The conundrum for the U.S citizens is that in order to change the Constitution the minorities that hold the power would have to willingly give up power in order for the changes to be made. That's not going to happen. Billionaires like Harlan Crow and the Koch brothers have bought the Supreme Court and now they get to influence (propagandize) the ignorant ones that hold oversized power in rural states. This is how you end up with someone like Trump as a candidate. He's transactional to the highest bidder and doesn't have an ounce of civil servitude.

This video would be so much better without the background music and sound effects. Your voice and intonation is fine and pleasant to listen to on its own, no need to artificially dramatize with all that generic sound crap :).

I assumed that immigration meant immigration from Africa. That is the only immigration that I hear about. Turns out Eastern Europe is also moving.

Beautyfull,thank you both.

The constitution works perfectly as it was intended. To keep the rule of a Minority. - elite... So they can place their puppets "in power".

We are millions of Europeans who for decades have been asking why USA doesn't change itself inself into a real democracy.

Minority is equal to Rich people.

The constitution was created by and for white men. It even stipulated who was a literal slave. This wasn’t a metaphor. They actually owned hundreds of African slaves. It’s adorable how people get huffy when I point this out.

The constitution isn't broken. The problem is every american is using it wrong. America needs to copy how other countries follow a constitution. Americans have no idea of the history of constitutional governance and treat their constitution as if its a holy book meant to be worshipped and followed without question.

Let's get this channel to 1mil subs

Man, this Swedish guy gets it. Good summary of where we are at. I don't see us finishing out the century with the constitution we have.

The American way of life is the brightest, when people put their differences aside, and work together, to build, repair, grow, thrive. Any politician who disagrees with this is not cut from the same cloth as I.

The constitution makes America and people ignoring it is what is fucking shit up and people who want Americans centralized

I have a question, why you post putin face on syria, when western european countries were also involved in the Syrian civil war. Iran as well. Or you maybe think, there are black and white? bad and good?

Tak for en god video

Regarding majority rules - If you look at EU parlament then you find out that small states also has big and not proportional representation. This is normal in Federal System like EU or USA. Other example - in UK for example party that win elections almost never get 50% votes. Usually betwen 30% ad 40% is enough to get majority in parlament. In 2024 Labor party get 33.7 and take control over UK. Regarding guns and money in politics this is a problem with interpretation of constitution. Not constitution itself. Filibuster is not part of constitution but just a normal law - Senat rules. Overall constitution was change 27 times. So it is possible to change it and adjust over time.

so many people trying to excuse this by the amount of tax paid. But it makes a hughe difference, if only 1 person spends money in a society, or if thousand of people can consume and grow the local economy. its not only about tax

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This is pure bullshit!! Europe best days are way,way way behind them all!!! The European union is a joke!!!

Great video. Really informative. Very high quality content.

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The USA constitution (please stop calling It Amaricas because this is a colonialist name) allowed for slavery, denied women the vote and whatnot. Later It allowed genocide of first nations, Jim Crow laws, labour exploitation.... The USA can believe their own propaganda, but their Revolution was simply gaining independence and creating a Republic, hardly anything else changed. Look at the electoral college, supreme court, need to register for vote, death penalty, lack of natuonal health service... You name It. Oh, and guns and shootings everywhere. Enjoy.

It is not that US democracy is flawed. It is that democracy is flawed to begin with. Do we even want democracy? Is majority rule good? Is it fair that a majority is allowed to rule everyone who is not in majority? Or can we have a system that creates individual freedom, even from the will of the majority of the people? I think we need to start considering real freedoms, even freedom from the majority. Also, if we want democracy, we should at least have some form of direct or liquid democracy. Representative democracy becomes corrupt and don´t work at all I would say.

you're showing your ignorance for America. This is on purpose. It's fairly common to win popular votes but lose electoral votes. If we didnt have the electoral college, NYC LA and Chicago metros would effectively decide what the entire nation did. The founding fathers did this so that a small group of hive mind cities wouldn't dictate how all of america is run. Should it be updated? sure, to an extent. I think the best would be to have the votes for each state split up into the constitute counties votes so that its not an all or nothing system per state. They do this in like 2 states already and it makes much more sense. Popular vote serves to effectively run the nation as if it were just a handful of cities even though the rest of the country makes city life possible and they coexist. I live in a city mind you and have no desire to ever live in the country.

DOG bless america

it's not democrazy, it's republique!!

