I have been trying to explain to my 10 & 13 year old that there Teachers are incorrect when they say the the US is a "Democracy". It's very hard to explain the "Tyranny of the Majority" and the Electoral System to them without squelching the fact that we are a free society. Democracy has been the watch-word of freedom lovers everywhere. the problem is, you have to take more than Democracy into account when you plan to govern the people (See Constitution).
Do the British and the rest of the world know that we are NOT trying to export "Democracy"? Why would we want "Democracy" to spread in an unstable, anti-christian, anti-everything-but-Islam society?
Pre-emptive strike to the possible furor over my statement -
No, I AM NOT ANTI-FREEDOM
BTW - Terrorists succesful hits since 9/11
Killed - 10,049
Wounded - 24,541
Source - http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
<< "... to the death knell of American democracy."
It's not a DEMOCRACY, it's a REPUBLIC (and it's not FREE). You didn't understand this in 1776 and you still don't understand it today! >>
There are a couple of British-born folks who understand America and that ours is a Republic and not a democracy.
John Derbyshire is one of them.
We call him a hyphenated American.
An AMERICAN-American.