It amazes me that a large number of FReepers do not understand that we are a representative Republic, not a democracy.
So your representative republic is designed to completely subvert the popular will, in favor of arcane and archaic ‘rules’ which allow for behind the scenes wrestling an wrangling, wining and dining in order to produce an acceptable candidate...
Yes, I’m sure that’s what the Founding Fathers had in mind...
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Isn’t it time for our esteemed leader to clean house again- rid this forum of paid Cruzbots?
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It is designed to protect us from electing populist lunatics by those less informed. For example, Hitler might have been stopped if he had run for POTUS in the U.S. Hopefully, anyway.
The best analogy of a democracy I know of is the two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner.