NO DEMOCRATS

@SunshineGirl What the democrats offer and want is not democracy.

@IM5688

Yep, they put the mock in democracy.

@SunshineGirl
Which is why this country was designed to be a Republic...

@SunshineGirl

“Scared of democracy” brings up an old memory.

I grew up in the U S segregated south, in the years when the Eisenhower courts were cancelling Democrat laws that prohibited Black Americans from voting. To circumvent Black American’s right to vote Democrats then devised a voter qualification test that had to first be administered and passed for the right to vote. It was a simple 5 or so trick question that had to all be answered correctly before being added to the voter registration.

I remember taking the test when first registering to vote. Before I answered the questions one by one, the person administration the test gave me the answers to make sure I passed, she even admitted they were trick questions designed to keep “Negros” from voting.

I remember asking myself the same question “why are Democrats so afraid of Democracy?” , and the answer was pretty obvious, they were afraid that Black Americans would vote for Eisenhower. Democracy only worked for Democrats if the voters could be counted on to vote Democrat.

@Heartlander This was when? 60 or more years ago? You must recognise that this is a world apart from current day politics. The only thing that modern Democrats have with the segregation era party is a name. They returned the first ever black president so clearly they do not hold those same views now.

What alarms me is the title of your post. You may well think that the opposition is ethically and politically deficient, but that is all the more reason to test your ideas on the debating stump and at the polling station. Imagining a polity without an effrctive opposition serms very dark and dystopian to me.

@wildbill83 I don't know why you Americans get so tied up with labels. We know that no modern state can or should emulate the ancient Greek cities. Society and ideas have developed over three millenia. A more modern interpretation of democracy is "government of the people, for the people, by the people", which I don't think many would find objectionable.