> these are the very ideas I've been complaining are part of the US's constitutional DNA in this thread, so we'll have to disagree
I think we agree. There is meat between the archetypal framework and the working, practical government. The framework is neutral. But the implementation details are not.
My core point is that more democracy = good is a misreading of American, and in fact world, history. We have a mixed system. Denouncing one system over another for being less democratic is thus a straw man.
