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  • This message is as applicable to 2012 as it was to 1946. I recommend everyone watch it all the way though.

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  • @ladyda22

    They didn't "take 'under God" out.

    It wasn't IN the pledge in 1946.

    That gutless fucking worthless prick Eisenhower authorized inserting it in 1953 or 54...

  • @konopelli 1954

  • @ladyda22 "Under God" was not added to the pledge of allegiance until 1954. Please do the research FIRST before embarrassing yourself in view of the world. If you're learning "history" from Glenn Beck and Fox "News," drop out of school. 

  • @ladyda22 The kids have been intentionally dumbed down due to decreased funding for the educational system which was signed into law by conservatives.

  • wow. this video should be required material in schools...

  • 7:15 -- she looks a little too happy.

    After watching this short educational film from 1946, I am becoming increasingly aware that the United States of America has arrived at, and gone beyond, the point of despotism. At 46 years old, Encyclopedia Britannica Films' "Despotism & Democracy" is frighteningly on target.

    Dear God -- how the mighty have fallen.

  • wow america is so low on the scale its not even funny i want to cry

  • Democray is Dictator=One Rule

    Republic is Union=The People

    Democracy is what you feed the mindless slaves of week hurd.

    Republic is a friut of its Own labor!

  • Despotism is pure evil, anti-American & anti-democratic!

  • This video is blocked in Bosnia...and in some other countries.

  • Last weeks Supreme Court decision about corporations, and political contributions makes this video downrigght scary.

  • Good catch, on the "under god"!

  • i saw the begining of this movie a LONG time a go; has been somewhat searching for it; finally FOUND IT!!

  • Need to put something like this in schools today.

  • well put!!

  • That's not the conclusion I drew at all.

  • what? This is exactiy what is going on in country!

  • You're in America, speak English.

  • Notice while reading the pledge they didn't say "under god". That was added later.

    1:02

  • yeah that was great.

  • 3:18 -- "BWAaaaahhahahahhhaahaha"

  • Great vid.

  • I'm sending this training video to the despots on the Property Owner's Association Board... Mandatory Associations Foreclosing in American ("It's the MAFiA, stupid").

  • This sounds like the U.S.A.

  • The plain and simple truth from a time before our minds were corrupted by modern mind control and propaganda.

  • The united states is not a democracy it is a republic. republics and democracies are two total different governments.

  • You realize that the U.S. is a democratic republic, right? The two terms are COMPLETELY compatible and are not contradictory.

  • @eric88eric88 what the fuck are you talking about we are far from a republic, we are a democracy, the fore fathers worst nightmare was becoming a democracy, we were a republic a looong time ago

  • @matt41083

    The fore fathers' worst nightmare was a democracy? I'd like to hear your reasoning behind that statement. If you stand by it so strongly, than you probably have a substantial bit of evidence to back that statement up.

  • @Copper4head it may not of been their worst fear but they did indeed fear direct democracy. "(pure) democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths" Madison

    "That a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this." hamilton

    on and on

  • @bluto212 My forefathers (Jefferson, Paine) could beat up your forefathers (Madison, Hamilton).

  • We have become our own enemy, the enemy of civilization itself.

  • Isn't it ironic that we have become what we once feared and fought against?

    What has happened to America?

  • Yes, My Father once told me the fight againt good and evil is a never ending battle, It would appear the USA is losing the battle, On it's own ground, By it's own hand!

  • @Mark1of4

    Let us fast-forward to the present. The USA has been losing in the battle between good & evil. However, it is neverending & there are a few new characters in play that (in the devastatingly chaotic grounds) make it so that the good side in that battle has a bit more strength. We have been falling, but we can still stand, and that is what we're doing right now. it just takes time. When a very large body rises, it takes a long time.

    (about as long as it takes to say hello in Entish.)

  • @Copper4head

    Well said!

  • The supreme court has ruled that the 50 states are countries with respect to each other but under the 14th amendment system you are participating in rebellion against your de jure country when you vote, through contract as well and that is why you have to pay IRS and so forth.. and are responsible for the national debt. watch all 6 vids for more info please watch watch?v=G1B33IvnJ4M&feature=ch annel_page

  • still relevant after all these years....are you listening mr obama?

  • Excellent

  • america today=despotism

  • iFLAGEDurVideo,

    "america today=despotism"

    Damn right on that!  That's to benefit the FEW like George W. Bush Jr., Dick Cheney, and their Jew Jesus GAY Ted Haggard Cronies!!

