"...I never thought of our government being setup to purposefully slow decision making. That is rather ingenious and goes to show that even if there are problems (and what system is perfect?) that there is a lot of potential left in our system."
If you would care to refer to Civics 101, you would learn that with a Consitutional Republic rather than a pure democracy, the states decide (most of the time via popular vote) who they wish to cast their votes for. This is how the biased media can say, "Bush didn't get the most votes." without really lying about it. Bush did garner the most Electoral College votes, which is how a president is elected.
Secondly, by having such a political system, this allows cooler heads to prevail most of the time, rather then having a mob rule, or having a vocal minority ruling the country.
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