Comments by "Melissa Richter" (@MelissaR784) on ""Bad night for democracy": Pod Save America on the Biden vs. Trump debate" video.

Bad night for Democrats.
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 @ga6589 And where in our Constitution does it say it's a Federal democratic republic?
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@ga6589 According to the UN that's made up of people of authority that were not elected by the people.
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@ga6589 “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” Alexander Frazier Tyler
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@ga6589 But aren't we a Socialist democracy? That's what we became under Obama. We're more of a Plutocracy than a Democracy.
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