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america is not a democracy

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jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#1 - 2014-04-18 14:33:16 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#2 - 2014-04-18 14:49:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Correct, it's technically a representative republic.

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Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2014-04-18 14:55:12 UTC
jason hill wrote:
interesting read ... but nothing we probably didnt already know

It is heartening that more people figure it out ever day.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#4 - 2014-04-18 16:14:44 UTC
This is a great leap forward. Scientific methods were used, so that makes it official. Now we can say it without being accused of being Commies, hippies, or conspiracy theorists.
stoicfaux
#5 - 2014-04-18 17:33:36 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
This is a great leap forward. Scientific methods were used, so that makes it official. Now we can say it without being accused of being Commies, hippies, or conspiracy theorists.

Well, technically, we really should wait for a second study to independently confirm the results of the first study.

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Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-04-18 17:36:14 UTC
no country runs with democracy

never has

like all political theories, it only works on paper
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#7 - 2014-04-18 17:38:15 UTC
then we would probably have to wait for a third study to disavow the second ... and so forth
Adunh Slavy
#8 - 2014-04-18 19:21:24 UTC
And now some fruit loop will blame "capitalism" and demand that more power be concentrated into the hands of the oligarchs..

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#9 - 2014-04-18 19:27:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
It's a constitutional republic which operates though a democratic process.
As far as I know, the only pure democracy to have ever exist, existed aboard pirate ships.
Pirate and privateer ships made up the bulk of the continental navy during the revolutionary war.
Democracy was adopted as a means by which a constitutional republic may function.
Your link, I stopped at "rich and powerful elite", I'll wait for the next enlightening study.
Edit note: and just providing a definition, we already had a political lock in the forum this week. ibtl, most likely.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#10 - 2014-04-18 19:31:28 UTC
Hmm, a representative republic that's actually an oligarchy. Sounds like one of the most common forms of government on Earth. Russia comes to mind, but there's also Sudan, Kazakhstan, Central African Republic, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Syria, etc. etc.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#11 - 2014-04-18 21:18:33 UTC
Adunh Slavy wrote:
And now some fruit loop will blame "capitalism" and demand that more power be concentrated into the hands of the oligarchs..


Nah. However, it is part of why the US got to the point where the socialists could sway the masses to the point where they could take over the reigns.

Just so we are clear.

Oligarch - a very rich businessman with a great deal of political influence

Oligarchs started the Democratic Republic of the United States of America and they lost their control over a century ago. They created the rule book and lost the game Shocked




I like fruit loops!
jason hill
Red vs Blue Flight Academy
#12 - 2014-04-18 22:41:29 UTC
just saying Big smile........ I didn't write it its the bbc .... but I just found their findings worthy of a post
Crompton Aberforth
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-04-19 01:57:56 UTC
Politics is incredibly interesting to some and incredibly boring to others.

It is a subject which can divide a room in the blink of an eye.

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#14 - 2014-04-19 09:21:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Max Godsnottlingson
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Hmm, a representative republic that's actually an oligarchy. Sounds like one of the most common forms of government on Earth. Russia comes to mind, but there's also Sudan, Kazakhstan, Central African Republic, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Syria, etc. etc.


Don't forget to add the UK to that too. More and more we are seeing our government run by 'old school, blue blood, public schoolboy types' and that includes the (so called left wing/socialist) labour party!

(For none UK folk, to us Brits, a public school is a very expensive private school. Not to be confused with a government run school which the rest of us rabble have to use)
Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#15 - 2014-04-19 09:52:55 UTC
I like Snow.

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Adunh Slavy
#16 - 2014-04-19 09:57:03 UTC
Slade Trillgon wrote:

I like fruit loops!



Good for you, but you still avoid the point, as usual.

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Catherine Wolfisheim
Perkone
Caldari State
#17 - 2014-04-19 10:35:53 UTC
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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#18 - 2014-04-19 11:51:30 UTC
Adunh Slavy wrote:
Slade Trillgon wrote:

I like fruit loops!



Good for you, but you still avoid the point, as usual.




Your said that someone would come along and say it is capitalism's fault and that we should put more power into the hands of the oligarchs. I implied that the Capitalist Oligarchs already had the power and they lost it to the socialist oligarchs.
Snagletooth Johnson
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-04-19 13:14:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Snagletooth Johnson
Khergit Deserters wrote:
This is a great leap forward. Scientific methods were used, so that makes it official. Now we can say it without being accused of being Commies, hippies, or conspiracy theorists.

Just becuase you have a study, doesn't mean you're somehow not a commie, hippy or loon.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#20 - 2014-04-19 13:46:17 UTC
Snagletooth Johnson wrote:


A shoe on any other foot is still a shoe.



....but it depends on who designed it.

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