Is American Democracy a lie?

[MajinGoku]

Is our democracy rigged and both political parties just tools of a greater master to pass an agenda. Or are we a real democracy that isnt being controlled?

 

[shatterspinel]

It's a constitutional republic with democratic features. To call our government a democracy is a lie. The question is whether those democratic features are preserved by protecting the integrity of the voting systems and candidates themselves. If you want to question the integrity of the constitution, ask if laws are truly compliant. If you want to question the republic, consider who your politicians are and what laws are they trying to pass. What is executive and judicial power is there and are these powers balanced? Is there a large beurocratic element?

 

[God of Nothing]

Yes.
duh

 

[Troonos]

Yes, because we aren't and were never a democracy.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Technically no, practically yes. In the end no positive change can ever occur due to the uniparty holding the reigns of media and education which control the niggercattle hordes.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Always has been.

 

[Philier]

Mass welfare and mass migration destroyed every democratic system on the planet

 

[Chris_Stuckmann]

The core concepts behind it are lies, yes. Democracy being valid hinges on the idea that the "will of the people" and "the consent of the governed" are sacred godlike entities that can and will override everything else. In reality, the will of the people is constantly being manipulated and the consent of the governed is usually manufactured. Nearly every hereditary monarch in human history had the "will of the people" and the "consent of the governed" backing them up. King Louis XIV was extremely popular.

 

[Kapros]

The system works exactly as intended. There's nothing broken at all from that perspective.

 

[Verpa Teutonica Ingens]

Democracy is a lie, not by mere circumstance of American political corruption, but by its very nature: a synonym (more of a euphemism, really) for plutocracy. Political discourse is dominated by the slogans of "liberty", "equality", "fairness", and disagreements are limited to how they should be interpreted and prioritized.

As these ideals are being preached from the idiot-box, shouted atop the soapbox, and regurgitated into the ballot box, the merchant class uses its wealth to operate the apparatus of state. They don't do this via lobbying, of course, because if lobbying were their primary tool, then anyone talking about it would be shouted down as an "evil far-right Nawtsee". The news media is far more valuable: a bought politician can be voted out, but a bought population is unbreakable. The phrase "free press" couldn't be further from the truth: the press is neither free as in beer, being prohibitively expensive, nor free as in speech, being tightly controlled.

This won't last forever, though. Nothing lasts forever. The best word to describe the electorate of a democracy, as I would reckon, is programmable. A computer does exactly what the programmer tells it to do, not what he wants it to do, and not what his manager wants it to do. The intensifying heat of the American Republic's political aura is analogous to a software company replacing 90% of its developers with pajeets, followed by the inevitable consequences. We can plainly see that part of the population has become prone to bugging out and crashing at random intervals, while another part has switched to a competitor: Caesarism.

 

[We Are The Witches]

It's a somewhat genuine democracy in that as a political party, I want to appeal to the majority number of retards so that they vote me and I get into power to do my shenanigans.

Like these politicians literally look at people like sheeps, dumb, filthy idiots that need to be pleased with something they want to hear in order to get their support.

And you can do that with lies and propaganda.

 

[Demonslayer1776]

Democracy is a fallacy. It promises that the outcomes are the will of the people. It promises that your vote counts. Neither of these are true. It isn't the will of the people, its the will of whoever has the strongest propaganda machine. Your vote doesn't matter because it will always be subject to countless others. Each and every one is a statistical irrelevancy. The only thing that matters are trend lines and those are manipulated by talking heads. It only exists to deny responsibility. The founders of the US realized this and that's why there were so many restrictions at the founding. Its why you had to own land, its why we have electoral representatives instead of a direct vote for president. Every further step we've taken towards democracy has made this country worse.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Democracy is the worst system except all others ever tried. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is the idea that someone on the other side of the continent decides whether you live or die because there are more of them over there than over here. Democracy is the idea that Chris-chan's opinion is worth the same as Einstein's. Democracy is the rule of normalfags. Democracy is so great that no private company or organization runs under democracy.

 

[Overly Serious]

Empiricism is the only objective way to know something. I.e. to be certain of something one must test it and to test American democracy one must elect someone contrary to the interests of the institutions - then you know if you live in a democracy or not. Electing only someone that is acceptable to the institutions is not a test of democracy anymore than sitting in an aeroplane is a test of ones ability to fly.

So, in short: How has it gone when the American people attempted to elect someone contrary to the interests of the institutions?

 

[Annoying Orange]

Is American Democracy a lie?

Yes.

 

[someonenew]

This country is run more like a company.