If you don’t judge “the process” by what it produces what the hell criteria DO you use to judge it by?
I was taking a bit of a “devil’s advocate” position, which I thought I made clear. But I would submit that the problem isn’t the process, it’s American ignorance.
There is no process ever devised that would work when you have an ignorant electorate. The problem is not the process or the party system — it’s a problem of people. And too many American people are ignorant, lazy, corrupt, etc — and that is simply process-proof.