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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I'm not sure what you mean by that ... but I am certain that Hank's cap size is no greater than 5 1/4.
Say it enough and it will be the truth
It’s not even much of a democracy at all, unless you’re a Brahmin. It’s a Hindu state in which everyone is expectd to be Hindu or subservient to Hinduism.
The Free Beacon hires buffoons This person is a simple minded buffoon
It’s worse than that. Go thru the whole slideshow:
https://www.chinasmack.com/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions
Once again these moron socialist pop off with crap and don’t know history or what they are talking about. Now if she had said India was the region where advancing cultures may have started she might have been right.
I wonder....Did you look back at post #20????
THEN, you might understand....8>)
Yes, I saw #20. I was making a joke. Never mind.
You are too kind to call her a moron much worse than that
She looks a lot like Occasional-Cortex in that picture.
W hy isn’t the GOP calling her on this BS?
Oh, I forgot: they’re the Deep State/Swamp/GOPe and have no spines of cajones.
Nevermind.
We’ll have to do it.
LOL...It’s late for an old man like me...I missed it (as I do sometimes...)
The oldest constitutional and continuously operating government is in fact the United States. The oldest governing body is the Vatican.
Ohh, well. You didn’t miss much. :-)
LOL...Have a good night...I’m outta here...
A whole bunch of people on this thread need an English lesson:
Oxford English Dictionary:
NOUN
mass noun
1.) A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
‘a system of parliamentary democracy’
Demonrats invariably favor the word democracy over republic to link it to what they call the Democratic Party.
Yup
there is nothing ‘democratic’ about the caste slavery system that has persisted in India for centuries. India remains a slave nation.
India is the LARGEST BY POPULATION democratic country in the World...Harris got the metaphor wrong....not a good indication of the level of mental dexterity essential for a Presidential run.
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