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We Are No Longer A Democracy
Canada Free Press ^ | 08/04/15 | Douglas Gibbs

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.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: democracy; republic; socialism
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To: nomad

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21 posted on 08/04/2015 11:25:44 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Really, sad fact, but true as all hell.


22 posted on 08/04/2015 11:26:26 AM PDT by nomad
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To: Sean_Anthony

“It’s a Republic if you can keep it” ~ Benjamin Franklin


23 posted on 08/04/2015 11:30:50 AM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

What Carter said about us being a monetarily influenced oligarchy was correct, but not in the way he meant it. Citizens United just partially rebalanced the scales between big interests on opposite sides.


24 posted on 08/04/2015 11:33:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Sean_Anthony

Um—The Constitution establishes the US as a representative republic, not a democracy.


25 posted on 08/04/2015 11:33:53 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

That is one funny movie!


26 posted on 08/04/2015 11:37:58 AM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

It would be funnier if it wasn’t reality.


27 posted on 08/04/2015 11:41:48 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
‘Brawndo, it has like, electrolytes.’
28 posted on 08/04/2015 11:47:06 AM PDT by nomad
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To: Sean_Anthony

The problem is not that we do not have a democracy, but that we do have one.

The half of the people who have below-average IQ are pretty much completely influenced by media, which in turn are owned and funded by a tiny few.

This is how democracy works and why our Founders emphatically did not want one.

Let us not fool ourselves by playing into the fallacy that democracy is some utopian, ideal form of government. It is nothing more than mob rule with paperwork, where the rubber meets the road.


29 posted on 08/04/2015 12:00:43 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Sean_Anthony

We are a republic. At least that’s what we’re suppose to be.


30 posted on 08/04/2015 12:24:29 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Sean_Anthony

I blame the schools. To much time spent teaching about Sally has two moms and not enough history. Even many of our Government do not understand that the United States is not and has never been a Democracy.


31 posted on 08/04/2015 12:55:11 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Gee Jimmah - thank you for your early contribution to our fate!


32 posted on 08/04/2015 2:00:39 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Sean_Anthony

It’s possible we are no longer a republic, certainly.


33 posted on 08/04/2015 2:03:50 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
We may not be a democracy de jure, but we are a democracy de facto.

The federal government can run deficits. States can't, but states are run by politicians who want to promise more than they can give.

The feds move in with grant money with mandates attached using funds that will never be produced or collected.

Presto! We are a federalized system run from DC by politicians voted in by the idiot masses that live in dense urban areas.

The few states that have large enough rural/suburban communities to offset the urban cesspools are quickly being overrun by illegal aliens allowed in by the administration.

The misperception has become the reality.

34 posted on 08/04/2015 9:45:57 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Sean_Anthony

We never were a Democracy. We were a Representative Republic.


35 posted on 08/04/2015 9:57:16 PM PDT by sport
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To: bigbob

Maybe one in a million at the most. Probably less than 500 in all 50 States.


36 posted on 08/04/2015 9:59:42 PM PDT by sport
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