Originally Posted by
NE_Pilot
So then you were mistaken when you said “I think it is extremely undemocratic and unjust when a candidate who did not win the popular vote wins the Presidency”. If the US is a democracy (as you claim) then its elections must be, by nature, democratic. Yet you claim US elections are “extremely undemocratic” but are also well within the confines of the Constitution.
The US is either a democracy, and it’s elections are democratic or it is not and it’s elections are not. You cannot have a democracy with legally undemocratic elections.
I can see why you could think that I'm contradicting myself. So just to be clear: I have no doubt that the U.S. has a democracy. Not a direct democracy of course but a democracy nonetheless. I just think it's a flawed democracy that makes it possible for a candidate to become president when more people voted for the other candidate. I find that particular aspect of this democracy undemocratic.