Comment: Elections do NOT equal Democracy and are NOT "democratic"

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Elections do NOT equal Democracy and are NOT "democratic"

Submitted by samadamscw on Sat, 02/09/2013 - 18:56. Permalink

democracy is Greek for "rule of the people."

By definition then, if rule is instead by representatives, it is NOT "of the people." The fact that these representatives are chosen by election is entirely irrelevant. The representatives can exercise, and are EXPECTED to exercise independent judgement.

There is no bandwagon here. And I'm not jumping on it.

You were taught wrong, or you weren't paying attention in school if they tried to teach you correctly.

What you keep repeating and insisting on, is a version of things that is propagated by socialists for well over 100 years now, in their attempt to get us to collapse our society with democracy, so their socialist policies will be more acceptable and get implemented more widely. Socialism cannot take root in a republic. It needs the chaos brought about by economic collapse, or by revolution. Democracy is prone to economic collapse via a loose fiscal policy as has been well documented. Your insistence on any democratic elements to our nation lead us down the wrong path.

We were not designed to operate as a democracy or with any democratic tendencies or elements. We were designed to operate as a republic - rule by law. To the extent there are Americans like you who do not know, or refuse to understand the difference, and who keep insisting on being a democracy or retaining any democratic elements, or keeping the functions and trappings of a republic while effectively functioning as a democracy—to that extent we are in grave danger of chaos and collapse.

And for the record, Presidential elections are not that important. In order of importance, elections are as follows:

Municipal
Parish/County
State Legislature (one or both houses, depending on your State)
State Executive
Congressional (traditionally, House, but now House and Senate)
Electors for President & Vice-President
President & Vice-President

If we were to put our focus on elections in the proper order, we'd realize where all the power resides and belongs.