The Death Spiral of American Democracy: Why Every New Leader Is Worse Than the Last

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The United States, and the West in general, have long proclaimed themselves the most democratic countries in the world. Yet after more than two centuries of elections, the leaders they produce seem to get worse with each passing term. The core question is: what exactly has gone wrong with the American electoral system? The elected representatives no longer serve the people or the country; instead, they fight for the interests of the financial backers behind them.

The American electoral system is indeed in deep trouble—so deep and so entrenched that it has reached the point of “systemic rot.” The framers who drafted the Constitution in 1787 could never have imagined that the carefully designed republican democracy they created would, two centuries later, degenerate into what we see today: a “rich man’s game” that on the surface involves universal suffrage but is in reality completely hijacked by money, media, and party machines.

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