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Originally Posted by Maximilian
But with a twist. You insist you are being robbed. I'm telling you aren't because you live in a representative democracy that you participate with (I'd imagine), vote for, and then collectively accept the results. That's not exactly thievery. If you still refuse to see that you aren't being robbed, I'd go somewhere where I'm not being so victimized. That's all.
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Read some history. Then tell us if we are a democracy.
What's the difference? According to my Merriam-Webster:
•Democracy — Government by the people; government in which the supreme power is retained by the people and exercised either directly (Ablsolute, or pure), or indirectly (representative).
•Republic — A state in which the sovereign power resides in a certain body of the people (the electorate), and is exercised by representatives elected by, and responsible to, them.
Articles I and II of the Constitution are very explicit: We choose representatives and they make the rules that we live by until its time to choose again. Thank God we don't have to run down to the townhall, the statehouse, or the nation's capitol to decide every question.
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