IS VOTING IN THE USA A LIE? | DEMOCRACY VS A RIGGED SYSTEM 🇺🇸
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Just a tiny bandaid on a very big bullethole..... This is just chapter 1 in a long book about voting discrepancies in the USA. As always- be respectful in the comments because I don't want to moderate adults 😵💫
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00:00 Voting in the USA
00:54 Voter's registration information
02:16 Non-affiliated vs Affiliated | Closed vs Open
03:33 Public record, no Datenschutz, and no-anonymity
05:20 Photo ID
06:54 Voter registration deadlines
07:37 Jury summons
08:18 Gerrymandering
09:29 Political radicalization
10:21 Does the USA have a real democracy?
12:02 Don't forget to vote & subscribe
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As a European, this is a massive shock.........it is appalling. What a truly awful system. I am from the Netherlands.......
Having to declare a political allegiance and that being put on a public record is the opposite of a secret vote that most other democracies have by law.
You can just put down Republican and still vote Democrat in the elections though. It just sometimes influences what party primary you're eligible to vote in.
Compare it to Germany where you have to be a dues paying member to vote in party elections.
@@nichfra
I do understand the idea, basically preventing "superfans" of the opposing team to influence your primary election. The solution it, of course, to not have a two party system to begin with. If anyone can theoretically create a party/list and get their proportional percentage, there is no specific other "team" to manipulate.
This System is SCHEISSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody tempted to reflexively reply with "but we're a republic, not a democracy!", please gather here, form an orderly line, please.
A Republic is still a democracy and even _if_ the USA _were_ a proper republic, there's still no reason for voting to be this restrictive and convoluted...other than stopping people from voting.
Republicans intentionally make voting more restrictive than it needs to be in order to effect what Hayley is describing, to stop people from registering to vote and to stop them from voting.
The Federal republic of Germany was and is for sure more democratic than the German Democratic Republic, aka. East Germany, ever was during its ca. 40 years of parallel existence
Constitutional Republic…
I understand a republic to be a state in which a substantial fraction of the population has the right to vote and the remainder (also a substantial fraction) doesn't. In the Founders's original concept, the USA was a republic in which the enfranchised class consisted of land-owning White men. In expanding the franchise to almost all adults, the USA ceased to be a republic and became a democracy-but didn't give up all of the habits of a republic.
One can describe the Voting Rights Act as part of the struggle to force the Confederate Republic to become a democracy.
@@deliapayne1162 Every nation has a constitution no matter the form of governance. I don't understand what this distinction is supposed to mean.
In 1994 I moved to Florida from the northeast. When I went to register to vote there, the very helpful woman was happy to assist me. In doing so she clicked me off as a Republican. I stopped her and said, I wish to register as non partisan. She went on to tell me that I was then not allowed to vote in any primary. I then replied with the question, but I can still vote. She mumbled well yes but was very unhappy when I stuck to being non partisan. This was my first experience with doubting how free we are in the US and how perhaps we are not living in the best country in the world. Now my parents came from an EU country before I was born. They always told me of differences ( better and worse) in other countries. Fast forward 10 years and I moved to Germany….once again you realize just how as free ( if not more so)most other countries are and you see that other countries are better and worse than the good ‘ol US of A in various aspects. But voting is a huge issue there for sure on so many levels.
The US is now a fundamentally broken country. I'm from Denmark and when I visit the US I think of it as a 3rd world country in many ways: no healthcare for all, crumbling infrastructure, obliterated middle and working class having to work multiple jobs, homeless under every bridge, one of the worlds most corrupt political systems, etc..
What's the point? Now you give your actually useless vote to some German party that might mix with other ones as they please and an uncertain outcome.
I can understand that only party members are allowed to vote in party primaries. In fact I would be surprised if, say, a democrat was able to vote for a republican nominee and vice verse.
@@frankmitchell3594 That of course makes sense. The forcing someone to register for a particular party is not ok.
And in Germany (or most other European countries) you vote on a sunday which is free and mostly you need not more than 10mins for that. Compared to voting on a work day and queueing for hours while loosing money.
Nur bringt es kaum was in Deutschland zu wählen. Kann man auch gleich sein lassen. Am besten wandert man aus.
@@HelenaDammers
Blödsinn.
