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Published 10 March 2021
There is this TV show that has a slogan for its title, America’s got talent. You might as well say America’s got people, all kinds of characters – the good, the bad and the ugly. This mix makes the practice of its democracy exciting.
America’s democracy is turn-by-turn. This has been the case in the past decades and virtually over the centuries. It unfortunately occasionally degenerates into a situation of change of power between “good people” and “bad people”, thus polarising the citizens. After the good people have held power, the bad ones will struggle and take over, etc.