Posted: Dec 18, 2007, 7:21 AM CST
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Could you explain how our democracy never really worked or will work? Just curious about your reasoning.
I'll be the first to say that our democracy has been undermined by people who abuse their power. You could say that about any form of government anywhere.
Hi Lionheart, a democracy can never be built on lies, genocides, and falsification of history, neither can it work if it is only for the few; the big and powerful.
American history has been since its inception a series of mass killings at home and abroad, from the native Americans who today are treated like wild fauna in nature reserves, to slavery of blacks and others, to continuous killing in Latin America, Asia and Africa,the numerous coups d'états against sovereign governments, even democratic ones.
Millions of Americans have no health care; health and education only for the ones who can afford it, justice for the poor, and justice for the rich.
Lobbying, (see above) is the dictatorship of the rich and powerful over everyone else, is the rule in the US.
No normal citizen can be president if he or she has no financial support of the powerful lobbies.
None of the successive US governments has repented by apologizing to the the black Americans or the Indians, because they are still not considered equals.
You have in almost all cities memorials for the holocaust, but not one for either black or Indians.
You can't call such a system a democracy.
My humble opinion.