This is tremendously obvious to most anyone outside of America. However, the supreme court and its ability to use the constitution as the final arbiter of justice has reinforced the idea that no change needs to ever be done to said constitution. Meanwhile, I happily live in a neighbouring country that has a constitution that was written in modern times, with the full knowledge of the pitfalls of the American constitution. Nevermind how countries with similar constitutions have long since seen its weaknesses exploited, leading to outright tyranny and grotesque mockery of democracy in general. Primarily Germany and the Philippines as examples. The irony of course, is that on its current course, outright revolution, leading to complete reform of the government, is the likeliest outcome instead of a more calm and reasoned re-writing of that document with better modern philosophy.

"sword" is pronounced "sord"

The US is a Republic not a Democracy,and one of the main differences is that Republics does protect minorites where as in a Democracy there is no such thing as one group being proteced from the rest. So of course the US is ran by a minority,in this case the rich who own almost all means of production and other assets, i don't see why people are so surprised by it.

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If they split the country in half, like you said, the red states would turn into a Mad Max-like hellscape inside of a week.

Since 30 years the history books of primary schools do not teach or claim Christoph Columbus discovered the US, because many nations have been living there for very long before Columbus. Didn't you learn this in 30 years???

This is straight communist propaganda, an absolute nonsense. Thank god that this far left ideology is not a mainstream, and will never ever be. You want to limit billionaires just because you dont have enough, you envy to them. Of course, those who have nothing want a piece of a cake, ideally for free, but thats not gonna happen. Do you want more wealth? Work hard, start business, take risks and responsibility and maybe you will end up wealthy. Or maybe not, this is how it works. The "free lunch" doesnt exists.

While I agree with much of what is here, I disagree that we need to alter the first amendment in order to allow campaign finance reform. The problem lies not with the amendment, but with how it has been willfully misrepresented. In fact, campaign finance reform would actually *increase* freedom of speech. Equating donations with speech essentially results in the drowning out of the speech of those with less money-ie, it hinders their freedom of speech. The first amendment doesn’t give us the freedom to yell anything into the void-everyone everywhere has that freedom. Rather, it gives us the freedom to be heard in the “public square”-something that money in politics *prevents*. What we need is a new amendment clarifying how campaigns will be financed so it is done fairly, and poor people can have their candidates heard too.

Great video, thank you!

when the market exit speaks, I listen

Being held hostage by the same document that was "meant" to promote fairness is a paradox of our time that no one ever covers, what's even more mindboggling is that it take's an intellectual from Sweden to call it out for what it is, a complete farce that worked during the eighteen hundreds and has since been abused beyond any valuable use or FUBAR for want of a better word. Top informative video Andres (btw love the AE work) thank you 👍

Nice video

I'll be back when I learn Swedish, lol

The usa was never meant to be a democracy

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we are not equal you human trazzh,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, if you tax rich they leave

The constitution literally made the US the greatest country on the planet

This world is selfish is all about me me me and is promoted to be this way. I don’t think this will change

Amazing stuff as usual.

The Constitution is working exactly as it should. We are not a democracy. We are a Republic. We are a “democratic form” of government. We are not into mob rule like you Europeans are. We don’t worship at the altar of “democracy”. It’s a false god. The United States is best viewed as similar to the European Union. The States are called “states”. They are not called “counties”. They are supposed to PRIMARILY exist as small countries of their own with the Federal Government over them only doing…certain things. Why? Because the people in Wyoming don’t want the people of California telling them what to do. No matter how many psycho leftists they happen to have. A state populated with more clowns shouldn’t have significant sway over states that have few. More isn’t better…it’s just more. California is a cesspool that is circling the drain. And there is a large swath of this nation that thinks that those broken ideas are actually GOOD ideas. We can contain the madness in California and a few other states with the current setup. The clowns would overrun the whole country if we were a pure “Democracy”. The majority you are pining for can do things their way in their own states. The normal people can move to a different state of the leftists gain too much ground. If we followed the ideas of people like you…there would be NO place for normal people to go. The madness of California would be shoved down all our throats. Thank God we are a Republic. Than God for the Constitution….and we’ll keep it as-is thank-you-very-much.

Really well edited! Absolutely rubbish content! Way too many false assumptions.

I thought the US is a Representative Republic?

There are absolutely things we need to change in this country, like overturning Citizens United, stopping practices like gerrymandering, adding term limits to the Supreme Court, max terms for Congress, and demolishing the filibuster. I would stop short of a full unabashed democracy because tyranny of the majority is a thing. It's not as obvious in a smaller country where you would think that the majority of the people is representative of the country as a whole, but here, it's much more spread out and people in large cities have a very different culture, mindset, and priorities than those in less populated regions. These notions should be balanced in government, though that's usually much harder than it sounds. NY is a great example of this issue where NYC massively influences and determines laws and policies for everyone because of their population and tax base, but that doesn't mean that many of those same laws and regulations actually make sense in the rest of the state and can occasionally be harmful.

Clarence Thomas's life is proof that there is no benevolent god.