My age, my citizenship status. And then there is the fact that you are arguing me solely because I decided to state that it's not just majority opinion that matters. Which is an absurd concept.
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7.5 Million Americans Lost Their Religion in the Past Two Years
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My age, my citizenship status. And then there is the fact that you are arguing me solely because I decided to state that it's not just majority opinion that matters. Which is an absurd concept.
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
A democracy is mob rule. Majority wins.
A republic guarantees and protects your individual liberties....like freedom, property, speech. And the majority cannot take those liberteries from you in a republic, no matter how much they disagree.
Hold on, here:
Republic (noun): a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
Which is what I said -- Power of the people through their elected representatives.
The US is a democratic Republic that is correct, I am glad you payed attention in gov't class, did you just graduate this year? You are 18-20, at least. (insert sarcasm)
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
You're right. Politicians pander to pagans because their vote matters. What have politicians done to pursuade the pagan vote?
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
Very well. Than what didtinguishes a republic from a democracy?
Again, why are you arguing me solely based on the fact that you believe the only correct opinion is the popular one. Where did I state that pagans influence politics? This was never part of my argument to begin with. If you want to debate this more, keep your facts straight, and jump in the chat room ( I am getting tired of the alerts here).
The Electoral College for one.
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
You implied little groups have impact. I argued otherwise.
I argued that everyone who votes matters. Regardless of who or what they are voting for.
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
So how old are you? 17-22? If little groups matter, why aren't presidential candidates soliciting the pagan vote?
Again, my age is of no consequence. And I am in chat if you want to continue this discussion.
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
You are 17-22, probably not a US citizen and still fail to answer whether you would prefer to live in a republic or a democracy and why.
AmyintheBibleBelt
Active Member
What was your reason for joining the military again? Forgive me, I accidently deleted that response.
Cephus
Relentlessly Rational
They don't tend to vote as a bloc. Nobody actively courts the Jewish voters as Jews or the Korean voters as Koreans.
Mohammad Nur Syamsu
Well-Known Member
It means the USA is losing identity. Politics will then go towards becoming like Sweden, or any country of which the statistics look good. Extraordinarily good arguments will be found for the USA not to be leader of the free world. The cleverness of politics will increase, any courage or any emotion whatsoever will be done away with as unprofessional. Real Americans will start a new country in Africa or something to get away from the decay. First they go there to live to evade taxes, then they simply take control democratically and change all the laws to be good. The old USA will then by like Europe. The new USA will be an exciting country where the laws are made in such a way that no social security can run through the state. That you have to invest in a social community to have any social security.