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The United States is not a democracy. Power does not rest with the populous.
Electoral Democracy has four required mechanism: Ranked Voting, Lottery Option, Recall Mechanism, Randomized Districting. Neither the United States, nor any of it states, nor any of its cities or counties to my knowledge qualify as a democracy. The vast majority aren't even on the democratic spectrum. Top to bottom, we are electoral oligarchy. When you lack democracy, you lack consent of the governed, and your governments are not legitimate. They are both inherently and demonstrably corrupt.
We must move to install these democratic mechanisms in our local governments. We must entrench democracy.