Did anyone tell us democracy was easy?

Question

Well, CJ, can't give any stars yet, but you're so right.

Answer 1

Someone should clue the kids in that good democracy requires people to get involved.

Like anything else, you get out of it what you put into it.

Answer 2

Nope. And it sure aint. It is very hard to live in a society that is so free that everyone has the right to voice their concerns and to have to let them do it even when they are entirely opposite your own. Its very hard. But its worth it.

Answer 3

We are a democracy but we were a  republic I support the Republic of the United States of America not some d**n democracy. Mob rule is never a good thing look what happend to Athens in the end. At least the Roman Republic died defending itself. Athens was so d**n devided that it's citizens couldn't even figure out who to put in charge of there armies.

Answer 4

Hate to break it to you, but the United States does not have a democracy. Our constitution garuntees a Republic. in a Democracy the demos (people) vote on everything. Example if a bridge needed rebuilt in NYC the people in Oklahoma and the rest of the nation would vote to rebuild. that is a democracy having elected representatives means this country is a republic.

Answer 5

Democracy won't ever be achieved (let alone easily) because the word doesn't mean anything today.

In the dictionary definition, democracy "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." In the phrase of Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Look at the countries that call themselves democracies and democratic republics. Some of them allow votes only for a single party, but it's still government of the people by the people, bur not FOR all of them, just the few that govern!

Who exactly are "the people"? It's some people who are governing as well as the rest who are being governed. The theory is a paradox.

And the "free West" trying to foist its 'democracy' on other countries is another.

Getting rid of corrupt leaders by fair means or foul is the only solution. There's a long road ahead...

Answer 6

We are a republic with a representative form of government.

Ever notice the stats on the percentage of eligible citizens that exercise their right to vote?

When politicians waste our money as with earmarks and never ending stupid programs people become disillusioned and think it doesn't matter what they think or how they vote, nothing changes, corruption and waste continue, so the don't pay attention and they don't vote.