(01-09-2019, 04:52 PM)B2hibry Wrote:

(01-09-2019, 01:51 PM)TJBender Wrote: North Korea? Really? Dude, you're reaching hard. NK hasn't been a democracy, direct or otherwise, since before Kim Jong Un's grandfather was around.

Comprehension dude. Those are examples of distressed governments that have Presidents elected by popular, albeit intimidated vote. There was no direct country comparison of governments inferred. It's about election "fraud."

But to your point. Yes, North Korea or the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) actually holds elections. Get rid of the Electoral College and watch how are system morphs with intimidation and elections just become a formality.

That's actually not a bad point, if you look at countries that have presidents and elect them by popular vote. Almost all of them have had coups in the last 100 years - look at Brazil and Nicaragua, they have had several.  Now, most of the military dictators were benevolent and stepped down after a free and fair election with no further intimidation.  But you never know what you're going to get with a military dictator.  Any of them could be the next Mao or Kim Il Sung.

Then again, we are one of the only countries that makes our military swear an oath to the Constitution.  Most others make them swear an oath to the nation or the people.

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