Thought it was Iceland.
Oldest Parliament anyway.
Posted on 01/11/2019 5:01:08 PM PST by ColdOne
Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) falsely stated on Wednesday night that India is the "oldest democracy in the world," a title that actually belongs to the United States.
Harris, whose mother Shyamala Harris is from India, made the remark after she was asked by the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart how "being half Indian-American" shaped her "identity and political views."
"You know, India is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, democracy in the world," Harris said.
The statement has no basis in fact. The Republic of India wasn't established as a democracy until 1950 after it won independence from Great Britain. Its first democratic election, which took several months to conduct, was not completed until February 1952, just under 67 years ago.
The world's longest surviving democracy is actually the United States, which ratified its
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That’s a damn lie ! Democracy in any understandable form was created by Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson based in John Locke’s ideas.
Why do the Dummyrats hate America so much they cannot admit we are the oldest and greatest Republic the world has ever seen
India is a tribal cesspool.
A United States Senator?
Carmel is an idiot.
India has been called the world’s LARGEST, not OLDEST, democracy. She knew it was number one in something, but she couldn’t remember what.
Like Obama was born in Kenya and he is muslim. I just like when these half wits give us all a history lesson they know nothing about
And we all know what country she’s actually loyal to, now don’t we?
There’s a reason the NBC rule is in the document.
Thought it was Iceland.
Oldest Parliament anyway.
Nooope
If she had said “largest democracy,” there’s a case for that.
She really did sleep with him? I thought it was a joke.
The United States is not a Democracy.
It is a Republic.
They slash cow urine on their faces...Gimme a break Harris, you @*%*#% leftist stooge.
No it doesnt.
America is a constitutional republic. We may have parts of the election processes that are direct election, but not every office is a direct election vote.
Splash too~!
That’s exactly right. She mixed up biggest with oldest.
Well, it is old and it is a democracy, I suppose...;-)
Hmmm....I did not know this.I always thought that it was Guam, at least until it capsized and sank.
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