It's completely undemocratic. Public opinion has no influence on policy whatsoever. Most Americans are in favour of Medicare for all, of legal abortions, of rising taxes on corporations and the most rich people, and much much more. But study after study shows that public opinion has no influence on policy, as in, they're not even correlated.

[–] meekah 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that's less of a problem with the way a representative democracy works, but rather with corruption and thus capitalism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I wasn't referring to the concept of representative democracy itself, I was referring to the particular case of the US (though I'd extrapolate it to most liberal democracies in western countries)