Leland Jackson wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Based on what I'm seeing and hearing, congress has become a club
> where legislators that get on board the machine, will in turn be
> helped when it's time for re-election. Duty is then pledged to the
> machine; rather, than to the constituents who elected the
> congressman. This has turned Democracy upside down.
>
> Democracy is designed to vest political power in the people who speak
> their will through their representative.
Hi Leland!
Benjamin Franklin said that our system was a "Republic", which is not
exactly a democracy, and it looks like he was right. The liberals keep
trying to make it a democracy but it would take a revolution to do that.
Since the liberals have no guns . . .
Regards,
Pete
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