  • America for the last 30 years=despotism

  • Make that fourty years. As democrat rule has made it so.

  • Democracy inevitably leads to Despotism.

    The founding fathers knew this and that's why they created this country to be a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.

  • A fact the founding father believed this country to be a Democracy not a republic. Founding father is James Madison.

    He was the person who first came up with referring to America as a Democracy. He then reffered to it as a republic. Then again in his later life he came back to America being a Democracy.

    Conservatism and christofascism leads to despotism/fascism. Like what the republicans and religious crazies of today.

    The same the crazies who read left behind books today.

  • Yeah, there were alot of religious crazies and republicans in Soviet Russia, China and Cambodia, right Einstein?

  • the united states is not and never have been a democracy we are a republic with democratic elements according to the founders of our country pure democracy and communism are the same thing majority calls the shots period leaving the weak and minorities to be trampled example is your neighborhood decide that your house looks ugly and think a park should be built there instead just because it looks better since majority rules your house will be torn down for a park that is far from free or equal

  • They could never produce anything as honest as this in today's government!!!

  • I love these old propaganda films. It is so cool to see how the early science of propaganda, and how it worked.

    Of course today we are much better at it. But still it is cool to see.

  • I disagree. This video I regard as more progressive than our own views. Did you notice he said "the mere form of government" does not guarantee against despotism? Think about the PATRIOT Act and this video. I agree with all of the Communists in here though, property is theft.

  • land ownership is an outdated model

  • Agreed Eye4Knowledge! This video is a load of horse shit!

  • This video rings true even today. We can easily compare Hitler's holocaust with the United States use of fiat currency instead of purestrain gold. Google Ron Paul.

  • Depending on the borders, if you had fewer states with bigger populations and thus more electors, winning by a small margin in any of the states will grant you all the remaining electors, even though if the national "demand" speaks less for you in total, as in the case of bush, you're just happy as long as you create non-existent support with the winner-take-all system. And that's the purpose of the electors, they have no other purpose but diverting attention away from the flawed popular vote.

  • Democracy nowadays is Dictatorship in disguise. To bring REAL DEMOCRACY, think about this: "The More You Earn, The Less Your Vote Counts and Vice Versa" That is what Vote Sizing wants to replace the "1-person 1-vote" machinery of democracy which we thinks is outdated and counterproductive. Find out more from Vote Sizing Institute website.

  • if every americain and people arround the world would see that video and understand what is said, we would live in a safer world.

  • "This man studies these things.."

  • good film

  • This should probably go back into the grade school rotation. It is a great succinct summary.

  • America is so fucked.

  • @ohgoddamn Not completely: the flow of information is pretty much completely uncontrolled and unhindered in the modern USA thanks to the internet.

    You're right about the distribution of wealth, the concentration of power, and the general culture of disrespect, though.

  • @3Gyro That's one reason the Republithugs are trying to get rid of true net neutrality...

  • Seems like the things this video recommends, BETWEEN THE LINES, is what ends up leading to the situation we are in today.

  • BS.

  • It is within the wavering on these lines.

  • so did you not pay attention at all to this video or something?

  • Yeah, America is concentrating our wealth in the hands of as few as possible.

  • lol

  • Its not the American government that is doing that, it is the centralization of the private banks that loan and issue the currency that we all use: the Federal Reserve, through fractional reserve banking and compound interest. If we were to pay off all debt, there would be no money supply. Go watch "Money As Debt" on google video, and you will understand this better.

  • If we had a currency backed by Gold, in a savings based economy, and the government printed the currency and spent it, rather than loaned it, into the economy, we would have a debt free currency. Thus no need to tax so high, to cover budget short falls.

    Our government could then be limited, and protect the property, rights and persons of the nation. Have a malita, and collect enough money to run the government on tariffs from goods from other nations.

  • It`s also going on in Brantford,Ontario as well as other communities that felt the need to be more vindictive and vicious than the Province.

    Shame on Brantford!

  • Reminds me of what`s going on in Ontario,Canada.

    Thanks Dalton McGuinty.

  • as long as rents and homes dont drop 60% in price democracy will keep on dying till its gone take it from someone who has studied and mastered the occult for 21 years

  • democracy? there is no democracy!

