Democracy - A fragile thing

And who do you think actually uses opinion polls to make decisions? The polls are designed to make predictions for politicians, they aren't really useful for anything else. Unless you think your own opinion can be swayed by poll results.

 

Who determines the words and what is right?

If there is a quid pro quo it is illegal. I invest along with my fellow investors in companies, why should our voices concerning matters which affect us be silenced or our right to assemble be infringed?

I hold mine accountable at the ballot box and certainly don't put them up on pedestals do you? In fact I think that it is the practice of the left not the right so much.

Who did you vote for last in you Congressional elections and for President?

 

When you petition the government, you choose the words and the facts and actual evidence that will sway them to seeing things your way to reach the same conclusion. That should entail back room meetings, buttering palms, or bribery of any kind. You shouldn't have to bribe elected officials to get them to adhere to their oath of office. You do if you want to get anything done but again it shouldn't be that way in the first place.

It's only illegal if it acted upon. Very little action is taken against criminal politicians in either party.

Don't know where you read that I suggested it wasn't.

There is no left or right, there are a bunch of spoiled, rich, elitists, appointed by the two party scam, that pretends to be interested in half the countries interests, most of which is determined by emotions, and discrimination. The lessor of two evils is a strategy used against the general public, not a reality. One is just as bad as the other, and they both serve the exclusive rich/elites who control them.

I didn't vote for more of the same. I voted for conservatives (real conservatives not the phony baloney republican kind), and not one democrat. Not sure what that has to do with anything, unless you are just another partisan hack, perpetuating more of the same.

 

Sorry that should should be shouldn't.

 

Democracy is only as good as the People.


Moi

 

Only an ignorant fool would want to live in a democracy.

America was founded as a republic. Government was constrained by law, and the people were free. As a result, America became the beacon of freedom for the world, and people from every country and culture sacrificed everything to get escape the tyranny, persecution, or dismal conditions under which they were living - to pursue the "American dream".

Many failed and suffered of course, but over time freedom created great opportunity for everyone to raise their standard of living. Sadly, also over time the radical left, funded by the monied elite, succeeded in destroying our republic and replaced it with a democracy.

Democracy is inherently unstable; and, as James Madison wrote in Federalist Paper #10,

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths."

Sadly, we are moving into the "violent death" phase - yet, amazingly, most don't see it as they've been so thoroughly indoctrinated in the government schools.