Aber Reisende soll man nicht aufhalten, sagte mein alter Chef immer …
@@christinehorsley und was hat es gebracht du besserwisserin?
I was partially aware of the US voting system but from your explanation I am astounded how undemocratic the system is, in supposedly the 'land of the free'. Here in UK we essentially have a system where you can vote (or not) for any candidate in your constituency. Those candidates may be affiliated to one or another political party and can indeed be independent. I vote for the person who I consider to be the best person for the job, mostly irrespective of political party but others may vote along party lines, there is no expectation that I should declare my allegiance to any party just to be able to vote as that would be undemocratic. It seems to me that the political parties in US are overly protective of their position, a stance that would more commonly be found in various communist states around the world.
As a U.S. citizen, I agree with this analysis 100%!
Thank you for speaking up.
@NotSoPhotogenic you should vote for a change!
Yes German mandatory registration of place of living also has you auto-registered for municipal, state and federal votes.
And having either a state ID card ("personalausweis") or passport is mandatory, drivers license is not comsidered official photo ID
Oh, and I,m usually not sure whom I'll actually vote for until I'm in the cabin making my cross (no voting machines here)
Usually I have my choices limited down to two parties when the day comes (of the up to 50 that may be on the ballot), but not having a definite favorite.
And also usually after a few weeks I have a hard time to remember which party I actually picked in the end ...
And the right to vote can not be stripped away from you, unlike in the US.
It's less about your photo, but your place of residence. The drivers license has no place of residence, but a passport has.
@@K__a__M__I In germany you can lose the right to vote when you commit certain crimes. But it needs a special judicial procedure.
@@qobide Yes, and I think it's only if you're found guilty of some quite rare 'political' crimes like trying to overthrow the government or to start a war.
Ive heard about this before, but each time i am more shocked!
Maybe you shouldn't listen to this propaganda and start educationg yourself about that topic.
@@HelenaDammerswhat do you mean? I have read up on the subject of voting in the USA in several newspapers (left and right leaning, but highly respected) and I have heard nothing here, that goes against what I have learned before.
Them: "Your vote counts!" and cites a mayoral election in a tiny rural town in 1832.
Me: ...
Whow, I am really impressed by the last two comparisons, you are a real Gerycan 🎉❤
I don't understand why US citizen with a previous conviction are not allowed to vote 🤔
All this so called democratic parties are criminals and even a president can be a criminal 😂😂😂😂 great US
Kudos to you for being vocal about topics like these. Not everyone has the intestinal fortitude to be authentic when expressing themselves. 💯
Wow, this was very informative and that does take the idea of the us being a democracy in a real sleasy ally.
That makes voting in the Netherlands look like the real democracy.
The government only know where you live and it will automaticly mail you your voting card and a list of all the parties and people of these parties you can choose from. And to help you out you get a list of all the voting locations in your village/town, but if it would fit you better to vote in another town or at the trainstation during a comute you can ente basicaly evere voting station that has your prefference.
No registration, no sneaky data fishing, nothing!
I had to laugh at "Vote for good people" 😂 as if the option's there 😂
good morning Hayley! I really appreciate that you talk about politics although it can be quite emotional or contraversial... you are really smart and educated and talk about it in an eloquent manner
Why? You can split all americans into 1. Never left the states. 2. Travelled as tourist abroad and 3. Studied, worked, expat lived abroad.
And 3. Are the muricans that are normal people.
Thank you for sharing your educated view on the status of democracy in America, it's in a sad state. Democracy is never perfect - thats part of the idea, there is always an element of chaos. I always use 2 indicators how healthy a democracy in a country is - freedom of press (ranking by World Press Freedom Index) you can see that the USA is way down on #55 which is sad. The other is the democracy index where you can see that America is not a full democracy anymore - officially flawed. You can see that it left to be on 2016 and not came back to be a full democracy since. Gerrymandering - Money - primaries polarized the society plus a bought Supreme Court which since then has no standing anymore in the population.
I hope that the next election will re-vitalise the democratic roots of America again - that those authoritarian power grabs will be voted out very clear. America is the indispensable power of freedom in the world still.
richtig cool solche eindrücke zu bekommen! Danke für diese Videos, Hayley
For my point of view there is another large different to Germany. In Germany we have a non-working Sunday. And ALL votes take place at Sundays, so everyone can take part.
