The USA is a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy

[holdover]

Howard Smoot, known as Dan Smoot (October 5, 1913 –July 24, 2003), was a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a conservative political activist. From 1957 to 1971

 

[Acer-m14]

No Shit .. i hate when Tucker and them say .. we need to save the Democracy ..

 

[Acer-m14]

 

[GOPerfect]

We are a Constitutional Republic and a Democracy. All rolled into one.

 

[Acer-m14]

just the first one is left out now ..

 

[meketrefe]

Democracy is just a catchy word for political marketing based on popular sentiment.
it is like having an plumbers union choosing an afable electrician to be the chief of surgery at a hospital.

 

[Tisto]

I venture say that America is neither a democracy nor a representative republic. It may have been in the past, but no longer can be called either.

 

[spat]

We are a Constitutional Republic and a Democracy. All rolled into one.

The government is organized as a constitutional republic.

But it is chosen by a nominally democratic process.

 

[GOPerfect]

Right, that is why I say we are both

 

[spat]

Right, that is why I say we are both

Note, I said a "nominally" democratic process.

I have my doubts that it is an actually democratic process anymore.

 

[fresch]

Democracy is just a catchy word for political marketing based on popular sentiment.
it is like having an illiterate plumbers union choosing an afable electrician to be the chief of surgery at a hospital.

And your healthcare would be magnificent, right after my break.

 

[meketrefe]

And your healthcare would be magnificent, right after my break.

I Used a bad example. Socrates explained this very well.

 

[Defilade]

Constitutional Republic? Where??