  • there is democracy zannekin. in america we have the constitution! we can save democracy yet!

    vote on the National initiative for democracy

    go to Ni4D(.)us

    (hint* vote yes)

  • I actually lost Faith in democracy and I live in Europe "Flanders" even if we vote the political correct bandwagon makes sure nothing changes and thing get even worse its going to come at a point when all the people will think democracy is obsolete and take thing in they're own right and we go back to the 30's were everyone will go to the extreme political ideas to very unknown future of disaster or the greater good

  • Are there today any governments left in the world which would be considered democracies by the definitions given in this movie?

  • Amsterdam?

  • I agree...the European Union is definitely not democratic.

  • Its an EU dictatorship more like it, which is something tyrants have lusted after for hundreds of years: the annexation of power, land & wealth centralized in one powerful government. Now the United States is headed towards such a treaty as the North American Union is now coming into scope. Only an informed and active public can save the republic before we suffer the throes of a continental dictatorship such as the European Union. Long live the republic! Death to the New World Order!

  • It was actually Daneiel who had the vision. I think Revelation talks about it aswell. I don't remember.

    Daniel 2

    33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

    34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

    35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors;

  • it's not really a new world order, but rather a move into the open by the existing order. The leaders of the world are just making their power structure more official with the EU and NAU. We should not be talking about saving the republic, as the republic has become only a tool of the exploiters against the exploited. Long live the revolution!

  • no Amsterdam is my shangralah

  • Democracy = mob rule. 51% of the people decide over the other 49%, which is the tyranny of the majority ruling over the minority. That is why we live in a representative republic, where we democratically elect representatives to act as our voices in local and the house of representatives. Democracy does not necessarily lead to dictatorship. Dictatorships usually arise when these above signs of despotism are present.

  • Well Democracies always lead to socialism, which zaps men of their drive to succeed, then the taxes are raised, the yes man politicians and the oligarchies they serve get more and more absolute power, to the point of breaking the backs of the public, then anarchy follows, then a dictatorship, or in our case, a police state.

    Just like a Greece, men will be walking the streets demanding socialized food.

  • one problem with that "republic" you are dreaming about is...Representatives do not support our voice. Thats the sad truth. They do what THEY think is the right thing to do, and not what the majority of Americans want.

    Its worse than democracy. In fact...Germany was a republic as well.

  • more like an oligarchy, that pretends they're elected by the people. and more attention is put on the president, than the senate, of which the latter has far more power

  • this is not so true. There are different types of democracies. Our country happens to be a representative democracy. The majority vote is supposed to decide who represents that state, or whatever office is being held. The majority rule over the minority is another manipulation that Republicans like to use to try and convince people they are right. Its completely absurd. US is a democracy. Its not like class when the teacher asks those to raise their hand, and the highest number decide as u imply

  • The Problem is not the electors, it's the borders. Bush won with a smaller popular vote in 2000. Why? Because of the borders. If you think about it, the winner-take-all system in 48 states ensures that it'll always be impossible for no candidate of any other party and rather be possible for a candidate with less support than the other from either party to win the national vote. That's the true reason for the electors, to distract people from the absurdity of the system.

  • This movie isn't about democracy vs despotism, it is about socialism, redistribution of wealth, vs capitalism. The movie is promoting what the USSR used to be, not what The USA was founded on, and the media is complicit in the process. This movie is perfect for that process and It reminds me of the kind of crap Hitler used to spout. Pure communist propaganda. And you are falling for it, like most neophite lemmings in this country. That is how we were sold out, by you thinking its best for us.

  • "This movie isn't about democracy vs despotism, it is about socialism, redistribution of wealth, vs capitalism. The movie is promoting what the USSR used to be, not what The USA was founded on, and the media is complicit in the process."

    You're an idiot. This film could be seen as a criticism of the stalinist-era USSR as well.

  • I find it sad that for all your ranting and raving about people with their blinders on, you've let yourself become so poisoned by propaganda that you're still paranoid of 'commie propaganda' long after the soviet union DIED.

    Newsflash: Progressivism is not communism.

    Newsflash: For years, various groups in the U.S. have attempted to use fearmongering propaganda by associating things with 'communism' anytime something is vaguely socialist.

    You talk about suckers but you've been had yourself.

  • squishydemon: You missed what I said. There is a huge difference between socialism and liberty.