Great point. If you work in. Hospital here, you still can’t get out to vote since they have problems with staffing in hospitals while you are gone to vote
@@patriciawebster56 In dem Fall macht man dann eben Briefwahl.
The US voting system is just a mess. But in a way it fits to the choices of candidates you have there. But kudos for bringing this up in your video!
What I don’t understand is why so little Americans have a passport. Isn’t it a part of being an adult, to have a passport. I wouldn’t be feeling secure without it.
Why do you need one if you never travel outside the US? When you have to prove you are who you say you are, you can use a birth certificate and/or social security number. It's a money-making scheme for countries that require people to have a passport when people never leave the country.
I should say a lot of people like to get on an airplane, or take long car rides to see another country. Public transportation to Canada and Mexico is nonexistent. The US only borders 2 foreign countries. It's not like Switzerland, where they share a border with Germany, France, Italy, and Lichtenstein (my husband will argue Lichtenstein is Switzerland). I lived in Switzerland for 5 years and it was a 3 minute walk to French border. For me to walk from my place now in the US to Mexico border it would take 42 days or 38 hours to drive. To walk from the center of Switzerland to the area I was talking about in France it would be a 2 day walk or 2 hr car ride.
@@jessicaely2521 And then you need ID to vote and don‘t have. If people got more use of their passport/ID card as it is in Europe (I was born in Lithuania, currently living in Germany), then it wouldn’t be a problem for voting.
Until I was 50 years old we could travel to Mexico or Canada without a passport. I did get a passport in 1972 in order to travel to Europe, but I really didn't need it for any other travel.
Been registered to vote for 26 years, not been summoned to jury once, really curious how different places pick that.
Jury service in UK is based on the electoral role, being a convenient list of all voting age adults, irrespective of age, gender or creed or political persuasion. The whole process seems to rely on a random pick of names such that in all my years I have never been asked to attend jury service. No-one ought to want to attend jury service as then it would imply that they had an ulterior motive that would not sit well with the concept of being a jury of peers without bias.
After Worldwar II the US wanted us in Germany to take over their political system with the majority voting system, but our wise founding fathers objected this plan and opted for a mixture of a majority and proportional voting system. Hence our political system needs most of the time a coalition of two or more parties. As a consequence it requires the willingness of the coalition partners for compromises and is therefore build on a broader base in society. The US political system with its electoral college and due to the majority voting system consequently two party system is outdated and needs a complete overhaul. Furthermore the system is fed with an obscene amount of money and therefore an easy target for inappropriate influences by wealthy people, businesses, and interest groups
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@@HayleyAlexis Yeah, I really liked it when you had it long.
Democracy is one man, one vote.
No. It is "Every (wo)man can vote". If there are only a handful people to choose from, then somebody else did a preselection for you according to his preferences and now you are asked to confirm his choice.
If being registered is mandatory and voting is a right, both should also be about as easy as getting a bucket of KFC chicken.
Huh now that is interesting. I always assumed that voting in the US is just as secret as it is probably most democratic countries. But now I understand why a lot of Americans don't bother to hide their affiliation. If you can find out anyway, why bother hiding it. But the thought of the vote not being a secret makes me feel very uncomfortable and unsafe.
I am not registered to vote and still have to do jury duty.
Good video. I agree with your view on "closed primaries" and data protection - in my case stating my party affiliation upon registering. For this reason, I finally let my registration for one of the political parties lapse. In my state, we have to register every year. The primaries in my state are not "closed", but the voter registration office gets a lot of information from a declaration of party affiliation. This year, finally, I declined to declare my party affiliation. For decades, I just assumed that confidentiality or data protection would insure that this party affiliation did not influence anything. Then my city clerk moved on to the district next door and strange things began to happen to my registration that nearly blocked my voting in 2020. In view of that experience, I did not mark my party affiliation for the federal election this time and am waiting to see if things get better. Because my state is gerrymandered to the absolute hilt, every vote counts even more than it justifiably should. So let's see if casting a vote under the party-affiliated radar makes things a bit easier. (?)
Hi! Schönen Himmelfahrtstag und ein schönes Wochenende und danke für das Video! Liebe, sonnige Grüße aus Hamburg bin❤😂
From somewhere, long ago, I received this advice for what to do if you're interviewed for jury duty but don't want to serve: State that you believe civilian witnesses more than cops, because it's considerably easier for cops than for civilians to get away with perjury. The prosecution team will get rid of you as fast as they can.
