What happen to Democracy?

Question

"Know That In Our Democracy Officers Of The Government Are The Servants And Never The Masters Of The People"
Franklin D. Roosevelt Our 32nd. President.
What happen to Democracy?

Answer 1

That's still in effect today. If you are a US citizen you have the right to vote and make a difference.

Answer 2

Once again Civics 101-the United States of America has never been a democracy, was not established in the Constitution as a democracy and really could never work as a democracy. The first two are simple-the U.S. was set up in the Constitution as and still is a republic meaning that people vote for people to represent them; in a democracy the people would vote directly on bills and laws without the middleman. The last is simply because of complexity of issues, population and it would soon be referred to as a dictatorship of the majority. Since things would be voted straight up or down then compromise and safeguards would not be there so it would be a very simple majority rules. As for FDR's quote-Very nice from a President who was concerned that his social programs might be ruled unconstitutional so he increased the size of the Supreme Court to make sure he had could appoint people who would agree with him. Not very much the way that a democracy or republic (both lower case) should work was it.

Answer 3

Actually, FDR is what happened to democracy.

Alexis DeTocqueville predicted that the United States would remain free until its politicians learned how to bribe the People with their own money.

That's what Roosevelt did with the WPA and a few other agencies. There were few, if any, counties in the entire United States that didn't get a huge building project, and thereby start building their loyalties to the federal government, rather than the state.

Answer 4

Putting together the teaching of democracy with the signs of American history in DC, I have come to several broad conclusions. First, young people, who had scarcely lived enough to understand what life is and who they were, died terrible deaths for our political ideals. Second, young people today are only minimally interested in exercising their political rights and duties and are mostly uninterested in exerting whatever effort is needed to make democracy work, certainly not dying for it. Third, as lofty as our ideals seem in the statements of those who have tried to make them real, there is an undeniable and obvious reality of something unlike democracy in America today. We have paid terrible prices for those ideals but what has the result been. The gains have consistently gone to the powerful and privileged few. All of this comes together dramatically in the memorial to FDR where we can remember a man who spoke to the issues of social justice and to the common good, out of necessity. Unfortunately, the ideal of freedom frequently gets carried away by the mighty few who understand that ideal merely as their own economic freedom -- all bought with the lives of young Americans.

Answer 5

Samuel Adams once said: "There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide."

Like the great Greek and Roman empires before us, the U.S.A. is on a downward spiral all because we've allowed arrogance, avarice, and hubris to set in; we have become lethargic, slothful, fat, amoral and far too comfortable.

"The preservation of our democracy is the intention of the Lord, but if we fight against God or ignore Him, He will withdraw His blessings and will wipe the wicked off this continent as He has done before." - Unknown

-RKO- 10/02/07

Answer 6

Well maybe if Roosevelt, the supreme leftist president (so far) in our nations history--maybe if he actually believed this, questions about what has happened to our democracy would not be coming up.

Answer 7

democracy is just a term politician's like to throw around. there is no democracy. if they have to they will vote a secret ballot in the middle of the nite. look at this war were in, the u.n. said hold off it don't look like Saddam has any weapons. president bush said i will go it alone if i have to.

Answer 8

We haven't lived in a democracy for a long time.

This is no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

It is now a government of the profit, by the profit and for the profit.

Answer 9

I think we are witnessing a progressive step in our democratic society. So much so that; when the pendulum begins to swing the other way we will see just the opposite of what we see now. I don't believe what is happening now is that serious because it's teaching us what not to do in the next millennium.

Answer 10

A fully functioning democracy requires an educated populace. We don't have one. We're not likely to raise one anytime soon.

Answer 11

Real Democracy has lost its meaning all over the World.
Change is inevitable, I guess.