Just joined the GOA today... select payments to become a life member... there are other levels of membership... hope I can afford it... posting link in case anyone is interested... doing what I can to fight for our rights... would rather fight it out in court then on the streets to tell the truth... but should the left take the next election (mail in voter fraud?)... well... goodbye all rights? from where I sit SEEMS like the only way they can take the next election is by fraud... but maybe I'm outta touch? Life Member
Quite possibly...All non-TRumpists need to do, is register themselves to vote, and cast their personal vote on polling day. Apathy and un-involvement in the democratic process weakens, not strengthens democracy.
After all these years, Chell still doesn’t get it... Just like all his Democratic buddies... The United States of America is NOT a Democracy, and all those that think so are, are deluded... The USA is a Constitutional Representative REPUBLIC, and was founded as such in it’s inception, and still is today.. I mean REALLY, is that to hard a concept to grasp... Constitutional Representative Republic....
The fundamental problem with the various and sundry governing schemes in use today world wide is that the differences, similarities, and relative effects on the population is NOT taught nor studied outside of academia. The differences are more important when a republic is mislabeled as a democracy. Now, think about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and drive yourself batty. Food for Chelly to explatorate for us. When and how does an oligarchy become a dictatorship?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands... we here in the USA are NOT a democracy... the founders were fully aware of what a democracy was... as Franklin is reported saying... democracy is 2 wolves and one sheep voting on what's for dinner...
well it used to be. I think the 17th Amendment perverted the Senate into a second House, bribing us with our own money for votes instead of representing the states in a struggle to keep power local. That was the only real check on runaway federal government. The only real limit now on federal control is how much they think they can get away with before the frogs jump out of the pot.
Rather than give a give a detailed reply to your post #3 GOA and derail @OldDude49 's self congratulatory GOA thread into the realms of political civics, I wish to suggest that you might review your reading spectacles prescription and/or read what what was written in post #2 more carefully than you evidently had done. I made no claim in that post that the USA is a democracy (Though it clearly is a 'liberal democracy' more so than a 'social democracy'). I was referring to the political process and political philosophy which underpins the political structure, which in the USA's case, is in the form of a constitutional representative republic. United States | History, Map, Flag, & Population republic | Definition, History, & Facts democracy | Origin and meaning of democracy by Online Etymology Dictionary Not all republics are democracies, and not all democracies are republics, but a political system which is not democratic in nature, is as like to be a system where the 'demos' (the people) live at the whim of rulers whom they had not chosen; rulers who may not be removed short of a successful rebellion. Undemocratic political arrangements are rarely beneficent for the ruled, and usually result in tyranny.
