My mom used to say, “This household is not a democracy.”
But actually, that wasn’t quite true, because it was a democracy, it was just a flawed two-party system with a vastly unfair distribution of electoral votes. Oftentimes the general public was pressured to settle for the least objectionable of a series of unpalatable options. There were also powerful special interests that could obfuscate proper voting procedure and push pieces of legislation through without the electorate even noticing. Additionally it was incredibly hard to keep money out of politics and it seemed like all the major decisions were made by those with the most income. In fact, sometimes it hardly felt like a democracy at all. So I guess in a strange way it was the best democracy we could possibly hope for.
