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America was never a democracy, it's a constitutional republic.
Hence my previous post about it being lip service to the masses. We hear all this blah blah blah about the US being a democracy and it really isn't. Never has been. Not in any true form. In a boiled down simplified "you get to vote" form, if one chooses to look at it that way. But even then, there's the electoral college when it comes to the president, we don't get to vote on issues, we're blind most of the time to what our "representatives" are really doing. So, yeah, we get to vote, for carefully selected people by select little groups in hushed meetings and yadda yadda yadda. Gotta love our "democracy".
We don't have much left of it, so I think it must be fair to conclude we hate it. Why is that?
More I learn, compare, and see, the more it seems the case here. Im sure colored folk and American Indians saw things in a notably different light.Democracy? Where? Did we ever truly have it? Were we ever set up as a democracy or was that just lip service to the masses?
Good thing we are well armed sheep...
But is America still about liberty? That's the real question.
If we were to abide in Christ, there would be no need to be governed. But honestly, what we all need is a righteous dictator. The problem is, no such person is presently in this world. That individual is soon to come. Honestly, I like the idea of democracy for a nation abiding in Christ. For all who vote would have all of our best interests at heart. But I certainly don't want an immoral majority telling me how to live my life. I'll take anarchy over that any day.
Let's ignore the gun debate for now, but we will have to tackle it later I suppose, since I think it's inherent to freedom and liberty.Oh, you really want to get me started?
We have rights and freedoms we don't even realize we have, ones we take advantage of, take for granted, and ones we make up. Then we have ones that we have that regularly get tromped on on a regular basis. We are constantly watched, under surveillance, have our privacy usurped easily at every turn without most people knowing what their rights really are.
Oh, and the "well armed sheep" bit...that's a whole other can of worms for me.
And this, my friends, is why democracy can be dangerous. It could so easily turn into theocracy. Could so easily turn into the very reason the original settlers wanted to start anew. To get away from overbearing religious rule.
And this, my friends, is why democracy can be dangerous. It could so easily turn into theocracy. Could so easily turn into the very reason the original settlers wanted to start anew. To get away from overbearing religious rule.
I government ruled by God is not the same as a government ruled by an authoritarian religious freak.
Evidence?