Americans have had over 200 years to prove democracy can work, but...

[Blues Man]

The simple fact is we get the politicians we deserve.

It's time to really look at our so called leaders and seriously ask ourselves

" Is this really the best we can do?"

 

[gipper]

Bari Weiss rattles off a lot of very good reasons why the world has gone mad…

 

[SeaMajor7]

Bari Weiss rattles off a lot of very good reasons why the world has gone mad…

She's not wrong.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

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Our forefathers established a Republic not a Democracy, no matter what Democrats try to convince us.

America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy

Contrary to popular belief, America is not, nor was it meant to be, a pure democracy. America is a republic. Nevertheless, more and more voices today are calling for America to become a direct democracy.

www.heritage.org

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America Is Not a Democracy

How the United States lost the faith of its citizens—and what it can do to win them back

www.theatlantic.com

Well, then what is up with all those juries, laws and voting?
It was fine until republicans came along.

Texas Bill Will Give Republican Official Power to Overturn ...​

Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com › ... › Texas Senate
2 days ago — The Texas state government is poised to enact a new law giving the governor-appointed Secretary of State the ability to overturn elections ...

Florida governor signs Republican-backed law imposing ...​

Reuters
https://www.reuters.com › world › florida-limits-absentee...
May 6, 2021 — Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill imposing new limits on voting by mail and using ballot drop boxes, .

Does Georgia voting bill allow Republicans to overturn ...​

Savannah Morning News
https://www.savannahnow.com › news › 2021/04/07 › g...
Apr 7, 2021 — Of the changes Senate Bill 202 made to Georgia's election law, the state's new power to replace a county elections board is perhaps the most ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seeks pardon for man convicted in ...​

Go.com
https://abcnews.go.com › story
Apr 10, 2023 — Greg Abbott said he is “working as swiftly as Texas law allows” to pardon Daniel Perry, who was convicted Friday of murder in the fatal

Teabaggers are working overtime to diminish democracy.

 

[gipper]

Of course it is.

We’re not a democracy or a republic. If anything, we’re a military dictatorship.

 

[Unkotare]

We’re not a democracy or a republic. If anything, we’re a military dictatorship.

Nonsense.

 

[gipper]

Nonsense.

You live in a fairytale of your own making. Read this excellent column (if you can) and dispute any of it’s conclusions.

THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN
The Chris Hedges Report
America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Götterdämmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, “without the gods.”
America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Götterdämmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, “without the gods.”
Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government. Military systems are sold before they are produced with guarantees that huge cost overruns will be covered. Foreign aid is contingent on buying U.S. weapons. Egypt, which receives some $1.3 billion in foreign military financing, is required to devote it to buying and maintaining U.S. weapons systems. Israel has received $158 billion in bilateral assistance from the U.S. since 1949, almost all of it since 1971 in the form of military aid, with most of it going towards arms purchases from U.S. weapons manufacturers. The American public funds the research, development and building of weapons systems and then buys these same weapons systems on behalf of foreign governments. It is a circular system of corporate welfare.
Between October 2021 and September 2022, the U.S. spent $877 billion on the military, that’s more than the next 10 countries, including China, Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom combined. These huge military expenditures, along with the rising costs of a for-profit healthcare system, have driven the U.S. national debt to over $31 trillion, nearly $5 trillion more than the U.S.’s entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This imbalance is not sustainable, especially once the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency. As of January 2023, the U.S. spent a record $213 billion servicing the interest on its national debt.
The public, bombarded with war propaganda, cheers on their self-immolation. It revels in the despicable beauty of our military prowess. It speaks in the thought-terminating clichés spewed out by mass culture and mass media. It imbibes the illusion of omnipotence and wallows in self-adulation.
The intoxication of war is a plague. It imparts an emotional high that is impervious to logic, reason or fact. No nation is immune.
The Enemy From Within

 

[Unkotare]

You live in a fairytale of your own making. .....

You're not really an anarchist, kid. Stop playing games on the internet.

