Well, the guy was elected democratically, and democracy is supposed to work, right? Where did things go wrong? Why do people elect someone and then complain the person is bad? How do people choose who to vote for? What is even the point of complaining, what are you going to do? Elect someone else next time, so that the same thing happens? Revolt? Good luck with that.
What makes you think the world has ever been sane? Tell me what I'm missing, please.
Democracy was subverted with Citizen's United. Campaign finance regulation existed for a reason. We no longer have a sovereignty after it as foreign nations can purchase influence through PACs. In order to begin regaining democratic rule, we must regulate campaign finance again.
I’m not sure the logic that “he was elected democratically, therefore everything he does is fine and is what people wanted” is sound. I’m not sure why you do.
I'm only saying that, could it be that democracy doesn't actually work? It's not the first time Trump is the president, so he must have done really well for people to elect him again, right? He definitely was not impeached two times, right?
It's unclear how it was supposed to work in the first place as there is no basis upon which I can decide who to vote for given a number of strangers I don't know anything about. I also know next to nothing about history, politics, economy, law, et cetera. Candidates usually promise things that are easy to understand of course, but as we've seen time and time again there is no consequences for not following through.
Democracy does "work" in the sense that there is some causal, albeit not direct, relationship between votes cast and representatives elected, vis-a-vis voting for said representatives. Trump supporters voted for him, and his agenda, and are getting what they voted for. And under the American electoral system neither majority support per capita nor even a popular vote beyond a margin of error are required for success, because states and state electoral votes (which are biased to favor rural, conservative politics) determine the outcome.
The problem here is not democracy per se so much as the inherent biases in the American system which allow a minority of voters to hijack the process so long as they live in the correct states, and American culture in which the apathy and disgust towards government and politicians is so toxic that people literally cannot see a difference between any one politician and any other.
As for who to vote for, I mean, I'm not a huge fan of Kamala Harris or the Democrats but I don't think she would be doing half of the heinous shit that Trump currently is, so I would posit the apparently controversial thesis that y'all should have not fucking voted for Donald Trump. This was one of the rare elections in which there was a right choice and a wrong choice. Or, if you can't accept that, a greater evil and lesser evil.
But Americans chose the greater evil. Barring some revelation of electoral fraud, Trump was America's choice, fairly and legitimately elected within the rules of the system. Democracy worked as intended. This is the government Americans wanted. Now Americans just have to deal with it.
> and American culture in which the apathy and disgust towards government and politicians is so toxic that people literally cannot see a difference between any one politician and any other.
This was also pushed over decades by both a major political party and the most popular news network. It was deliberate cultural poisoning.
> Well, the guy was elected democratically, and democracy is supposed to work, right?
No, democracy is not supposed to "work" 100% of the time without fail. It obviously depends on the context, and the details of how that particular democracy is implemented.
