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2014-10-06 Home Front: Politix

Democracy in the United States is a 'hollow myth'

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Posted by Fred 2014-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Democracy is doing just fine. Thats the problem. What we have is a REPUBLIC. Being a republic of laws where the individual (not the mob or government) is paramount is what has made the US exceptional, and a beacon of liberty.

The replacement of the individual with the group (collective) is an oncoming disaster being brought to us by progressives and democrats, and other collectivists (socialist, communists). They must be stopped.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-06 02:32|| 2014-10-06 02:32|| Front Page Top

#2 As opposed to democracy in Iran, which is a guiding beacon that other countries aspire to.
(What was the question?)

Posted by ed in texas 2014-10-06 07:50|| 2014-10-06 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Correction: We once had a Republic. Theories vary on when it ceased to function.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-10-06 08:40|| 2014-10-06 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Ask, Seek, Knock - Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

You asked for an affirmative action leader, you got one, (quite a find), You knocked (likely your knees, I suspect) and the door opened (just like opening Pandora's box).

Democracy ? - well you got what you asked for Hope and Change, very sour taste isn't it, loosing Democracy and the Republic, loosing control of your country to alien invaders being helped by the very government you elected, loosing control of your medical services and insurance, loosing control of your security both domestically and internationally, and possibly loosing your life to an air born virus, loosing and loosing; and now you hope it will change.

Be careful the next time you Ask, Seek, Knock, if there is a next time.

Posted by One Eyed Tingle9046 2014-10-06 09:35|| 2014-10-06 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 "It feels so good, it can't be wrong."-cracy?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-06 12:54|| 2014-10-06 12:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Either way the US system is in jeapordy because to few educate themselves before they vote. I'm opposed to some kind of poll test but its starting to seem more and more necessary.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-10-06 14:30|| 2014-10-06 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The when we began losing the Republic is very precise, thanks to Democrat Progressive Woodrow Wilson:
"The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. The amendment supersedes Article I, § 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures." Wikipedia cite
This defeated the FOunding Father's intent to bolster the power of the States to have all those powers not enumerated (10th) in the Constitution be solely the province of the states. Once the states lost the power to elect the Senate to protect their sovereign rights, the slide began towards what was feared, the tyranny of the simple majority

Posted by NoMoreBS 2014-10-06 15:55|| 2014-10-06 15:55|| Front Page Top

#8 , the tyranny of the simple majority

Emphasis on the word simple

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-06 16:49|| 2014-10-06 16:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Perhaps 'ignorant' might be a better word. But stupid would work too.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-10-06 17:01|| 2014-10-06 17:01|| Front Page Top

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