How would the world be different if America really was a democracy?

Question

And America's anti-war liberal majority actually set the agenda, instead of being marginalized by the corporations and imperialists in Washington?

Answer 1

If so, we'd have 3 things:

Universal Health Care

We'd be out of Iraq

And government would be more open for the GLBT community

Answer 2

A Democracy (ie Liberal)

The chief characteristic and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority. In a Democracy, The Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.

A Republic (ie Conservative)

A Republic, on the other hand, has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general. The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term "the people" means, of course, the electorate.

The people adopt the Constitution as their fundamental law by utilizing a Constitutional Convention--especially chosen by them for this express and sole purpose--to frame it for consideration and approval by them either directly or by their representatives in a Ratifying Convention, similarly chosen. Such a Constitutional Convention, for either framing or ratification, is one of America’s greatest contributions, if not her greatest contribution, to the mechanics of government--of self-government through constitutionally limited government, comparable in importance to America’s greatest contribution to the science of government: the formation and adoption by the sovereign people of a written Constitution as the basis for self-government.

Answer 3

We would have cars that got 100 miles to the gallon. We would have a population that cared about thier government and a government that cared about thier citizens. We would have evironmentally friendly homes. We would have all this and more. We would have Utopia.

I'm reminded of a song by Tool.

"Silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they forge a blade, and where there's one they're bound to divide it....right in two..."

Any government will become corrupt, even a democracy. It's a failing of mankind, not of democracy.

Answer 4

Moon landing Cuban Missile disaster / chilly conflict great melancholy JFK assassination WWI, WWII, Korean conflict, Vietnam Polo Vacine Kitty Hawk ny project telephone autos Interstate Highways television Alaska-Hawaii + Others

Answer 5

Don't know... but, dang, I love to hear that Commie-speak. It's sooo quaint. Oppressed masses, proletariat, chains of the oppressor, bourgoisie. In the modern world, it's as dated and moldy as the long-pickled Lenin is in Red Square. Heck, even the Chinese are becoming the fastest growing capitalist nation.

Answer 6

We may never know. America went to war in Iraq on behalf the very corporations you speak of. US citizens are sacrificing their lives, while CEOs of defense contracting companies are raking in billions of US tax payer dollars.

Answer 7

if by democracy u mean telling the truth and how ppl truly feel, it wld b like watching Barnie.

Answer 8

We would have a surplus in the treasury, and our businesses would be doing better. Just ask Bill Clinton. We would have lower unemployment rates. We would have more effective welfare. We would have more civil rights, even for the gay community.

Answer 9

So you mean if we lived in a communist dictatorship? That's basically what most people mean when they bring up America not being a "democracy." America is a democracy and no, corporations aren't hurting the government. It's the other way around.

Answer 10

It is and you are drinking to much koolade. Peace