Why do people keep saying that America is a democracy?
 

Why do people keep saying that America is a democracy?
We have never been one and I hope we never are.
We are a Representative Constitutional Republic... nothing like a democracy.
Mob rule is for lunatics.

Are you my American Way of War prof by any chance??? :eyebrow:

Strange class that would be. I would take it. You would not want me to teach it.

"American Way of War" smallpox infected blankets ???

Are you in ROTC? :whofart:

Hell, the Constitution doesn't even guarantee Americans the right to vote. We have the anti-patriot acts, and people monitoring our internet and phone conversations. Jr. is doing his best to make torture part of the status quo. I'd call America a police state in its early stages.

WRONG! This is a communist regime. Or so I've been told.

Because that is how it is taught in most of our public schools. It's a rare teacher that teaches it properly. Most of the teachers who could teach it properly are now either dead or retired.

My high school history teachers had been working since the 1950s, back when "social studies" was divided into things called "history" and "civics."

This is why they've been getting it wrong since the mid-1960s.

You lost me, Wolf. How does Gramsci figure into, getting it wrong since the mid 60s?:confused:

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- /python

The US is a giant Pong game...they just keep batting us back and forth between the playas. :o

Closer to an oligarchy IMO.

Do they teach it differently in private schools?

Why would anyone teach anything else? I took civics in public school BTW.