Originally Posted by
germanaviator
I think it is extremely undemocratic and unjust when a candidate who did not win the popular vote wins the Presidency. And that's regardless of which candidate may benefit at any given election.
Oh, and of course the U.S. are a democracy, contrary to what you stated. Just not a direct democracy. Most democratic countries aren't either, by the way.
If the President winning an election without the popular vote is, as you put it, “extremely undemocratic”, yet in keeping with the Constitution, is the US then a democracy? How could it be a democracy if it’s elections are “extremely undemocratic” by nature. Your own words are contradictory.
To answer another question you posed, a “direct” democracy has no protection for private property rights, as majority rules in a “direct” democracy. The majority votes to take your stuff and it is so.