America Is Number One Analysis

If you watch the news you will see hear the voices. The voices that voraciously devour every tweet; the voices that tell of chaos and uncertainty that lie ahead for our democracy. But our democracy, the gold standard of democracies, should not be viewed this way. You might ask why America is hyped up to be so special and you might hear simply that America is number one. You might hear that we’re back-to-back World War Champs os of course we are the greatest. You, a foreigner. You, an immigrant. You, a refugee. You see, Americans have elected officials using relatively the same systems since the country’s inception. Americans have been following the same laws, the same constitution, albeit with differing interpretations, since white men in wigs …show more content…
This election cycle illustrated it for me; other cycles showed it to others. The democracy, the backbone of American politics, is not perfect. There are problems, yet Americans still champion our system and implant it in other countries. It is merely an imperfect system for an imperfect populous. In this glorified system, the one our hallowed founders created, how can someone who wins the majority of the vote not win the Presidency? How were we left with those two candidates (some of the least liked candidates in American history)? America is becoming a place where polarization is total and where political differences become defining features. Is this what those men wanted as they set out to create the laws of America for then and for now? Is this the tipping point or has the ship been taking on water, waiting for a wave to force people to jump overboard? Well either way, a wave came. The ship is flipped; people are realizing the gravity of “America’s Decision,” clamoring from the water onto the keel, attempting to right it; but they don’t have enough, they have too many Facebook posts, and not enough action. You’ll ask in your accented english, can we right this sinking incredible old ship, with 50 staterooms, and 318 million souls? I don’t know. See, some see no sinking at all, they saw sinking in 2008 and 2012, and today …show more content…
Many Republican primaries have winner-take-all elections where the voice of many voters in a state will be silenced at the eventual convention. In 2016, he won 46% of the vote in Florida, but received all 99 delegates. That means 64% of votes had no effect on the delegation whatsoever. The winner-take-all system makes sense had he been running in a gubernatorial election in Florida, but since these delegates are pooled with the delegates from all other states winning a state doesn’t matter as much. Moreover, as state lines dissolve with increases in transportation and the sharing of information, the way a state votes should not matter, just the individuals inside; this is a national election after all. In 2016, she was forced to the left in order to help sway some potential Bernie voters during the primary