Why The US Is Not A Democracy

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People often assume that capitalism and democracy are synonyms, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Why is that? And what prevents the United States from being the democracy it claims to be?

Why The US Is Not A Democracy – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

Bar graph source
https://latana.com/democracy-percepti...
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Princeton study
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/d...
   • Corruption is Legal in America  


Representative government
https://books.google.com/books?id=GhA...
https://books.google.com/books?id=IFt...

James Madison quote
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/pri...

Liquid democracy
https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12065

Democracy at work
https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpn...

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