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A socialist democracy run by thieves, voted into office by 40% non-taxpayers. That make us; the producers, slaves about 6 months per year.

The word is "empire."

“End Imperial Presidency,” Idea # 571,

http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/3161-4049

It's looking more and more like a Social Democracy with a leaning towards Fascism.

A Russian Political Scientist recently stated that the USA was changing to socialism at "Breath Taking Speed"

I think we have a government unlike any in the history of the world at present, being transformed into the vision of a very strange little man.

But a very old idea at that is what he strives for and known to be a loser for the people and winner for the super rich as it was done in every communist nation on the earth.

This crap he calls change is nothing but the old bs of Marxism

I do not think he recognizes any power in existence greater then himself.

No law, no Constitution is his guide or limit as he does not respect any written law he does not agree with.

One day he will have a very rude awakening thinking as he does about himself.

As Gore Vidal has pointed out, what we have is a National Security State, run by the corporations for their profit. Not too far from National Socialism but with a weaker executive who won't go off and invade Russia. Proving that private industry is no more efficient or prescient than govt, the American Enterprise Institute and the neocons never realized that Iraq would be almost as big a disaster as Russia was for Hitler. The State Dept. and the military knew it, but they were overruled.

Our government was originally a Federated Republic. In theory it still is but as the states become less and less like countries (which they were oginally considered to be) we have a hybrid system, Federated Republic when it comes to voting and One Nation when it comes to reality.

Here is what Karl Marx said:

“There is only one way to kill capitalism — by taxes, taxes and more taxes,” wrote Karl Marx

Lenin said:

“The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation,” wrote Lenin.

Norman Thomas said:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing what happened,” said Norman Thomas.

Now you might understand what is going on with this current government!

In my opinion we are heading to Fascism....

Facism is in the US with a TWIST...we have turned electricity into a weapon of torture being used on lawabiding US citizens. It's called electro-magnetic

attacks and the weaponization of it was done by NSA...

so swears Julianne McKinney, former NSA manager who, in horror, quit her NSA job and began HELPING THE U.S. CITIZENS WHO WERE BEING TARGETED AND USED AS "EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS". At the time I first contacted her, she had quit her NSA job and launched a website (mindjustice.org), then when the attacks on herself became too dangerous, turned over mindjustice.org to Cheryl Walsh and began working out ways we few thousand victims could SURVIVE. Pres. Obama and Podesta have completely TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT U.S.A. CITIZENS NOW DYING AND HUDDLING UNDER TENTS, HELMETS, HEAVY GLOVES, AND SHIELDING ENTIRE ROOMS AND HOUSES FROM THE DANGERS of burning flesh (blisters, bleeding...) and then suffering from 24-hour auditory harrassments bounced off our brains, buzzing our ears, trying out all the latest "brainwashing" control techniques. OBAMA uses this technology to get completely painless auditory help with his speeches. But old retirees, men with families, and women of highest achievement have been given LIFE-THREATENING conditions like heart attacks, like being knocked around and thrown off balance, and murdered by our own US government. The LIST of victims on FFCHS site is growing rapidly. Read it and weep. Then grab Obama by the hand and shake him up until he STOPS THE TORTURE OF C.I.A. in the U.S.A. The definitive diagnosis is when the ELECTRICITY ON YOUR STREET GOES OFF and your ears stop buzzing, you feel as if you've been "born again" to life. This technology also allows 24-HOUR SURVEILLIANCE of ANYONE ...in violation of CT CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

Democracy Versus Republic

These succinct definitions of what is Democracy and what is a Republic was produced by the US Army in 1928, These definitions have been quietly withdrawn since, soon after.

Democracy:

A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demagogism license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

A certain Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: " A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."

A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.

Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.

Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of:

an executive and

a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create

a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize

certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."

A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief:

Democracy:

a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.

b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences

Republic

a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.

b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.

Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals.

The difference between Republic and Righteous Republic is that in the Republic the Government rules according to the law set up by men, in the Righteous Republic the law is the Law of God. Only in the Righteous Republic it can truly be said "One nation under God" for it is governed under commandments of the only One True God and there is no pluralism of religions.

Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered.

Mobocracy: 1. Political control by a mob. 2. The mass of common people as the source of political control.