Quote Originally Posted by bwillaub View Post
It's a democratic republic....not a democracy.
So very true. I don't know about you all but for someone not studiously inclined and a high school drop out I can definitely say I left public school with the idea of our country being a democracy and how great democracies were.

I can't ever recall any course of instruction hearing where the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were vehement opponents of democracy because historically all democratic systems of government had always ended in tyranny and chaos. But again I wasn't paying that much attention at the time.

Now with a newly piqued interest in US history I now know how the true characterization of a democracy can best be described.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb getting ready to vote for what is for supper.