The USA is NOT a Democracy, It is a Republic….big difference
Democracy, one person, one vote
Look at the US Senate: a Senator from Wyoming represents approx 290,000 people, one from California represents approx 19,600,000
#2 Don’t confuse the Federal Judicial system and state systems. Trump was charged with 34 counts of violating NY State Law and prosecuted by the State. There are 50 states with different legal systems. It has nothing to do with the US system of Democracy. OJ and Cosby were tried for State crimes in Pennsylvania and California under their state legal systems,
#3 Free Speech/Freedom of the Press…this applies to Government action. Permits to protest are a local government issue, except if the protest is to be held on Federal land.
If you don’t like the lies told on a particular network, don’t watch. No viewers equals no revenue and they may go out of business, News organizations don’t have to prove truth of everything they report,
Being Devil’s advocate, why should American newspapers be restricted in what they print because hostages from another country are being held? You talk about ‘OUR” hostages and that applies to our unique status as Jews, but not to the vast majority of Americans.
#4 GUNS, I don;t think any private citizen in the US should have one, Proponents of the Second Amendment conveniently forget that it talks about a well organized militia, That means the national Guard. I have no objection to Guard members, law enforcement, Corrections offices having guns. I even would allow private ownership of long rifles and shotguns for hunting purposes in rural areas, but no semi-automatics or bumpstocks.
For those that claim they enjoy target practice. I would allow ownership of guns that must be kept locked up at a licensed gun range and never allowed to leave the premises,
#5 ELECTIONS
see my first comments, get rid of the Electoral College that makes the value of the voter in Wyoming work XXX ties one in California, NY or Florida.
Then: States, not the Federal Government decide who can run for office and who can vote. There is not a countrywide standard.
In CT, which I just left after more than 70 years. Convicted felons lose their vote, BUT after completion of their sentence, probation, ordered restitution they can petition for restoration of voting rights. Once a registered voter they can run for office. This the CONVICTED Mayor of Bridgeport who served 9 years in FEDERAL prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city got his vote back and was returned to office three times.
In some states, convicts can vote from prison, in others they never get their voting rights back.
The Supreme Court ruled this year that Trump could not be kept off the Ballot in Colorado, despite states havings these rights. If Trump was not seeking a Federal position the decision might have been different.
How to fix this? Constitutional Amendments, bt most fail. Remember the ERA failed to be ratified by the required number of states and women to not have equal rights across America. The ERA was enshrined into the MA, CT, NY and NJ constitutions decades ago,
Disclosure: I have practiced law for decades, I teach Government and Law
I don’t politic in the Coffee Room, but will explain the system and correct misstatements of fact and/or law.
Our US system has flaws not envisaged in the late 1700s, but it is ne of the best systems in the world.