Starting today I shall be posting on the election since the day is about 2 weeks away….even though I believe that foreign policy is the most important aspect I will be covering other situations all if the hope that some of it will assist the voter in some small way…..
During an election, matters not when, we are all told about our great democracy and how it will be subverted if we vote for the other guy…..matter not which party you identify with….they all say the same sort of mindless dribble.
This time around there seems to be more rhetoric along these lines……an since the term “democracy” has become subjective…no longer does it mean the same thing that was meant back in the days of our Founders……
Our founding fathers raised this same question! They didn’t want a Monarchy. But they also didn’t want a Mobocracy. John Adams, our second president, distrusted the masses and defended inequality among men and advocated a government by an Aristocracy based on birth, education, and wealth.
Even our two political parties want to moderate Democracy. They each appoint “super-delegates.” Super-delegates are (1) given more votes that the normal delegate and (2) they are under less obligation to follow the will of their voters. The hope is that super-delegates will counter the pressure of too much “populism” that might give the nomination to the wrong candidate for that party. The super-delegates in the Democratic Party will side with Hillary Clinton to counter the growing popularity of Bernie Sanders, a strong populist and progressive.
Source: Do We Really Want Democracy? | Huffington Post
My question is…..do the voters really want a democracy? Or maybe it is just another term to use as a prop like patriotism, hero and other such political dog whistles……
What do you want? Or are you fine with the system as we have it today?
Keep in mind that one party appears to hate democracy in all its glory…..
But those purportedly noble and principled Republicans don’t need Trump to undermine our democratic institutions. They are already doing so themselves by thwarting a sitting president’s efforts to appoint a well-qualified candidate to the United States Supreme Court—a nominee that they had previously praised—for no other reason than it would likely alter the ideological balance on the Court. And John McCain has now made explicit what has been a poorly kept secret—that the Republicans will continue to oppose whatever nominee the next Democratic president selects: “I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up. I promise you.”
Source: The Republican Party—Not Just Its Candidate—Hates Democracy – LA Progressive
To answer the question….I’m not so sure anymore.
What?!! Two more weeks of this?!!! Politicians have no sympathy for us, do they? 🙂
Not one ounce…:LOL
Strangely they won’t come for our guns unless we are a minority they wish to suppress. The fact is the Republicans are now going for Muslim Guns under the cloak of terrorism prevention. The reality is back in Nazi Germany Hitler only took the minorities he persecuted guns and actually relaxed gun control for his supporters. Even today Nazi websites portray those who smuggled in guns as Commie Terrorist like the original Nazi Press reports did. What you need to control a people is to take away their free press, not their guns. Then you need to have your supporters regulate all speech and public discussion. Trump is trying to do that and so is the corperate media which created him!
I am not so much worried about my guns but some of the rhetoric is more disturbing to me…..
Unless you are Muslim or Jewish you don’t have to. You have to worry about attacks on the freedom of press which allows you to speak out!
I am working on a post about the freedom of press….should be done in a couple of days….
Democracy?
Some twat came through my notifications saying the EU was a ‘democracy’ B/S No such thing as a democracy these days…just bureaucratic gravy trains…sucking the people’s life blood & brains…. as for freedom of the press look at it now…propaganda. The whole thing is a sick joke. I shall retire soon from all this nonsense….in the end people get wot they vote for….generally more B/S.
Have a good day!
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You as well…..
that twat has come to bug me AGAIN…so I dealt with her! view tweets….gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
To answer the title query, no, thank you. It is true we don’t have much of one, anyway.
As pointed out above, with the inclusion of Super Delegates, and, for that matter, the electoral college, it never really was what is considered the classic form of democracy. Plus, as Tom Jefferson noted, in a letter in 1784 “A monied aristocracy in our country…. has already set the government at defiance.”
Those with money have been corrupting the system, getting legislators to make laws favoring them, since the First Congress after the signing of the Constitution, until, today, there is considerable evidence that rich men are actually considered to already BE a ‘shadow government’, firmly in control of Hillary, and certainly not threatened by Trump, who, if he gets out of hand, will go the way of Kennedy, or Nixon, straight to oblivion….
It’s not a democracy; it’s a soap opera….
gigoid, the dubious
Or a reality show…..chuq
Speaking of US foreign policy, I’ve finally figured it out, thanks to Killary. It can be explicitly stated thus: “We came, we saw, they died!” (Includes a bonus loud guffaw at the end of the statement.)
Sums up well….chuq