 

[easyt65]

A failure of a democracy is a failure of its people. Look at us! Are we Americans the stupidest people on the planet? A democracy requires agreement among the people, yet we can't even agree that we even are a democracy. Our nation appears to be failing. The only thing nearly all people can agree on is - exactly who is responsible for our failure. Nearly everyone will say "It's the Other Side!". And they have PROOF! They can provide links to mounds of evidence on the internet supporting their beliefs. The problem with the internet is, and we should all know this by now, no matter what your beliefs are or how crazy they are, you can always find supporting evidence for them on the internet. There undoubtedly is some honest, rational information available on the internet, but who needs it if it challenges our own beliefs and there is an unlimited amount of alternative 'truth' online that we can spread instead?

Without blaming "the Other Side", can anyone see a way out of this mess?

Democracy has worked for 200 yrars - we are something like the longest lasting nation / empire in history.

The country started to go to hell in the proverbial handbasket as liberal extremisy, Democrat socialist authoritarianism and the need / desire to destroy this nation grew.

Liberal extremism / Progressive Liberalism / tbe nrw far left extremist Democrat party is a CANCER that has spread ... a continues to spread.

 

[gipper]

You're not really an anarchist, kid. Stop playing games on the internet.

So you can’t read. Thought so.

It’s sad we have public school teachers who can’t read.

 

[Unkotare]

So you can’t read. Thought so.

It’s sad we have public school teachers who can’t read.

Run along and play your little games. You are NOT an anarchist. You are lucky not to be, as you wouldn't last a week.

 

[zaangalewa]

We’re not a democracy or a republic. If anything, we’re a military dictatorship.

A very unperfect military dictatorship. No public whippings and executions. How boring. And who goes to jail in the USA for 25 years because he criticizes Putin? By the way: Knows anyone something about a critics of Xi Jinping?

 

[Dwell]

Let the People Represent Themselves Through Referendums on All Important Issues

I'm in favor of having more referendums, but our representatives are also our lawmakers. If they won't represent us, they will only pass our referendums into law when they are in line with their own political beliefs.

 

[sartre play]

Most of our elected do not work for us, they work mostly for dollars and too promote their party's propaganda.
Check out the new pay raise trick, giving them self new
reimbursement for expenses.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

He's a real World History scholar.....

Whirled History, Spun Like a Top by Those on Top

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

OK? well how is that? We do have democratic elections to elect our representatives .

Electing Someone Else to Determine Your Future For You Is Not Self-Government

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The simple fact is we get the politicians we deserve.

It's time to really look at our so called leaders and seriously ask ourselves

" Is this really the best we can do?"

Only Sheep Need Shepherds

 

[gipper]

A very unperfect military dictatorship. No public whippings and executions. How boring. And who goes to jail in the USA for 25 years because he criticizes Putin? By the way: Knows anyone something about a critics of Xi Jinping?

Julian Assange.

 

[citygator]

A failure of a democracy is a failure of its people. Look at us! Are we Americans the stupidest people on the planet? A democracy requires agreement among the people, yet we can't even agree that we even are a democracy. Our nation appears to be failing. The only thing nearly all people can agree on is - exactly who is responsible for our failure. Nearly everyone will say "It's the Other Side!". And they have PROOF! They can provide links to mounds of evidence on the internet supporting their beliefs. The problem with the internet is, and we should all know this by now, no matter what your beliefs are or how crazy they are, you can always find supporting evidence for them on the internet. There undoubtedly is some honest, rational information available on the internet, but who needs it if it challenges our own beliefs and there is an unlimited amount of alternative 'truth' online that we can spread instead?

Without blaming "the Other Side", can anyone see a way out of this mess?

Yea. I do. Democracy only works with an educated citizenship. Massively improving the education level of our citizens is the only way we save this place. The dumb and uneducated will bring us down by falling for the stupidity of populists.

 

[Stryder50]

Diversity is not the same as divisiveness.

Diversity is the source of divisiveness.