Reply #23: Imagine that -- we never covered this in any of my poli sci classes

[Cats Against Frist]

Here's what I've always thought: The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic, which is one form of Democracy.

Though one of the above posters mentions that it is "frivilous" to add "Constitutional," I prefer to add it, simply because to change the Constitution requires a "super majority," which is distinctly different than "majority rule," which is VERY important in dealing with the tyranny of that majority.

For instance, as long as the Dems have 34 senators, the Gestapo can never change the Constitution. Of course it won't make that much difference if, by means of a "fillibustering-busting" 60 Republican majority, the GOP can appoint whatever partisan whack-job is the most delusional and most loyal to the King in every judicial position, and they can twist the words of the Constitution and lie about the intentions of the framers even more than they already do. They could completely write Thomas Jefferson, Rousseau, the Enlightenment, the Anti-Federalists and The Bill of Rights, right out of American history.

And then, modernity.

At any rate, much of this IS nit-picking over definitions. I do agree that we're still, in theory a "democracy," though that democracy has taken some pretty serious hits in the last five years. I believe that, right now, this is a nation ruled both by the zeal of right-wing intellectuals and ideologues, and the consent of their idiot consituency. I know you believe the GOP didn't cheat, and these assholes convinced their flock (hey, I didn't say it, the right-wing intellectuals did) to exercise their democratic right to vote back in the Church and Ruling Class.

Simple enough. So it's not really some of these various "-ocracies" until our right to vote actually is taken away. And I'm not saying that many peoples' rights haven't been trampled upon. I'm just being optimistic.