You ask, "What is that fool talking about? The United States is and always has been a democracy."
WRONG !!
The United States, at its founding, was a republic. I am sure you all have heard this story: Just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman's inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it."
We managed to keep it for about 90 years, depending on how you count. Assaults on our republic began almost immediately after its creation. For the most part, most of them were defeated and our republic survived.
The assault began after the War Between the States (not civil war) with the addition of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments the enemies of our republic turned the tide and began undoing all the work our Founding Fathers and early patriots fought and worked so hard to win for, not themselves, US!!
And we began our trek down the road to democracy.
Until the "progressive" movement came on the scene in the closing years of the 19th Century, the way of life our founders envisioned for us was being built.
Teddy Roosevelt who became known as the "trust buster" was a leader of the progressive movement.
Then, along comes another progressive dream, the income tax.
For the first half of the 20th century the country was governed (ruled) by progressive-marxist-socialist. Just as we have now. Harding, Coolidge and Hoover are the exceptions.
And we traveled farther down the road to democracy.
What is our money really worth?
In the election of 1896, the Free Silver forces supported Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan; Republican candidate William McKinley ran on a platform that included backing paper money with gold. McKinley was supported by businessmen who believed the adoption of the gold standard would stave off inflation and help the country achieve economic prosperity—McKinley won the election. In 1900 he made good on his campaign promise, signing the Gold Standard Act into law.
Gold remained the standard of the U.S. monetary system until early in his presidency, on April 5, 1933, F.D.Roosevelt,democrat, signed Executive Order 6102, which ordered people to turn in their gold to the government at payment of $20.67 per ounce because the U.S. could no longer guarantee the value of the dollar in gold. The executive order enabled the Federal Reserve to expand the nation's money supply without regard to gold reserves.
We have left our republic in the dust and arrived at a democracy. Now to advance to socialism. Don't fear, it's just a short step.
We continued plodding down that road at a steady, but when compared to 2009, slow gait until August 15, 1971.
What happened on August 15, 1971 you ask. President Richard M. Nixon, republican, order his Secretary of the Treasury, John Connolly, democrat to remove all ties of the U.S. dollar to gold.
This was done allegedly to prevent "speculators" causing wild fluctuations in the value of the American Dollar. Which was probably true but misguided. By removing all value of the dollar to gold, Nixon and Connally provided cover for the damage Lyndon B. Johnson (democrat) did to the dollar by attempting to prosecute two wars (Vietnam and Poverty) simultaneously. He lost them both and with the assistance of Nixon, left us at the door of socialism.
Read what a Member of the House of Representatives has to say.
We are not quite there yet, but close.
By aiding and abetting each other a democratically elected democrat congress (elected in 2006) and a compassionate, conservative, democratically elected republican president led us to the brink of economic meltdown.
So, they decide to get together and help.
What does our democracy do next?
Why elect a full blown marxist-socialist-democrat, of course.
One last thing:
Our military training manuals used to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. The following comes from Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.
DEMOCRACY:
* A government of the masses.
* Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
* Results in mobocracy.
* Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.
* Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
* Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
REPUBLIC:
* Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
* Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
* A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
* Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
* Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
* Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.
The manuals containing these definitions were ordered destroyed without explanation about the same time that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. Almost overnight F.D.R., the most popular president this century (elected 4 times) looted almost half of this nation's wealth, while convincing the people that it was for their own good. Many of F.D.R.'s policies were suggested by his right hand man, Harry Hopkins, who said,
"Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference".
