Comments on: Top 10 Things Americans Want but Can’t Have

By: speedmaster

speedmaster — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:21:05 +0000

Democracy is just mob-rule, or ‘mobocracy’. It does not in any way guarantee liberty.

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
— John Adams

More on that topic here.
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/

By: Suds

Suds — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:20:55 +0000

Oh - and don’t forget slavery.
Never would have gotten rid of that with a popular vote…
Never would have gotten into WWII…
All the civil rights legislation…

Don’t fall into an idealized view of the tyranny of the majority.

By: armygi

armygi — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:00:34 +0000

“TRUTH!” It’s out there….. but not here!!!

By: JoeWo Joe Wosik Blog » Blog Archive » America is not a Democracy, if it was some things would be different

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:55:39 +0000

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