General Discussion

the ignorance and gullibility of a large percentage of U.S. voters. Perhaps representative government needs some tweaks here and there. Over 77 million voters chose Donald Trump after he'd already served one disastrous term.

As we are right now as a country, are we really capable of effective self-governance? And is Trump exposing the weaknesses in our system? Well, we already know that the electoral college needs to go, but we still have tens of millions of people who know little or nothing about government and democracy.

Education certainly is an issue, but that could take a generation or more to fix and by then it could be too late. I don't know, I thought we were in the process of improving democracy, but it feels like we've taken a huge leap backward and no one seems to know how to fix it.