After this I'm not taking my voting rights for granted ever again, I'm participating in every referendum, vote or election from now on.
I knew the US had a nondemocratic system with the "electoral collage" aka "binary system" and gerrymandering, but the rest was an unknown, basically you only have slightly more choice than Russia (instead of person a Putin; you get person aa Biden or peron ab Trump, not much difference between them).
In Slovenia we take our ID to the polling station, but it's an ID everyone gets if you're a citizen you have that ID but demanding it when the state doesn't provide it (or at least make it readily available) is ridiculous. I can't believe there's modern day countries that still use that antiquated method (US, Canada, UK, Australia, ...)
Can independent countries not stop acting like colonies of the UK, since these voting systems are a remnant of colonial rule.
This video came at a great time, I just got my invitation to vote for the EU election a few days ago.
I completely agree with you regarding the idiocy of the closed primary system and party afiliation nonsense. I've been a registered independent ever since I becamse a citizen because I refuse to be affilitated with either of the two parties. I also think every American should have a photo ID and that this should be mandatory on voting day. It also should be a proper ID not a drivers license. Sorry. I don't care about the supposed difficulties people encounter in acquiring the necessary ID. I agree it sucks to be stuck on a jury. I've been on two my self and my wife is up for a grand jury starting tomorrow. But adulting is hard and if you are too lazy, immature, or whatever to accept the necessity of jury duty then I really don't care if you are able to vote or not. As for the problem of politicians catering to the raving nutball extremes at both ends of the political spectrum. I also agree there. I'm afraid American Politics can now best be described in a nutshell as... "Ugly and Stupid".
Hayley du hast so eine schone Stimme da hört man sich gerne sogar so ein Thema minutenlang an 🤗
awwww danke danke! Das ist wirklich ein nettes Kompliment!
I read recently that voting for issues can help..but...only if the issues you vote on are in alignment with the values if major party donors. If they aren't, there is almost zero chance of them being implemented.
You can get what you want, but only if a significant fraction of the ruling class wants it too. Gilens and Page proved statistically that the "will of the people", as an independent variable, has negligible effect on federal legislation.
Not exactly true for state laws. The governor and Congress in Florida was 1,000% against medical marijuana. Medical marijuana is now legal in Florida. This year they making it legal for everyone is on the bill. The governor and Congress doesn't support it. Most likely it will pass. Last election there was a law up for voting that would make it illegal for people to power their home only by solar panels. Solar panels weren't illegal, but those people would have to sell the electricity they made to the power company at a cheap rate and then buy the electricity back at 3x the rate. The governor and Congress was all for this bill to pass. The bill didn't pass.
When I went to high school, I took two semesters of American Government. It was required. At the time, that fact annoyed me, but since then, I have come to appreciate the fact that I took it. I learned a lot of useful things.
They did not teach me about the Electoral College or the two-party system, though. They did not teach me a _thing_ about the electoral processes in _other_ countries and I have come to discover that they actually let me down on that.
Our entire system is fixed. The Senate should be either abolished or be proportioned by population.
Regarding that thing about primaries I would like to comment:
primaries in the USA serve to determine a candidate within a party. However those primaries are conducted in a very public way and could be seen as part of an election campaign. Asking voters to stick to their vote isn't exactly unreasonable since participating in a primary means taking influence on a party in a significant way.
That isn't really different in Europe. However, candidates are determined by parties and only party members are allowed to vote for one or more candidates of that party for an election. But parties are obliged to protect the privacy of their members' data. Until recently the private address of a candidate could be found on ballot papers, but even that has been changed now. At least that's how it's working in Germany.
Once a party has made its decision on its cadidate(s) the rest of the procedure is completely in the hands of public administration - except campaigning. For elections to state parlaments, federal and European elections we receive a notification. For local elections we receive our ballot papers with our election notification (incl. opaque envelopes).
To cast our vote on election day, we have to bring our valid personal ID card (or valid passport) and the election notification.
If somebody forgot to bring his ballot paper(s) he can receive them at the voting location. The voting location is predetermined.
The election notification can be used to apply for ballot papers for postal voting and to ask for a different voting location if there's a specific personal reason to do so. That's usually handled quite liberally. Election days are generally on sundays to ensure everybody can participate.
