are people actually dumb enough to believe the president is the one making the decisions?

Question

not just the president... any head of state. does anyone out there know how the law of oligarchy works? how can anyone who understands the most basic principles of this law, still actually believe that an individual person, regardless of their position, is the major deciding force in the direction of the political system? am i the only one who sees this belief as completely ignorant and ridiculous? I'm not talking about any conspiracy theories.. I'm directly relating to the fact that established hierarchies have more determining factor in the fate of a political system thanh any elected leader? do you really believe voting makes a democracy? voting has nothing to do with democracy.... now im just sad :(

Answer 1

We do not have a democracy, and your assumption that it is an oligarchy is simply ignorant. We are not either.
See the following:
In the Pledge of Allegiance we all pledge allegiance to our Republic, not to a democracy. "Republic" is the proper description of our government, not "democracy." I invite you to join me in raising public awareness regarding that distinction.
The distinction between our Republic and a democracy is not an idle one. It has great legal significance.

The Constitution guarantees to every state a Republican form of government (Art. 4, Sec. 4). No state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one dedicated to "liberty and justice for all." Minority individual rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil rights. The people are protected by the Bill of Rights from the majority. One vote in a jury can stop all of the majority from depriving any one of the people of his rights; this would not be so if the United States were a democracy. (see People's rights vs Citizens' rights)

In a pure democracy 51 beats 49[%]. In a democracy there is no such thing as a significant minority: there are no minority rights except civil rights (privileges) granted by a condescending majority. Only five of the U.S. Constitution's first ten amendments apply to Citizens of the United States. Simply stated, a democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Socrates was executed by a democracy: though he harmed no one, the majority found him intolerable.


End this seditious behavior. Take a civics class in government.

Actually do something to make our country greater instead of whining. It works, always has, always will, because of people who DON'T do what you are doing.

This is his direct response to me by email, and my public response:

sleepingtao: actually.. you're the ignorant one. im not american, thanks for assuming i was, but im happy not to be.

mckenziecalhoun: I did not insult him, nor call him ignorant. One specific thing he wrote was called ignorant. He turns it into a personal attack. I am pleased he is not a citizen, but even more pleased he is not talking about our country specifically.

sleepingtao: there are presidents of different countries all over the planet.

mckenziecalhoun: Absolutely agree. Unimportant as well.

sleepingtao: secondly, im a political science major, and the law of oligarchy is an established fact that presents itself in every political system. i never said anything about the USA in specific, so you completely wasted your time lecturing about something that had nothing to do with what i was talking about.

mckenziecalhoun: Since he does not specify the country and is seemingly incapable of generalizing my comments to the general situation, I will make it easy by adding the following: I am sorry your country has such a poor government. Perhaps you should join the U.S.A., where we do a better job.

sleepingtao: next time you want to jerk off your ego, learn to read first. ytou may be surprised to go over my question again, then compare it to your answer. they are completely unrelated and you wasted my time. please dont waste any more of it by responding to this.

mckenziecalhoun: Fortunately, we have free speech in the U.S.A. and can respond at will. Our votes in our country work, and since Yahoo! Answers is United States based you are wasting the time of a majority of us when you fail to specify what you are referring to and make general comments about governments that simply don't apply due to your "sadness". That and the name-calling are hardly enlightened debate.

sleepingtao: have a nice day. and ask a political science professor about how the law of oligarchy is established in any political system."

mckenziecalhoun: Despite the poor manner of this email, I have no reason not to respect this wish, and will do my best to explore the idea, though I already agree. It was the idea that voting doesn't make a democracy that I found silly, and still do. A good look at any dictionary will make that clear, and my comments about our own system (U.S.A.) were to make clear OUR position on the issue.

If sleepingtao wants more specific answers from specific people, it is best to state the fact rather than attack people who respond with specific answers to carelessly asked questions, particularly those that insult any one who may disagree within the very wording of the question itself:

sleepingtao: "are people actually dumb enough to believe the president is the one making the decisions?" This asked by someone who is not using capital letters to start sentences, doesn't use a capital letter to start 'president' (assuming most countries do), and insists that he doesn't want to hear any response to insulting emails.

He's in the wrong website if that's the case.

Answer 2

Ask yourself who advises the president. My own opinion is that a C Student from Yale who doesn't bother to read the papers and spends a lot time brush hogging it in Crawford, where he chooses to live, isn't quite capable of making all of the decisions required of a president.

Now Dick Cheney...there's a thinker...a very dark thinker...but his brain functions.

Answer 3

save in ideas this god is likewise meant to entice close each and every thing, which potential she would could draw close each and every accessible circulate over each and every of the ten^80 debris contained in the universe at each and every tiny fraction of a second (to decline longer something of the subatomic debris, that are frequently fairly significant for chemical interactions). Multiply by utilizing 14 billion years. The combinatorial explosion that takes position once you ask a god to be all-powerful is of obscene proportions.

Answer 4

I see you have heard of the Bilderberg Club... They run the world!

Answer 5

I'm sure Bush thinks he is PRICK

Answer 6

i'm sorry. : (