And we are, Benjamin. For you the importance is placed on the structure of culture and government, and I do not see a subject matter there.
We start with all we start out with and come to an outcome, right away and later in time, such as 1776 and today. Yet the point is that a lie entered the framework, and did so fairly quickly after the USA became its own nation.
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What I do like with your reply is that I see you glue two components together where I would not do that.
I would have said:
1/ The US Constitution is supposed to empower the people, yet particularly the individual States made sure to put winner-take-all in place at all levels of our democracy.
2/ Winner-take-all has so many losers in the voting booth that this depresses the number of people coming out to vote. I can back this up.
I hope you see that you saw the link, but you went from A to D in one step. I followed A, B, C and D instead.
As soon as voters have more say in the voting booth's outcome, then more people will flock to the voting booth.
All Senators in their seats in 2006, on average, won their seat with less than 60% of the votes. Therefore, more than 40% of the voters went home empty-handed. Do that five times, not winning. Would you show up a sixth time?
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Poverty:
The bottom tier in the USA is not represented at any of the tables.
The bottom tier in Denmark is represented at all tables.
That explains why our bottom tier gets 1.8% of our gross (income, consumption, wealth), and the Danish bottom tier gets 3.8% of their Danish gross.
We are not a true democracy, and the Founding Fathers are not to blame. They put a real democracy in place, and we don't have it.
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Here in short, the US Constitution states the following:
Federal level: Concentration of powers
State level: XXXXXXX
Local level: We The People
So, we see that the Federal level is indeed less than a perfect democracy. Benefit: it is strong that way.
Still, this is what we find in place:
Federal level: Concentration of powers
State level: Concentration of powers
Local level: Concentration of powers
The State powers that be put restrictions in place that the US Constitution declared verboten (see 14th Amendment where States are not allowed to abridge privileges of the citizens of the United States).
The States put restrictions in place where they were not allowed to put restrictions in place, most obviously so at the local levels.
