Anyone still think we live in a democracy?

[vetwife]

2000 was crazy...2002 was crazier...This is beyond belief !

[Indiana_Dem]

1. I am wondering..... nt

[are_we_united_yet]

2. No

I would certainly not call this a democracy.

[kokomo]

25. It has become a THEOCRACY! Goddamit

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Something is dead wrong.

I cannot begin to say what. I don't have that information. But something is dead wrong.

[eleonora]

4. this is a fucking circus mastered by malicious politicians

grrrrrrr

[dave502d]

5. How many more we don't know about.

[Borgnine]

6. Nope.

Not since 2000. And we were worried about Y2K. Pfft.

[linazelle]

7. It's terrible...even when Kerry wins, he'll catch hell becauseof the

way this whole thing has been handled. They're robbing him of his rightful mandate and they've stolen the legislature from him.

[ramapo]

8. Mediaocracy, corpocracy

Democracy? No not really...however * is ahead in popular vote which doesn't give me much confidence in my country...

Time to hunker down and find a new hobby:(

[JPJones]

9. Democracy ended in 2000. Now stop asking so many questions. n/t

[SmileyBoy]

10. Is it really a democracy when one party controls everything???

No it isn't.

Several weeks ago, my father told me we weren't in a democracy anymore. I was reluctant to agree. But now I have to agree with him.

[Hobarticus]

11. Yes, we do. A fucked-up, ass-backwards, monster truck rally democracy

But a democracy nonethless.

Sigh.

[PATRICK]

23. Like Frankenstein is a "human"

And don't argue with him. Democracy? Hardly? Diseased, blinded, but unfortunately a history too of such "blemishes". Hell, 2/3 of the country would have gone back to King George if the Revolution had turned a bit tough. Many Revolutionaries had mixed motives, even conservative ones. Hoo-boy, idealism is a minority or a stage of growth for some adolescents.

Hey, you can smile wisely, nod like a doddering idiot how things go around and around and around and it's just the way things are.
Tough to see decadence into disaster when you're practically speaking dumber than your dog. Things don't say the same. They get worse until the whole thing collapses under sheer dumbness. The planet cannot sustain good old imperfect lovable human shenanigans forever. History certainly hasn't. But boy do Americans have a lot of illusions, toys and confidence.

[Loki]

12. this country has become ugly

[Toby109]

13. Not since November 22, 1963. n/t

[truebrit71]

17. You hit the nail squarely on the head...

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[Octafish]

21. What Toby109 said. Here's PROOF.

How's this for plausible deniability?

Within MINUTES of JFK's murder George Herbert Walker Bush has already called the FBI to point suspicion at a young repuke.



Here J Edgar Hoover has a memo describing what "Mr. George Bush of the CIA" had to report on the assassination: Anti-Castro Cubans are cleared.



SOURCE:

http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm

[PatriotGames]

14. A jury-rigged democracy.

[mmonk]

15. No

Our constitution and Bill of Rights is not currently in full force. bush will appoint a few Supreme Court Justices and don't forget privitization of SS among many things. The military industrial complex will get bigger while the rest of the industrialized countries get stronger than us economically (EU). I see no positives right now for us as a country or my family.

[high density]

16. I guess we live in some sort of right-wing

anti-science faith-based bullshit society.

I am quite amazed by the numbers tonight.

[chefgirl]

18. Nope

This is not America

[Triana]

19. That went to Hell in 2000, sweetie (n/t)

[Catfight]

20. fucking beautiful...this is the best democracy we can provide and lets

make sure we fucking spread this shitty voting system like florida throughout the world.

[PatriotGames]

22. I'm losing faith as the minutes tick by.

[leftofthedial]

24. nope

this is 1984 Oceania

[kori]

26. No This appears to be a theocracy

The bright side is, if Kerry loses, which I pray to god is not true..... hmmmmm that theocracy thing again..... Then Bush has to get out of his own messes. There is 2006 then 2008 to look forward to. The positive thing is THEY CAN NOT BLAME US WHICH THEY WOULD. God help us to survive that long, there is that theocracy thing again.