Does the U.S. really have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?

Question

Does Dick Cheney think we do? Did his interview broadcast on ABC Sunday indicate that we don't? Did you know he said the war may be unpoplar, but that it doesn't matter, and that the White House will not change course no matter what election results are? Does this mean we really have a government of the politicians, by the politicians, and for the politicians? Is representative democracy a failure? Do we now have a dictatorship?

Answer 1

The answer would have been yes but when I read the rest of your questions I realized I was mistaken.

Answer 2

Until the American public wakes up and removes this treasonous Administration physically from office we will continue to fall deeper and deeper into Bush's Hell. This dictatorship has gained it's strength by spewing false information to the American public until now they gobble it up like warm pourage. They know nothing of Chem trails, ELF Towers, HAARP radio waves, subliminal suggestions, and the dozens of mind controlling devices used by this dictatorship and it's overall agenda. Nor do they care, it's not their kids who are dying for absolutely NOTHING!..You can show these kind of people the Twin Towers literally exploding like a volcano, then imploding into tiny little pieces and tell them that the jet fuel did the work of 25-highly trained Israeli's, all experts in implosions and a hundred others, but facing the truth is to hard for them, they are truly in denial. They are the ones responsible for the Dictatorship that we have for a government today! Hey, Every country gets the government it deserves !!

Answer 3

No, because "the people" can't be bothered to vote. They can't be bothered to THINK (it's much easier to just vote along party lines, if they vote at all), they can't be bothered to DEFEND LIBERTY (apparently thinking that tyranny is something you only read about in history books, or maybe newspaper articles about distant countries), and they can't be bothered to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for themselves and their government.

Of course Cheney -- or any other elected politician -- can claim that the government will do what it wants regardless of the will of the people, because the people have LOST their will. As long as they have enough tunes on their MP3 player and they have enough reality shows on TV to watch, who cares about government, voting, law, justice, or those other "make-you-think" topics? Keep people entertained, and they'll let the government lead them into hell.

Answer 4

Nope, we have a government that is run by businesses and special interests. The Iraq war is just a huge money making machine, you cannot expect the politicians to bite the hands that feed them....can you?

Answer 5

I thought we did until King Georgie and Slimy Dick took over the White House, now it seems we have a government of the corrupt, by the megalomaniacs and for Haliburton.

Answer 6

Yes, i think the U.S people do vote U.S politicians and elect them to rule over U.S people. Thus The People of US select US People to rule over US People.

The only problem that had put the entire world into trouble is the elected US Politician are trying to rules over the rest of world rather then helping US people.

Answer 7

We have a Representative democracy. We elsect our leaders who then decide policy till others are elected. There is no provision in the Constitution for national referenda on policy issues.

Answer 8

What we have today is government OF the people, BY the elected elite, FOR the wealthy men who put them in office. Lincoiln's words are very poetic, but had HE belived in goverment of the people, by the people, and for the people, he would not have gone to war to stop the southern states from leaving the Union, since it was their PEOPLE who voted to leave it.

Answer 9

US yes for the people.
Dictatorship no.

Answer 10

Only if the people are morons.
Which...hmmm, perhaps we do have a government of the people.