The Lie of American Democracy

After spending over a decade in the states and even becoming a citizen, I formed certain opinions about the American democracy that I believe need to be said.

First of, the government does not represent the people in any shape or form. Let's take about this from an election standpoint. When the united states was founded, candidates needed to travel to the constituents via horse and carriage. Due to that fact, a two year election cycle made sense. Moreover, no one was as rich as we have today. Now, we have internet, email and TV. Candidates have no shortage of access to the voters and yet the election still is 2 years. It gives time to create attack campaigns, spend millions on travel, coverage and papers. Not to mention the environmental impact, it is not needed and makes for wasted time on everyone's part. It leads to deviating from the candidate plan and qualification and into the realm of public opinion and causes a lot of conflict.

To make matters worse, the candidate collects donation primarily from very wealthy donors who have agendas and bills they want to be passed to benefit them. Naturally, the candidate needs to make promises to get votes and donations, but when they get into the office, who do you think they work for actually? If you guessed the wealthy donors, you are 100% correct. They will spend the majority of their term fighting for the interests of the wealthy donors and strengthen their position in their party. So when do they start working for the public? In about their last year in office. They pick up the slack try to pass a few minor bills, make noise to get votes again and then repeat.

The electoral college representatives can dishonor the votes of their state and vote for whoever they wish with little to no consequence.

Now let's talk about how the government supported programs are spent. There is no program that is structured that actually benefit anyone. The politicians somehow come up with outrageous proposals and strip them down that do nothing but harm most of the beneficiaries, provide no service or waste money. Ironically, there are perfectly fine solutions implemented in Europe, Canada, and even southeast Asia that no one see to care to learn from. Healthcare, education, retirement,... all are things people need and are completely destroyed by the government. Tax laws make no sense, and infrastructure needs a lot of help.

The US gets many young people to the army and then they struggle with the VA. Low income individuals do not know how credit score work and are not educated or helped with how to improve their lives. Police shoot victims in the street and racially profile people. People of color still treated as third level citizens and animals are treated sometimes better than people and no one in the government really cares.

That being said, I still love living here. It is a beautiful country and most people are friendly and you are treated in many ways like a human being.