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Actually, it's a republic based on democratic principles ...
We could actually pass amendments to the constitution removing/altering such stuff as the "right" to free speech (1st amendment.) "Ron McKinnon" wrote in message . ca... "lardsoup" wrote in message ... What's your problem - you think you're living in a democracy or something? Shut up and do what the government tells you like a good citizen of a facist state. I'm not living in a democracy. It's a republic. Fascist state? Get real. The USA is a democratic republic at this point. A representative democracy. Democracy is about how the decisions are made, or the government is chosen; a republic is one of the forms such a government can take. Neither of these are guarantees of freedom. And fascism, though it is often associated with dictatorship, is more about the policies and practices of a government, being one that 'exalts' the nation, or the race, perhaps, above the individual'. But whether or not such a government becomes in the end a dictatorship, such a government could still conceivably have in the beginning been democratically elected. |
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