Why do people keep saying that America is a democracy?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-24-2006, 09:59 PM

That's what they have been teaching in High Schools since the mid 60s?

I got out just in time.

9th Engineer · 09-24-2006, 10:47 PM

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9th likes the bootstrap-pulling idea, but he should at least acknowledge structural impediments. Capitalism is not "fair" in any sense, otherwise there would be no such thing as profit. But should it be "fair?" That is the question.

I'll admit to that, and I certainly will acknowledge the existence of structural impediments. I wrote a pretty long piece on the whole thing here.

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That's what they have been teaching in High Schools since the mid 60s? I got out just in time. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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