Comments by "Night Raven" (@GiRR007) on "Joe Scott" channel.

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  22. Freedom and democracy aren't the same thing. The united states prides itself as being the most free country in the world but not the most democratic. It was never meant to be completely democratic, we lean more towards being a republic than a democracy. When it comes to freedom indexes they are not accurate when it comes to representing how much "freedom" a country allows its citizens, considering they have a myriad of different standard for freedom. The freedom index measure things like free college and free health care as "freedoms" when those are not what freedoms are, those are privileges'. Where as it still gives high marks to countrys that severely curtail peoples right to free speech. Freedoms is the ability for an individual in a country to do what they want without the government bearing down on them and in America as a country leads the world in that. In regards to money in politics can you really blame people for that? It use to be that trying to buy and bribe politicians in power with money was basically worthless as they didnt have the power to actually do anything that could influence things on that kind of level but ever since we have given the government more power and control over peoples lives. Of course things like lobbying are going to become more prevalent, as they should since people dont WANT government interfering in their lives and will do what they can to make sure they can keep their freedom. When it comes to different voting systems I feel like the more complicated you make voting the less voter turn out you get but thats just an assumption. Also lets not forget, a vast majority of the countries that have high voter turnouts and high "democracy" rates have MUCH smaller population sizes than in the united states so obviously people there are going to feel like their votes matter more because their votes ACTUALLY DO matter more, up to 60 TIMES more infact. Try to imagine how much people would feel like their votes mattered in those countries if literally ALL of the nations in the European union were 1 country and had to vote for things that effect each other, do you still think their democracy scores would be as high even by their own standards? That they would keep their high voter turn out rate? Because I seriously doubt they would, and thats what its like in the US. The electoral college as a pivotal part of the US voting system and voting would become much worse as it descend into basically mob rule and civil war. Jerry mandering is pretty awful though.
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