[Publius]

The O'bama administration would gleefully morph the U.S. into a democracy.

That morphing happened a long time ago with the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828. Because of the result of the disputed election of 1824, President John Quincy Adams was pretty much forced to sign into law a ban on applying state property qualifications in federal elections. That helped lead to a clear-cut victory for Jackson a few years later.

Jackson, it should be noted, was an avatar of states' rights. Yet in his first State of the Union letter to Congress in 1829 -- it was a letter then, not a speech -- Jackson asked Congress to pass three constitutional amendments to the states for ratification.

1. An amendment to change the word "republic" to "democracy".
2. An amendment to abolish the Electoral College and choose the president by direct popular vote.
3. An amendment to end the practice of state legislatures electing senators and hand that to the people via direct election.

Jackson didn't get any of his amendments, but the last one became the 17th Amendment in 1913. For all practical purposes, we've been a democracy for a long time.

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[ we've been a democracy for a long time. ]

True... with little or NO discussion of what happened in the change.. Even to this day this discussion has not happened..

Could be.... THIS discussion is WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN...

Un-fortunately America has been dumbed down to the extent few would even know what was being talked about.. Which was the "plan" all along, I think..