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To: FightThePower!
Elections don’t work, because our country functions as a Direct Democracy when it is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. Face it, government only grows. It doesn’t matter who we elect or don’t elect. The size of government, the levels of taxes go up. We are slaves.

We are only "slaves" if we act like ones. Our country does not function like a "Direct Democracy." If it did, our elected leaders would be more responsive to the electorate's will. They are brazenly doing what they want regardless of the people's will. We must hold them accountable at all levels of government. That is possibile in our Republic.

56 posted on 11/08/2009 6:04:26 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

“We are only “slaves” if we act like ones. Our country does not function like a “Direct Democracy.” If it did, our elected leaders would be more responsive to the electorate’s will. They are brazenly doing what they want regardless of the people’s will. We must hold them accountable at all levels of government. That is possibile in our Republic.”

We all act like slaves, we pay 50% of our income to the government, even though we don’t agree with 90% of what they do.

Our government does act like a Direct Democracy, where in the Constitution does it say the government should be providing 90% of what it does? It was voted for by mobs and the Supreme Court allowed it.


57 posted on 11/08/2009 6:23:09 AM PST by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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