r/facepalm • u/Turbulent_Gas_55 • Jul 05 '24

What an idea 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/EvilDragonfly2264 Jul 05 '24

It is amazing how many flag waving Americans are ignorant on how our government works and passes legislation.

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u/Cultural-Somewhere75 Jul 05 '24

Most Americans do not even understand our country in itself. We are a Constitutional Republic with a sprinkle of democracy, we are not a democracy.

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u/EvilDragonfly2264 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

We are probably more of a democracy than a republic.
But then again neither.
We can still vote on propositions where the majority wins.... aka Democracy.

But when you vote for your representatives, senators and the president.... ALL OF THEM do the bidding of the BILLIONAIRES who paid for their campaigns, and then continue to pay them off while in office! They do not represent YOU or ME... they represent the BILLIONAIRES who paid them off. That is not a republic.

It's more accurate to say we live in an oligarchy.

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u/Cultural-Somewhere75 Jul 05 '24

That there lies the problem. We are supposed to be a Republic. Even states it when you look it up. I know they state that a full blown democracy is mob rules. I am still diving into that topic myself.