Poll: Democracy For or Against

[OohPooPahDoo]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

 

[Katzndogz]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

The Founders limitation on who could vote went a whole lot further than that.

BTW - conditioning the vote on paying a tax is unconstitutional and hence un-American.

 

[asaratis]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

I thought for a while you were smarter than that.

A true democracy is not good...nothing more than mob rule.

A democratic republic is good.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

I thought for a while you were smarter than that.

A true democracy is not good...nothing more than mob rule.

A democratic republic is good.

A democratic republic is a democracy.

 

[konradv]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

It was more restrictive than that. Landholders only.

 

[asaratis]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

That should be a criterion for voting today. A U.S. Citizen that ACTUALLY PAYS TAXES can vote.

That would put a substantial number of today's voters out in the cold. Obama would have lost the election.

 

[asaratis]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

I thought for a while you were smarter than that.

A true democracy is not good...nothing more than mob rule.

A democratic republic is good.

A democratic republic is a democracy.

Not true democracy. In a true democracy, majority rules ALL THE TIME!

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

It was more restrictive than that. Landholders only.

Most taxation would have been on land in those days.

 

[jwoodie]

Once again, Rope-a-Dope completely misses the point: Conservatives are true democrats who willingly accept the will of the people, no matter how stupid they are. Ironically, big "D" Democrats pursue winning elections (for the "greater good") at any cost, and use any means possible to negate election results they don't agree with.

 

[Toro]

Can't have freedom without democracy.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

I don't like forced choices, however I voted for democracy. Democracy as well as Capitalism work well as long as both are restrained. Lassiez Faire leadership leads to chaos.

 

[kwc57]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

The Founders limitation on who could vote went a whole lot further than that.

BTW - conditioning the vote on paying a tax is unconstitutional and hence un-American.

You do realize that there is no constitutional right to vote don't you? Amendments say what you can NOT base voter restrictions on, like race or gender, but it does not guarantee the right to vote to anyone.

 

[beretta304]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

Define the type of democracy that you're soliciting replies to.

 

[beretta304]

Poll: Democracy For or Against ?

I thought for a while you were smarter than that.

A true democracy is not good...nothing more than mob rule.

A democratic republic is good.

B-i-n-g-o

 

[konradv]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

It was more restrictive than that. Landholders only.

Most taxation would have been on land in those days.

Except that the other main source of revenue was tariffs. So, anyone that bought just about anything manufactured elsewhere was paying taxes, even though indirectly.

 

[Katzndogz]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

The Founders limitation on who could vote went a whole lot further than that.

BTW - conditioning the vote on paying a tax is unconstitutional and hence un-American.

It is now! But it was once felt that only stakeholders got a say. That meant male landowners. Slaves didn't pay taxes and women didn't fight in wars so they had no stake in where the tax funds went. If women were allowed to vote in 1776, they'd vote for free spinning wheels for all.

 

[konradv]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

That should be a criterion for voting today. A U.S. Citizen that ACTUALLY PAYS TAXES can vote.

That would put a substantial number of today's voters out in the cold. Obama would have lost the election.

Everyone except possibly some in non-sales tax states pays taxes. The other problem is that many that don't pay income taxes, as you seem to be alluding to, are retirees and young families, just as likely to be Republicans as Democrats.

 

[OKTexas]

Can't have freedom without democracy.

I think you got that a tad backwards.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Democracy is the best of all possible bad choices. Although the founders had it right when they limited to the vote to only taxpayers.

The Founders limitation on who could vote went a whole lot further than that.

BTW - conditioning the vote on paying a tax is unconstitutional and hence un-American.

It is now! But it was once felt that only stakeholders got a say. That meant male landowners. Slaves didn't pay taxes and women didn't fight in wars so they had no stake in where the tax funds went. If women were allowed to vote in 1776, they'd vote for free spinning wheels for all.

The Founders didn't limit the vote to only themselves because they felt only "stakeholders got a say" you fucking idiot. They did it because they thought blacks, women, and the white lower class were inferior to themselves.