleading guilty to get a lesser sentence. The protests against police and the brutality shows against protesters looked just like Belarus, just like Russia, just like any other authoritarian nation.

Do we have elections and the power to change government? Yes, but so does Turkey yet I bet not many people would say they are democratic.
gpt
1) Voters directly elect almost every government official that you're talking about. Every two years, we elect a completely new House of Representatives, and we refresh 1/3 of the Senate. We get the chance to "fire them all" every 24 months. The fact that we don't do it suggests that they are in fact "representing the people" to a greater degree than you're acknowledging. Representing the people doesn't necessarily mean doing what the majority of them want. It means looking out for their best interests. If all they were meant to do was vote according to public opinion, we could just decide everything on a direct vote instead of bothering with a legislature. 

2) A legislature that is, again, directly elected. 

3) Much like there is next to zero evidence of voter fraud, there is also next to zero evidence of voter suppression. 

4) You're right about this one.