Notification of voters is based on the registration of primary place of permanent residence. Our personal ID card gets changed accordingly.
As a result German citizens don't have to register for any election except they've moved abroad and didn't register a new address of permanent residence in a destination country - before moving at home or after moving at and embassy or consulate.
Hayley, once you go through the jury selection process, they will NOT bother you again for many years. So far, here in Ohio, the sitting President will no qualify to be on the ballot for the general election in November. (it's related to some mess in Ohio law about a deadline for a political party to declare their candidate) .... The Ohio deadline is before the DNC convention. The legislature here currently is in the process of creating an "exception" for this year but there appears to be some "problems." If you ever end up on a jury, you will learn some things about "our" system and some of the many pit falls.
In Germany you are mandated to register your local site of residency with the Einwohnermeldeamt, the residents registration office. After you have done that once you will automatically get your voters election reminder, your voting ID, and an explanation about the registered parties and party member lists.
There's no more need to register for voting. Thanks to the specific district borders gerrymandering is nearly impossible in Germany as both the local community borders are directly linked to the registered residents. Gerrymandering also makes little to no sense in a system where the idea of winner-takes-it-all or first-through-the-gate does not exist. All percentages attributed to either individuals of a party member lists, or a direct party vote are all tallied up, and spread around as a percentage. This breaks down how many seats are distributed to a party, this also determines from top to bottom the listed party members among those seats.
Thus gerrymandering makes very little to no sense at all here, as no single person combines all votes onto them if they win.
As such the USA can at best be described as an oligarchy with minor democratic roots. And that is being very generous.
I guess 1 problem in the US is, that in 80% of all electoral districts there is no competition, because it is safe in the hand of one or another party.
So the person to vote for doesn't fear the competitor of the other party. But the competitor of the own party ...thats the only, who can become a thread.
And thats a real problem.
10:22 "We don't have a real democracy in the USA."
11:00 "So many American have been sold a lie that they are voting for their rights and for their freedoms, but what they fail to realize is that those things have already been decided for them with or without their vote."
My two favourite political scientists are George Carlin and C.B. Macpherson. Carlin said: "You have no rights. You have owners. They own you." Macpherson went into the subject in somewhat greater depth. He wrote a very short but mindblowing book, "The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy". In it he explains that modern democracy was created in England toward the end of the 17th century to secure the power and privilege of the English oligarchy. Their first cunning trick was to create an enfranchised class and give it the form of power without the substance. Their second, about 125 years later, was to persuade the better-paid and more-skilled workers that they were not workers but "middle class". Their third, as Chomsky and Herman explained, was to impose limits on the subject matter of debate and encourage vigorous dispute within those limits. "Divide and rule" is an ancient strategy, but never before had its victims been induced to interpret the fact of their division as evidence that they were free. When you understand this, you will understand that *democracy is working very well in terms of its actual function*.
For Americans and others who are reluctant to read books, I provide the link to "The Story of Mouseland", a vivid illustration of electoral democracy given by Tommy Douglas in 1944: www.douglascoldwelllayton.ca/mouseland
I'm Irish and we only ever vote on Election Day; AND we only rarely have Postal Voting AND Election vs Election a greater percentage of Irish People vote in Elections that US Citizens. But in the US, there are ques outside Polling Places whereas in Ireland, it would be very rare to find a que outside a Polling Place - so clearly, there are not enough Polling Places in the US - and if you do not provide enough Polling Places, you are clearly attempting to make it harder to vote...
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You can change a lot of these things in your state, however. They are not cast in stone. In CA where I live we went to a top-two primary system at least a decade ago. So in the general the top two from the primary run against each other regardless of party.
Same with gerrymandering. We got rid of gerrymandering by turning redistricting over to an independent commission.
Same with voter ID, voting by mail, winner-take-all and most other aspects of voting are controlled at the state level.
Florida, like California, allows the people to gather signatures and place propositions on the ballot directly. Many of these changes were put on our ballot by propositions. So get out there and start gathering signatures, Hayley!
People in Germany have a lot of things in common with the UK and the USA. But our political and legal systems has been influenced significantly by France, particularly Napoleon (Code Civile). Possibly that's true for most of continental Europe. And even then some things have been adopted with quite some delay and changes. As a result, the political systems of the UK and the USA are looking a bit archaic - at least to me.
