Posted on 04/20/2022 12:44:37 PM PDT by FNU LNU
Because it was, and it did nothing to prevent corporations from buying off politicians.
BS
Nothing about the government of the United States can be described as a democracy. In fact, the founders specifically stated that democracy does not work, thus, outspokenly avoided the same. Anyone calling our government a democracy is clearly ignorant. We have a republican form of governance or a constitutional representative government.
..............................................
My preference is to call it a Constitutional Republic.
Ahhh but what the founders feared about a democracy has actually come about. The founders made no provision to impede the literal purchase of riff raff votes.
It was the riff raff of Athens that killed democracy. It is the riff raff of the American City States that have been bought with money and the false promises of equality. The riff raff votes allow control of the City States, that in turn allows control of the states that control the nation
we might as well have the country run directly by the CEO’s of the top ten DOW Jones companies.
...................................................
Reminds me of a recent post where someone suggested that given the abysmal failure of the Federal Government on so many levels, it would probably be to everyone’s advantage if we just have Walmart run the country!
That works.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.