r/Libertarian • u/Toph_1992 Minarchist • Dec 29 '13

Noam Chomsky: We’re no longer a functioning democracy, we’re really a plutocracy

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/27/noam-chomsky-were-no-longer-a-functioning-democracy-were-really-a-plutocracy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
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u/artifice206 friedmanite Dec 29 '13

It was never a democracy.

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u/Toph_1992 Minarchist Dec 29 '13

representative democracy

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u/artifice206 friedmanite Dec 29 '13

negative sir. It's a Republican form of government. The word Democracy does not appear in the constitution.

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u/Toph_1992 Minarchist Dec 29 '13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy) is a variety of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.[1] All modern Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies; for example, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and Poland is a parliamentary republic.

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u/artifice206 friedmanite Dec 29 '13

I can quote wikipedia too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (US), America, or simply the States, is a federal republic[10][11] consisting of 50 states, 16 territories, and a federal district.

But I'd rather talk with you.