Republic or Democracy? - THE US INDEPENDENT : THE US INDEPENDENT
The Webster-Merriam Dictionary defines the verb “corrupt” to mean:
: to cause (someone or something) to become dishonest, immoral, etc.
: to change (something) so that it is less pure or valuable
: to change (a book, computer file, etc.) from the correct or original form
In twenty-first century America our leaders consistently tout the United States as a “democracy”. For example, in McCutcheon v. FEC, 134 S. Ct. 1434 (2014) a five to four majority of the Supreme Court, relying on the notion that the United States was a democracy, invalidated restrictions on the elite’s ability to spend money to elect a legislature of similarly minded people. In like fashion, our most recent presidents (of both parties, Bush and Obama) have extolled to the world, all nations and and their leaders, the benefit of “democracies”; where “the people” can govern themselves.
Have our government officials forgotten? The United States is not and was never intended by its framers to be a democracy.
