The fact that the election of the U.S. president is so transparently undemocratic, combined with the ability of an aggressive president (e.g., Cheney) to ruin the much-vaunted balance of powers set up by the founders, shows how inadequate this structure is to support "democracy".

We might ask ourselves why voter turnout for elections has been so low in the last few decades.

Unless one lives in a "battleground" status there is not a huge incentive to vote for president. And there are a lot of forces at work who like it the way it is.

Posted at February 19, 2008 2:32 PM in response to Democracy in Pakistan, Despite Bush Policies