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Title: US nowhere near the democracy it claims to be: Analyst
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URL Source: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/ ... -democracy-government-shutdown
Published: Jan 22, 2018
Author: staff
Post Date: 2018-01-22 00:40:43 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 271
Comments: 2

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The US political system is not a real democracy because it allows the minority group to take over and rule, says an American analyst, citing the current power clash in Congress over a government shutdown as an example.

“We have a very odd form of government in the US,” Gordon Duff, an Ohio-based senior editor of Veterans Today, told Press TV on Sunday. “We were set up to look like a democracy but it is not a democracy.”

He made the remarks while discussing President Donald trump’s call on the Republican members of Congress to resort to the so-called nuclear option in order to end the ongoing chaos over government shutdown.

In yet another controversial tweet on Sunday, Trump accused Democrats of sacrificing military and border security in exchange for concessions on immigration laws and commended Republicans for hitting back.

The nuclear option, which requires the Senate majority leader to change the parliamentary rules, means Republicans would no longer need 60 votes to pass legislation and can do so with a simple majority.

Noting that Trump’s 2016 election was “impossible” given his loss of the popular vote, Duff said it was the Electoral College that elected the US president and not the American voters. PressTV-Trump urges ‘nuclear option’ over government shutdown US President Donald Trump thinks Republicans should bend Congress rules and end the ongoing shutdown by reducing the voting threshold required to pass next year’s budget.

It was the same story with the US Congress, where according to the analyst Republicans were in control despite having just 37 percent of the vote.

“They do that because Congress… makes incredible rules that allow it to violate any law,” he argued. “You cannot sue or arrest people in Congress.”

He predicted that Democrats would strip Republicans of their majority in the upcoming midterm elections and use the opportunity to “cover up the crimes of Congress,” something he said the legislative body has done “in better than a decade.”

“So, America is not a democracy by any means,” he said, adding that Trump’s actions were making clear the fact that the Republican Party “is nothing but the Israel lobby and organized crime.”

Despite having a 51-49 majority in the Senate, Republicans have had a hard time delivering on Trump’s campaign promises due to resistance from Democrats and a deep-running division within the party over whether they should distance themselves from the businessman-turned-president.

The GOP’s failure to line up behind Trump and his budget bill, which asks for a dramatic increase in military funding and border security, coupled with strong demands from Democrats for protecting immigrants, led to the government’s shutdown on Friday.


Poster Comment:

Zionist media keeps Americans in the dark about Israel's control of national politics through its lobby and most citizens aren't prepared to learn what's going on or work in election campaigns. Can't have a democracy as long as the electorate is ignorant and lazy.

ramsheyi@gmail.com... US is run by a mysterious underground behind-the-curtain force dubbed the Deep State. No-one knows the composition . But the members are mass murderers and warmonger mindless criminals. ' Honey-badgers' they call themselves . They pick up presidents, they organize false flags, they remove from the scene those they don't like. A hidden dictatorship that has nothing to do with democracy

[Democracy_Fairy_Tale] Of course its not Democracy, its a Democracy Fairy tale a Dog & a pony show..Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. Democracy is only a dream it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage......

Leonard Melton... The US is nowhere near the democracy that it claims to be? Well guess what ... the US is nowhere near many of the things that it claims to be, and as the land of the free and the home of the brave is the first major illusion to fail. If this country were actually the land of the free and the home of the brave, then the false-flag of 9/11 would be exposed for the lie that it is, and the politicians and mainstream media presenters would be held accountable as complicit in the cover-up of 9/11 and as accessories after the fact to mass-murder, genocide, and treason. Solving 9/11 ends the wars of terrorism upon the world today, because without the lie of 9/11, there is no justification for the wars based upon the lie of 9/11.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

Sorry sheeple: the US of A is a Republic not a democracy

Darkwing  posted on  2018-01-22   7:36:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Darkwing (#1)

Not much difference since law/policy makers are chosen by a minority of the population when only half of the population (usually) votes.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2018-01-23   2:43:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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