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Old 01-13-2011, 07:14 AM   #238 (permalink)
The_Jazz
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You sure you don't mean the Democratic party forcing abominations like Obamacare on us? Talk about sham democracy.
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I'm well aware we live in a representative republic (think that's the right term) and that the representatives aren't required to vote for what the people want.

However, when they don't, they get targeted to be voted out of office, as happened in 2010.
Then I agree with nothing in the first quote and everthing in the second. Referring to Obamacare as an example of a "sham democracy" demonstrates a failure to grasp the realities of the world that you corrected with your second statement. There's no sham. The system worked EXACTLY as it was designed to.
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