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In reply to the discussion: Princeton study: U.S. no longer an actual democracy [View all]valerief
(53,235 posts)39. And the fact we're not a democracy, though we claim to spread democracy,
cannot be stated often enough.
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Please don't express that outside of DU. We are loving, others may not humor you.
AlbertCat
Aug 2014
#121
Actually, there was plenty that was socialist about the National Socialists.
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#106
A constitutionally controlled, democratic republic. None of that holds true today.
rhett o rick
Aug 2014
#55
I know.. as if there existed any distinction of one or the other. We are not either, and haven't
2banon
Aug 2014
#78
We provide Democracy Lessons to black and brown and hispanic countries on a daily basis. Ingrates
libdem4life
Aug 2014
#10
K&R!!! This is what I have been talking about. It's pretty clear even w/o a study that if
Dustlawyer
Aug 2014
#14
Publicly Funded Elections are an excellent idea. They would go a long way toward getting the
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#63
If it's illegal, then they can be jailed, assuming of course we have an AG willing to go after them.
Dustlawyer
Aug 2014
#82
Boy I'm sure glad they did that study , I would never have figured that myself .
geretogo
Aug 2014
#16
No kidding Princeton. It never was, it is a Republic that was created by slave owners. n/t
951-Riverside
Aug 2014
#23
It's no secret that some of the Founders inherited plantations and slaves, btw.
AverageJoe90
Aug 2014
#58
It's no secret that some of the Founders inherited plantations and slaves, btw.
AlbertCat
Aug 2014
#117
Whatever you call it, our political/economic/legal system is completely fucked
Taitertots
Aug 2014
#25
Kind of like Mexico, or any banana republic where the income inequality is off the charts nt
ErikJ
Aug 2014
#29
All through Central and South America ever since the Munroe Doctrine we have been setting up,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#38
Long live plutocracy! Can one of them give me some money to go to the dentist?
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2014
#45
Bernie Sanders has been stating this very fact, over & over, for at least a few YEARS now. nt
NorthCarolina
Aug 2014
#46
This is where Republicans I knew, back in the pre-tea party days, would claim
Baitball Blogger
Aug 2014
#48
-- and they neede a study for this? It never was a democracy. it was a democratic republic.
Hoppy
Aug 2014
#57
corporate health care laws, monstanto laws, trade agreements, spying are all evidence
whereisjustice
Aug 2014
#76
ironic that a 4 year degree at Princeton w/ room & board is about $200,000, you know
whereisjustice
Aug 2014
#77
So it took a study from Princeton to tell us something the the left has known for decades?
YOHABLO
Aug 2014
#97
The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us
cantbeserious
Aug 2014
#99
Not sure how much of a Democracy people can expect if they don’t vote and don’t pay attention to
Chathamization
Aug 2014
#107
all empires eventually fail. Hubris, greed, overreach - we are seeing it all and more.
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2014
#120