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America is Not a Democracy. Trump Doesn’t Threaten It

The Founding Fathers saw the danger of the mob and gave us a system designed to avoid it.
 
By Rob Schwarzwalder Published on May 23, 2019 • 8 Comments
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Did you know America is a democracy? And that it’s under threat? That’s what lots of people are saying, anyway. The Speaker of the House, for one. Donald Trump, she says, is “an existential threat to our democracy.”

Whatever the president may or may not be, he is no threat to our democracy. He can’t be. Because we don’t live in one.

Not a Democracy

A “democracy” is something America is not. Yes, we are a nation in which the people rule. But democracy, in its proper sense, means the direct rule of the “50 percent plus one.”

https://stream.org/the-myth-of-american-democracy/

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Re: America is Not a Democracy. Trump Doesn’t Threaten It
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2019, 01:44:21 pm »
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