Posted on 08/04/2015 10:47:47 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The liberal left is always quick to call the United States a democracy
Recently, in an interview with Thom Hartmann, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said regarding 2010 Citizens United decision and the 2014 McCutcheon decision, “It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or being elected president.” Huffington Post goes on to explain that the decisions were rendered by “five Republican judges on the U.S. Supreme Court.”
According to liberal left commentators, experts, political minds, and the Huffington Post, the two rulings “enable unlimited secret money (including foreign money) now to pour into U.S. political and judicial campaigns.”
The Huff Post article then goes on to explain that in politics, there are only two choices. Either, we are an aristocracy (oligarchy) where the richest citizen’s desires are reflected in governmental actions, or we are a democracy where the leaders represent the public at large.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
An exactly true statement.
We never WERE a democracy. Read the founding documents.
Exactly.
“...And to the Republic, for which it stands....”
What percentage of US citizens know the difference? I’m afraid it could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Laws are not passed for the common good. (the only legitimate reason for a law). They are passed to promote an ideology or to reward a group for their money and votes.
The election process revolves around big money, and is dominated by the media. Candidates are sanitized or trashed by the media, depending on party membership.
Democrats practice massive voter fraud.
Aside from that, our democracy works well.
“(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...”
Hey Canucks,
Who’s “WE”?
I wish sometimes I was an ambulance chaser. I’d run ads like
“Did your high school leave you unequipped to function in siciety? Teach you a false history?, Call 1 800 Normie and we’ll get you the settlement your disability DESERVES!”
We are, or should be, a constitutional republic, not a democracy. But too many people, including elected officials, talk of us as being a democracy.
The Founding Fathers never referred to the United States as a “democracy.” Who came up with that idea that we are?
Witness the original efforts of proto-leftists to destroy America.
Correct. People are reminded of this when we Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
What’s going on is that people are just now waking up to major corruption in the system. Its about time.
Which explains why leftists want the Pledge eliminated.
Orwell knew what he was talking about. Words are nasty things when they don’t serve their ‘proper’ purpose.
So tired of the journalists, pundits, democrats and republicans constantly referring to our Republic as a democracy.
This is a huge insult to the founders and the Constitution.
Ignorance is no excuse.
The Democrats are doing everything they can to ruin or rid the United States of the Republican party....
The Democrats want a ‘democracy’ instead of a Republic, of which we are, and they think if they can just run the country like the communists did in Germany, then it will happen....
Only problem is, Trump has come along now, and with his ‘not being owned’ by anyone nor is he a politician, they are not able to handle the high polls that Trump is running in...
They try to shove down our throats someone like Jebby or shillary who they can man handle, and tell the ‘spineless sissies’ in the House and Senate what they are going to do and when, and when they can’t, they go off the rails along with the MSM and anyone who will listen...
It’s intentional a lot of the time. Social engineering. there is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for a right wing site to ever call us a democracy.
GOD! I despise it when retards keep saying we are or were a Democracy, we WERE a REPUBLIC!!!! Now a MOB-OCRACY.
With no joke intended, we are literally Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. One cannot tell me and show proof that isn’t a documentary.
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