Gary Goldie Strawley

Are we losing our Democracy to corporate RULE???

Loki Loc: Georgia

When was the last time you pledged allegiance to the f**g, and the democracy for which it stands?

Artemis

oh here we go

Artemis

you made a fatal mistake on the missing the point- split hair forum,You said democracy tsk,tsk your in for it now

Loki Loc: Georgia

As usual, maelstrom's mouth is in motion before his brain is engaged. I merely wished to point out that we are a Republic, not a Democracy, and as much as some wish it, the two terms are not interchangeable. Would you care to read what some of the people who wrote our Constitution had to say about democracies?
"There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide." John Adams, Second President.
"Democracy is the most vile form of government." James Madison, Fourth President.
"Democracy will soon degenerate into anarchy." John Adams again.
Democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of it's own destruction." Fisher Ames, author of the First Amendment.
"We are a Republic." Alexander Hamilton.
"A democracy is the devil's own government." Fisher Ames, Founder.
"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% takes away the Rights of the other 49%. Thomas Jefferson, Second President.

As a matter of fact, it might be more accurate to say we are a Bureaucracy. The Oligarchic Plutocracy that the Republic has become cannot function without a huge Bureaucracy of unelected, unaccountable, nearly unfireable, overpaid and underbrained apparatchiks who churn out reams of regulations having the force of law, with no one questioning their legality. Want an example? Obamacare was originally passed as a 2000 plus page leviathan that no one read before they v**ed on it. Thanks to the bureaucrats that now have control of it, since Congress passed it, exempted themselves from it, and washed their hands of it, Obamacare is now 14,000 plus pages and growing every day. We are not losing anything to corporate rule except jobs that are exported because we have the highest corporate taxes in the world. We are losing to bureaucrats, because of politicians that We the People keep re-electing.

AnnMarie Loc: Madison, Wi

Yes. It was happening already, but Citizens United greased the skids

archie bunker Loc: Texas

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