It is no longer "We the People"

[BSAM]

It is no longer "We the People"

To be precise, it is now "we the bureaucrats".

 

[stockerup]

Quote from pspr:

The U.S. is a republic.

de·moc·ra·cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Show Spelled[dih-mok-ruh-see] Show IPA
noun, plural de·moc·ra·cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from stockerup:

The point that I am trying to make is that to truly love our country you have to love democracy. Democracy is a cornerstone for our freedom. If the media skews the truth with bias and ultimately persuades the vote, then it is no longer "we the people" that put our elected officials in office; but, rather, it is "we the media".

That's the problem with the left. They can't just have their own opinion, they feel the need to shove their agenda down everyone else throat. By whatever means necessary.

 

[stockerup]

Quote from Free Thinker:

just today:


Primetime coverage of global warming at Fox News is overwhelmingly misleading, according to a new report that finds the same is true of climate change information in the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages.
http://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-climate-coverage-93-wrong-report-finds-193433943.html
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Fox & Friends Flubs Data To Distort Obama’s Economic Record Again

Just two weeks after an apples-to-oranges comparison aimed at casting President Obama’s economic record in a dark light, Fox News is at it again.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/fox-and-friends-flubs-data-obama.php

Great sources: Yahoo and TPM. No bias there? You are helping to prove my point.

 

[stockerup]

Quote from Lucrum:

That's the problem with the left. They can't just have their own opinion, they feel the need to shove their agenda down everyone else throat. By whatever means necessary.

I agree. The scary part about this is that they are so blinded by their agenda that they don't give thought to the consequences.

 

[trendlover]

Quote from stockerup:

The point that I am trying to make is that to truly love our country you have to love democracy. Democracy is a cornerstone for our freedom. If the media skews the truth with bias and ultimately persuades the vote, then it is no longer "we the people" that put our elected officials in office; but, rather, it is "we the media".

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What is real freedom for the USA is the media have bias, yes. But all people of the USA can watch and listen and read all the people opinion. No government can stop you from reading all the opinions. You have freedoms to write and speak and read many oppositions. You have information sharings, rights of protection, no fears to have internet freedoms. A very excellent country!

 

[pspr]

Quote from stockerup:

de·moc·ra·cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Show Spelled[dih-mok-ruh-see] Show IPA
noun, plural de·moc·ra·cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.

Do they not teach you this in school any more?

The United States is, indeed, a republic, not a democracy. Accurately defined, a democracy is a form of government in which the people decide policy matters directly--through town hall meetings or by voting on ballot initiatives and referendums. A republic, on the other hand, is a system in which the people choose representatives who, in turn, make policy decisions on their behalf. The Framers of the Constitution were altogether fearful of pure democracy. Everything they read and studied taught them that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths"

http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html

 

[stockerup]

Quote from trendlover:

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What is real freedom for the USA is the media have bias, yes. But all people of the USA can watch and listen and read all the people opinion. No government can stop you from reading all the opinions. You have freedoms to write and speak and read many oppositions. You have information sharings, rights of protection, no fears to have internet freedoms. A very excellent country!

Well said. We do have an excellent country. The problem I am pointing out, however, is that the media can and does skew the truth in favor of their bias.

 

[stockerup]

Quote from pspr:

Do they not teach you this in school any more?

The United States is, indeed, a republic, not a democracy. Accurately defined, a democracy is a form of government in which the people decide policy matters directly--through town hall meetings or by voting on ballot initiatives and referendums. A republic, on the other hand, is a system in which the people choose representatives who, in turn, make policy decisions on their behalf. The Framers of the Constitution were altogether fearful of pure democracy. Everything they read and studied taught them that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths"

http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html

Call it what you will. The most important word you need to focus on in my post is freedom.