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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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1 posted on 08/04/2015 10:47:47 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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Now it’s just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or being elected president.

An exactly true statement.

2 posted on 08/04/2015 10:49:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

We never WERE a democracy. Read the founding documents.


3 posted on 08/04/2015 10:49:56 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Exactly.


4 posted on 08/04/2015 10:52:11 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: Sean_Anthony

“...And to the Republic, for which it stands....”


5 posted on 08/04/2015 10:52:52 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Sean_Anthony

What percentage of US citizens know the difference? I’m afraid it could be counted on the fingers of one hand.


6 posted on 08/04/2015 10:54:45 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Sean_Anthony

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.


7 posted on 08/04/2015 10:57:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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“(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...”

Hey Canucks,

Who’s “WE”?


8 posted on 08/04/2015 10:58:37 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: Gamecock

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!”


9 posted on 08/04/2015 11:01:38 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

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.


10 posted on 08/04/2015 11:02:50 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The Founding Fathers never referred to the United States as a “democracy.” Who came up with that idea that we are?


11 posted on 08/04/2015 11:04:23 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Witness the original efforts of proto-leftists to destroy America.


12 posted on 08/04/2015 11:04:39 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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We never WERE a democracy. Read the founding documents.

Correct. People are reminded of this when we Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.

13 posted on 08/04/2015 11:05:34 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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We haven’t been a constitutionally limited federal government republic since the time of Constitution ignoring FDR, and arguably from the time of President George Washington.
“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.

14 posted on 08/04/2015 11:06:54 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Cobra64

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.


15 posted on 08/04/2015 11:07:04 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

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.


16 posted on 08/04/2015 11:19:58 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Norm Lenhart

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...


17 posted on 08/04/2015 11:20:51 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Trump/Cruz or Cruz/Trump....Make America Great Again....)
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To: RJS1950

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.


18 posted on 08/04/2015 11:21:40 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

GOD! I despise it when retards keep saying we are or were a Democracy, we WERE a REPUBLIC!!!! Now a MOB-OCRACY.


19 posted on 08/04/2015 11:22:01 AM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad

With no joke intended, we are literally Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. One cannot tell me and show proof that isn’t a documentary.


20 posted on 08/04/2015 11:23:28 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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