Oh to be that free.
Voting in the USA is like voting which old geezer you want to promote genocide directly or indirectly in foreign countries while bailing corporations instead of creating a sustainable social net for its citizens.
😂😂 it isn't funny but damn.... basically
I think the closed primary stipulations are not so much different from the German system. In Germany you have to be a member of a party (similar to the party affiliation) in order to have a say in choosing candidates of _your party_. And even harder, you have to be accepted by the party leadership. So not only announcing your affiliation but getting accepted AND paying dues to the party. So that is much less strict in the USA and less costly. And being able to change your affiliation without problem (within the limit of doing that 29 before elections) makes it easier. I have heard of die hard party members registering for the opposing party in order to meddle with those candidate selections. And after voting in the primary change back to their "real" party. That would work not as easy in Germany.
In Germany most of the voters are not members of a party. So they have no say in the list of proposed candidates of any party.
"in the end it's not about who has voted for whom, but who counted the votes" - Stalin
So how can you as a US citizen change affiliation status from party-affiliated to nonpartisan? How to do that before the election you registered for?
Ist es möglich, bei meiner nicht bevorzugten Partei mich zu affilieren, dann in den Vorwahlen den wahrscheinlich schwächsten Kandidaten zu wählen, dann mich nonpartisan zu machen und dann bei der eigentlichen Wahl für meine bevorzugte Partei zu stimmen?
Also, you have explained Closed Primaries in this video. On the map at 2:39 other states are shown as having Open Primaries, Partially Open, Partially Closed, Top 2 and Top 4. What does all of that even mean?
You just go into the coter registration office and fill out some paperwork. I changed my party affiliation and it was a piece of cake. It sucked I had to do it during work hours, but I did it.
You can do it online or in-person. It is relatively easy but a lot of people a) don't know you actually have to do that or b) forget
3:02 "Non-affiliated was a way for me to just ignore the primary elections and ... vote for the presidential candidate"
You never voted for the presidential candidate. Only the members of the Electoral College do that. You were merely asked to tender your opinion on the matter. Granted, because of some post-Founder adjustments to the system, your opinion has weight ... provided you can find a polling station in a Black neighbourhood (heh, heh).
Good morning Hayley! First off.. I like that blue blouse you have onn today.. Well I got mail actually YESTERDAY for the German voting bureau here in Zweibrücken for European parlimential and the city council. But you`re right.. you don`t have to do any voter registration. But here`s my take on the US political system: First: GET RID OF THE ELECTORIAL VOTING SYSTEM! It shoud be simple: One man, one vote.. No electorial numbers like the 270 you need to secure the presidency BS. It`s funny how Bush 43 won in 2000 with that BS system in place.. Trump won in 2016 when Hillary had the the poplar vote by 3 million votes. So the BS electorial syssten ruled in favor of Team Red - not once - but TWICE. Hmmm..
Then: let`s face it: 2 two party system doesn`t really cut it anymore - Hell, looking at the Europeans with the coalitions. MAYBE that could work in the US.. because we are so diverse and the demographics have changed over the years that MAYBE the US should look into how the Europeans do it - and attempt doing it that way. I don`t think that EITHER Team Red or Blue is broad enough to cover all the issues at hand. I think it`s worth a shot to try coalitions with multiple parties because with 330+ million people over there.. everybody has different viewpoints.. so why not give it a try?
That‘s a strange take. A party elects their candidate, people who don’t belong to that party have no say about the way the party is running their affairs. It’s the same principle in EVERY country I know. Why? Because otherwise the people from the opponent party will help elect the candidate that they think they could win against in the actual election.
You don’t expect the local sports club to let you elect their coach or team president, do you?
The ACTUAL problem is the complete lack of privacy and the tendency of states strike you out of the voting registers and the lack of automatic registration.
Jury duty is crazy per default. In most Europe being a layman judge is a political position you need to run for and be elected and you get a decent compensation, so you are combining that with your regular job. Most layman jurors enroll at least some law classes to get some idea about what they are doing (and those classes are almost for free).
