Do we live in a dictatorship?

Question

Do we live in a dictatorship? I always thought the US was a democracy? Then why is our president disregarding congress, the Iraq study group, as well as the American people. Dick Cheney himself said "The president has made his decision," and that "We need to get the job done." Contrary to what everyone else wants. Does this not sound like a dictatorship to you?

Answer 1

Uh, no. The president was elected to lead the country based on what he believed to be the right thing to do. Just because the majority (is it really?) have changed their minds about it, doesn't mean it isn't the right thing to do regardless.

There is no law, no precedence where a president has to do something because a majority of congress or of the people think he should do something.

Stop being silly. In a real dictatorship, those who defied the president would have been silenced. Read history and learn. It would serve you better than to listen to partisan twits feeding you a bunch of BS.

Answer 2

We the people have been conned into thinking that the U.S. is supposed to be a democracy. It's not! This nation was founded, and the Constitution is based on, this nation being a Republic. A Republic! A Republic! Not a democracy. Abe Lincoln wanted a democracy, and 13 states said No! 11 states succeeded and old Abe attacked. After he forced the issue at Ft. Sumter. The South lost...and since then the idea of a democracy has been force fed to the American people. And we're buying it.......

Answer 3

Come on, a bit mellow dramatic.
He is an elected executive. He is hired to make executive decisions. You had your chance to fire him in 2004.
Congress controls the money and they have passed every increase in allocation. If they had if they passion in their convictions or an actual solution they could get their way.
The truth is that we are fighting a very tough war that most of congress and the informed American people know we must win.
The time for debating whether we should be at war or not is over. We are at war. And. As hard as war is on the nation, we need to understand how much harder it will be if we lose in Iraq.
Let's focus winning a war right now and throwing the bums out in 2008.

Answer 4

truthfully, we don't help dictatorships. you additionally could have an interest to hearken to that Sandra Day O'Connor as quickly as mentioned that our u . s . a . replaced into slowly turning out to be a dictatorship. (Who could ever think of that a Republican-appointed former acceptable courtroom justice could say one in each and every of those component a pair of Republican-ruled government?) additionally, i do no longer help Chavez's regulations, yet a lot of people here seem to forget the reality that Chavez replaced into DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED. no longer basically that, yet during the early 70s, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically-elected leftist chief of Chile, Salvador Allende, and helped replace him with a outstanding-wing dictator, Augusto Pinochet, who grew to alter into infamous for his a number of human rights abuses. could the U. S. overthrow democratically-elected leaders of different international locations and replace them with dictators who're friendlier to US agency pursuits? someway, one in each and every of those thought only looks un-American! EDIT: truthfully, Iran is lots from Communist. it extremely is a theocracy, and the theocracy got here approximately, by way of fact it had the help of fairly some Iranians who have been disgruntled with the Shah's westernizing, secularizing regulations. there are in all probability fairly some Iranians who're nevertheless happy that the Shah replaced into overthrown and replaced via the theocratic regime.

Answer 5

You need to study government to understand the question. The power to wage war is vested in the president, once congress declares war, which it has done. The founding fathers knew enough about war, that congress was not suited to carry out the war, they gave that duty to the "Commander in Chief".

There are many aspects to war that only the military is privy to. The one lesson from Vietnam that they are trying to implement here is keeping congress out of the war. The one lesson the American people did not learn from Vietnam is how easy it is to fall victim to our enemy's psychological warfare propaganda. They are winning that part of the war hands down... again... sigh.

Lincoln had similar problems with the war he fought. It is a common problem during wartime for the population to disapprove of the actions of the commander in chief.

Please get a better understanding of our government before you vote for any of them!

Answer 6

Not yet, not QUITE yet, but with the elemination of habeas corpus protection, the Constitution has no force or effect if the Bush Adminsitration is not held accountable for its violations of fundamental first amendment rights and our protections under the law. A am very much alarmed at how much power Bush has siezed. We are nearly into a police state where American citizens can disappear forever...at the whims of the executive branch.
Reminds of of Germany - 1934.

Answer 7

I was going to use exactly all of the statements you so eloquently made.
Sounds more dictatorial to me!
But I am still proud to call myself an American.
Let's hope some in his own party can get through to the man!

Answer 8

We're only a couple of "Patriot Acts" away from it.

I don't think Bush or Cheney have ever even read the Constitution.

Answer 9

No,we are free despite what our political views might be.

Answer 10

The USA is a Democracy.....................................