America is a democracy. True or false? False. And it's time that we figure this out. And talk about what to do about it.

I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. What do you mean America's not a democracy?

What have you lost it? I guess so. I'm talking to myself. But this is not a matter of fact.

We are not a direct democracy. We are a constitutional republic. And it is a difference with a very meaningful distinction that you have to think about. Okay.

Direct democracy is what?

What sometimes would be called a mobocracy, which is 50 plus one majority rule, okay?

That is not what we are. In fact, even our presidential elections are subject to what?

The electoral college. People get pissed off that the popular vote doesn't really matter. Well, it kind of does, right? Because it's an indicator of how those states are going to go. But overall, we have some real things to reconsider. We are a constitutional republic, meaning what? Based on a document that is a set of rules and ideals, we have set up a system of apportionment of representation based off population in part, in part absolute, meaning what? Well, you have one

president, no matter how many people you have in the country. You have two senators for each state regardless of their population. And everybody gets representation regardless of their population within the House. So only the House moves up and down. But as a result of how it was originally set up, we now have a situation where about a third of the American

population has about half the representation in the federal government. Why? Because states that

don't have a lot of people living in them get two senators just like states with a lot of people living in them,

okay? Meaning what? Well, North Dakota has the same number of senators as Texas, right?

So because we are a constitutional republic, we have actually gotten very far away from being a

direct democracy. And I always thought that was a good thing.

Why?

Because America was set up to protect minorities, to protect the few.

Remember, this was an amalgamation, this country, of people running away as minorities

from other places, be it religious, cultural, economic, some, all.

That's who populated this country, castoffs, okay? So I always thought like, well, that's what makes sense.

We're set up so that the minority doesn't get stepped on as they

were in other countries. And that's why we came here. Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm not so sure.

Now you can make the argument that it has become so extreme, so exaggerated that you have the few

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