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Thank you for this incredibly important video. It sounds very similar to what's described in the Second Thought video 'Why The US Is Not A Democracy'
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Logically, primaries should be closed. A primary is a matter internal to a party. Why should outsiders have the right to meddle in it? The logic is broken down by gerrymandering, which in most states has been done to the point where the primary is the only election which counts. So yes, your vote becomes public as soon as you register as a party member. But then, Americans treat their party affiliation as their tribal identity and actually proclaim it, so this is a moot point.
Concerning gerrymandering: Berthold Brecht satirically asked, "Would it not be simpler for the government to abolish the people and elect another?" Little did he know that Elbridge Gerry had already invented the method for doing so.
I don't understand your problem with closed primaries. Primaries are used to help select the candidate for a party. But thats all. When it comes to election day you can vote for whatever candidate is on the ballot or maybe even write one in. But you are not restricted to only vote the candidate for the party you are registered for.
In Germany it's only the members of registered party that nominate the candidate(s) for the ballot. Prospective voters have no chance to participate unless they join the political party.
Open primaries are a rather absurd concept for me. Why should anybody be allowed to determine the preferred candidate of a political party? If i don't like a party, i may vote for candidate in a primary that has the least chances against my preferred candidate from my preferred party.
I guess the reason you don't understand why I dislike closed is the same reason I don't understand why you dislike open. I don't think it matters if person x votes for person y- even if it is out of spite- it is their wasted vote. This constant fear that everyone (your fellow citizens and countrymen) is out to get you and sabotage you is ridiculous.
the one real democrathy is Swizzerland!!!!!!!! ❤
Ik vind de VS helemaal niet democratisch!
You make it sound like if you're registering as a Democrat you wouldnt be allowed to vote for a Republican in the actual election. Party affiliation is literally just for the party primary and in Germany inner party elections are also just held by party members that even have to pay dues.
I would say not more then in DE 🤢
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and I agree..
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 thx :D
Please explain.
Why, because you don't like the result? Too bad, that's called democracy!🤷♂
@@arnodobler1096 Democracy, if some Parties do not get seats in Parliament (vice präsidents in parliament/Bundestag) etc wich they should get.. Or Money , each Party get around 100 mio € per yearfor their foundations (Parteien-Stiftungsgesetz) were the higgest court has decided the government had to pay to the Opposition, but they dont! (more than 100 mio €!). The Verfassungsschutz (Defense of Constitution) is used by the government to harm the political opponend, and the head of this department officially admids that (so embarrassing dumb). Mrs. Faeser Innenministerin (secretary of the interior) wanted to change the legal Basis, to that they can accuse somebody and this Person had to testify its innocence :D (Beweislastumkehr) such „Democrats“ :D and if you think, that the main TV Stations, such as ARD & ZDF that we have to pay for with an extra fee and wich are the most expansive governmental TV stations in the world as far as i Know of about 9.000.000.000 €) report neutral and independently, than i can not help you man.. sorry for my bad english and there is a whole lot more and if you realy interested in this, youcan easy look it up. Now in the EU Election at Mr. Krah (Politician of the Opposition) e.g. there was a Chinese Informant.. well known more than 10 years to the defense Department of Constitution and now they came up with this 6 weeks bevor EU election and want to sue Mr. Krah for this at least make bad publicity with this. The Informant had moreover pass the Test of the EU Parliament and the Government had let ihm work for more time then necessary and harm our Country, just to wait and reveal his identity shortly bevor election. Who is to blame here? Who had the knowledge + Equipment? And please read something about the Corrective report, initiated and paid by government, to tell lies about the opposition. I love the democracy, but this behavior of the actual Government is insane!
Hi Süße, wie Kurt Tucholsky so treffend sagte: Wenn Wahlen etwas ändern würden, wäre diese verboten.
Mein Lieblingsaphorismus von Tucholsky ist: des deutschen größte Pein ist es, vor einem Schalter zu stehen. Des deutschen größte Freude ist es, hinter einem Schalter zu sitzen!
Ich glaube, Emma Goldman hat ihm mit diesen Satz vorgekommen.
Georgia gov. Brian Kemp signed more voter suppression into law. I vote in all elections and simply ignore jury summons. Locals REALLY do count. Besides, courts always seem to find someone who is fit and handy capable. Follow PoliticsByTabitha. Smart. Consise.
If you really want a headache, research the electoral college versus popular vote. 🫣
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I already know and t makes me mad....