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Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, Bill Clinton, and John Kennedy were all Democrats who won their elections without winning a
majority of the popular vote (IE they won it, but the total sum of voters for other candidates were higher). Woodrow appointed 3 Justices, Clinton appointed 2, Kennedy appointed 2, and Truman appointed 4. Between them, they appointed a total of 11 Justices, but according to you they should all just be thrown off the bench.
Well, one just was, but Breyer is still there. We could always throw him off the court if you'd like, since he doesn't fit your criteria.
If you
really want to talk about the biggest mistake that America ever made when it came to Democracy, then you'd need to talk about how we're a bunch of fucking idiots who thought that it would be a good idea to
directly elect our Senators into office and expect them to properly represent all of the
millions of people in their states, instead of using the system prior that was made-up of local assemblyman and representatives.
Senators
used to be chosen by state legislators. The House had
districts and you used to be able to look at your local assemblyman and go, "Hey why is that fucking asshole in office?" if the dude that you sent to D.C. wasn't doing anything to benefit you or represent you. You weren't one vote in a sea of
millions, you were one vote in a sea of
thousands, so if your Senator was fucking up and your local politician wasn't helping, you got to go vote his ass out in two years and shove in a
new guy who
wouldn't vote for the other guy, ousting your Senator in as little as two years if he's being a cunt.
That was one of the key features of the original Constitution, and then someone lied to us. Someone told us that cutting out the middle man and using a direct Democracy to elect our Senators was a good idea. We believed them, and on April 8, 1913, we ratified the 17th Amendment. It was probably one of the biggest mistakes that America's Republic had ever made, and almost no one knows that it even happened, anymore.
We're not getting less Democratic, we're getting
more Democratic, and that's the
problem. Direct Democracy
does not work. It completely abolishes the government's ability to even
see the individual, let alone work in a way that benefits them. I am not the slightest bit interested in a tyranny of the majority.