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Journeyman

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2. You'd be hard pressed to find any period in our history where the demise of democracy wasn't. . .

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 05:52 PM

Mar 2015

an undercurrent to every discussion of our future -- even Washington's contemporaries decried our slipping towards monarchy.

We have many problems, no doubt, and challenges galore before us, but pooh-poohing our eminent collapse instead of focusing on our options seems the more prevalent tone at DU, and has since I signed up 14 years ago. Mores the pity.

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American democracy is doomed [View all] KamaAina Mar 2015 OP

Well we've already been declared an Oligarchy daredtowork Mar 2015 #1

Has been for decades. truebluegreen Mar 2015 #4

You'd be hard pressed to find any period in our history where the demise of democracy wasn't. . . Journeyman Mar 2015 #2

It is inevitable, and I have been saying it for a while now. hifiguy Mar 2015 #3

I'd go so far as to say that...... AverageJoe90 Mar 2015 #6

Being a student of history, I cannot *quite* agree. AverageJoe90 Mar 2015 #5