U.S. Democracy and Elections

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In this paper, the writer discusses the U.S. election system. The writer argues that the election system is mostly corrupted by partisanship and money.

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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. For generations, American politicians, media and high school social studies teachers have trumpeted our form of government as the epitome of democracy. Words like freedom, democracy and liberty have been thrown like a blizzard of self-righteous spears at any other countries' methods of governance that diverge from ours, particularly those societies who fail to reflexively add and the ... "

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