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Politics : Err America: They Report, They Decide -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (1360)	4/23/2008 5:44:55 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1513

"Fascist rightwingers always claim America was never meant to be a democracy. They are talking about a technicality and indeed the electoral college makes us a bit less than a true democracy." Your ignorance would be astounding if you weren't so prolific in your demonstrations of it. The electoral college has nothing to do with it. Ours is a representative government, not a democracy, and even if the electoral college didn't exist, that would still be so. Do you know why? Because the founding fathers of the nation feared mob rule at least as much as they disliked the King of England and colonial rule, so they designed a system that would minimize the risk of blithering idiots like you banding together and taking over.