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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (73019)	10/2/2009 9:15:35 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

less than a generation later that country's economy is healthier than ours. I wouldn't go that far. en.wikipedia.org

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (73019)	10/4/2009 2:04:53 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

Yes, we ARE in a Republic, which the 2000 election helped to remind us. Gore got the most votes but Bush got the most "electoral" votes so Bush won. Theoretically, a candidate for President could win 70% of the popular votes and still LOSE an election. The Russians were in a COMPLETELY different situation than we were. Their banks didn't have debt obligations of 50 trillion like ours did. Also, the Russians are basically a "resource based" economy. They have MASSIVE oil, natural gas and precious metals deposits with very little concern about that silly environmental stuff.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (73019)	10/9/2009 2:47:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

"Democracy" and "Republic" are not mutually exclusive. A republic can be any system that doesn't have a monarch as the head of state. That would include even direct democracies, and "democracy" hasn't been limited to just direct democracies for a long time, even though that was the initial meaning of the word. 1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections merriam-webster.com 1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic> merriam-webster.com