Re: OMG!

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <20010524133152.28817.00002328@ng-fc1.aol.com>,
 cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2) wrote:

> As a democrat who believes in the power,
> morality and justness of a true democracy
> (i.e. -> the will of the majority of the people)
> It's very clear to me that here in the USA on
> the federal level - we no longer live in a 
> democracy.  
> 
> We have a president who was appointed to 
> office by an elite power base of political controllers.  In most cases, the
> will of the 
> majority of the people no longer applies to 
> the desires of the this political power base collective in our federal
> government.  
> 
> What we have now in the USA is more of a 
> federal republic - than any thing else.  The 
> state of a true democracy for the USA seems
> to have slowly and progressively vanished on a federal level from around 1950
> until now.  I know
> a lot of people who simply do not like any of it,
> in the way it's all going.  So, get ready for it folks.
> I expect we are going to see a long and red hot summer, in more ways than I'd
> care to offer in this reply!

We've always been a republic...since day one.  We have never been a 
'Democracy'.

And it didn't start around 1950...it started in the '30s with FDR
increasing the power of the government.

We have a President who won the election on two legitimate counts,
there was four recounts done by the media afterwards, and Al Gore
won two and G. W. Bush won two...who's to say which one of them won
at that point.  Doing a full manual recount in Florida would have
been just about impossible...there were no standards for doing a
recount before the election, so it was up to each election board to
decide how to do the recount.  That was primarily what the Supreme
Court ultimately ruled on...that to do a recount under those
conditions would be unfair, mostly to the people of Florida.

Greg B.
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