re: The myth of American democracy

Why don't we just ask the dudes that created the country what they think -


"We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship."4 Hamilton, in the last letter he ever wrote, warned that "our real disease…is DEMOCRACY." - Alexander Hamilton


"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” After the Constitutional Convention was concluded, in 1787, a bystander inquired of Franklin: "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin


“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” - John Adams


democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

"…pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands…"


And this short video should be required viewing for every school-age child in America, every single school year -

why America is a republic not a democracy