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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (105053)5/18/2011 10:57:18 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie8 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 224888
 
pssssst.....<whisper>the united states is not a democracy. no, no...really. in fact, right there in the pledge of allegiance it says so.

I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands
one nation, under God, indivisible
with liberty and justice for all

Note that it doesn't say "and to the democracy for which it stands"?

that's because we are very intentionally NOT a democracy. Why you ask? Because our founding fathers knew that a democracy is simply a license for a robin hood state where the have-nots vote themselves the assets of the haves. Or in their terms, a democracy is a tyranny of the masses. And we are seeing that today. The United States is a Constitutional Republic. Not that it much matters anymore when slick lawyers can take a document that was designed to limit the powers of government can interpret in such a way that it actually implements a tyranny of the masses. The best example of this is the idiots who twist the commerce clause to support the universal healthcare bill. Only a disingenuous lawyer type could find support for such an oppressive institution in the commerce clause.

Democracies without a constitution are as evil as dictatorships. And it's time that that be exposed.
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