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The government of these United States is not a democracy. However, a democracy
can be a constitutional arrangement, and a republic can be a democracy.
The United States is a representative democracy, because only the representatives
bring democracy into play in both their deliberations and in their decisions.
Today, in these United States, the word "democracy" is used as a euphemism for
plutocracy. Even the expression, "democratic state", is only a euphemism for the
authoritarian state. The idea of the liberal state entertained by the framers and
founders of the United States Constitution was not a democratic state. If there is
democracy, the state is nonexistent; if there is a state, democracy is nonexistent.
There was a 2004 bumper-sticker: "Bush-Cheney 2004: A strong President for a
strong America."
Bush has been more like a strong-arm President for what he has made into a stronghold
America.
Freedom of political speech is limited to party-politicians and to mass-media personalities.
"The highest virtue is always against the law."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Posted by rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:58:18 | Rating: | Views: 34
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