    With the democrats promoting socialism, and the republicans promoting liberty, they are not the same. It isn't big business, it is the IMF and everyone being brainwashed that democracy is the way to go. No, you don't know what you are talking about, or you wouldn't say they are the same. The media promotes democracy so you get used to the redistribution, one world government.

  • I just realized that this film is not teaching principles of Liberty, but is in fact teaching socialism through Democracy! Power is not shared in a Republic, it is seperated and balanced and respect is not shared because opinions and freedom of thought and speech are protected to each individual. This proves that we have been brainwashed over several generations!!!! Restore the Republic!

  • I guess according to this movie we are definitely moving toward despotism.

  • writing comments on Youtube validates my existence

  • One People One Empire One Leader

  • to be honest, democrats, republicans, etc...it all means nothing, the way i see it, your either a governmentarian, or a humanitarian...

  • squishydemon : You don't get it. Liberal means more, excessive. Conservitave means minimal, or less. Democrats believe and promote bigger government and communistic redistribution of wealth. Republicans beieve in less government, liberty, and the foundational beliefs of our founding fathers. -Nebularnemesis- has it right, and you don't even realize that you have been brainwashed into thinking the democrats are for the little guy, and the republicans are for big business. WRONG!

  • dont twist my words when you didnt even read what i said, i said people are either governmentarian or humantarian, meaning, either for the government, or for the people, regardless of what the democrats or republicans belive in, they are "parties" but there are certain individuals within those parties that have contrary beliefs, so dont try & tell me i dont know what democrats & republicans stand for, if you dont have something useful to say, dont say it at all

  • squishydemon: ..." i said people are either governmentarian or humantarian,..."

    Yes, Republican or Democrat, respectivly. The democrats have helped sell the redistribution of wealth as predicted by our founding fathers. We have all been sold down the river and are now becoming slaves. I agree with what you say that it makes no difference in result, but not by charter or belief. They arn't even parties anymore.

  • exactly, much like here in australia, the two main parties being liberal & labor, labor seems to stick to its beliefs, but the liberals are in no way liberal at all, people trust advertising & words too easily instead of looking at the actions, its quite sad

  • There are only a few real GOP left in the republican party.

    My guess is you are a winger that has no idea on what has been going on in the "political Unions" otherwise called the major parties.The 2 parties Love Big government because that is job security.

  • Do you think this isn't happening here in the USA. It IS here. We have "I'm the decider"

    We have a manipulation of the Media, we have suppression groups working hard to keep the knowledge of this quiet.

  • freedomlost2007 : You have it wrong, it is the media that is manipulating you into believing that "democracy" and redistribution of wealth (communism) is better. This video is 90% promotion of socialism. If I work 10 time harder than you, why should we both have the same pay, property, and value? Liberty is not only the freedom to succeed, but the freedom to fail too. Remove that, and the incentive to do anything of value is removed. We are NOT a democracy. Get it yet?

  • Apparently, you do not understand this VERY old educational film.

    We are a Republic. I hope you are done being condescending to me.

    So you know we are despotic these days? Or did that fly over your head?

  • I understand this movie very well. You resent people that succeed if you believe this film and socialism, like the democrats, which, thru the media have convinced many people that a redistribution of wealth through a one world government is better. The GOP ideals are those of the founders, not of the democrats. The IMF own us now. Better get used to it. Both parties are puppets, agreed, but not willingly, by force. Economic force and blackmail. Learn to deal with it. We are hosed.

  • you are a sad sot aren't you... The GOP and the DNC are BOTH rotten to the core. You are so stupid you are using talking points of GW Bush who, doesn't know the meaning of hard work. I am not a Democrat yet you persist in being a dunce.

  • freedomlost2007: You don't get it. I am not saying YOU are a democrat, I am saying the Democrats are socialists, and the Repubs are not, by definition. The parties are based on that, but as we agree on, are rotten to the core because of monitary blackmail. We don't disagree that much, I was only objecting to what has happened by them, and absolute statements that you made, where you could have qualified it a bit more. Name calling is as childish as catagorical phrases.

  • vote ron paul!!

  • 'one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all'

    An older, kinder, America.

  • The liberals don't want any freedoms for the people. They only care about money and power. Al Gore and Bill Clinton are the worst. They lie, cheat, and are hippocrates!

  • who shit in your brain.

  • joojoojuice: " who shit in your brain."

    You don't get it do you? Your statement is proof that the democratically controlled media has convinced you that they are your friend, and that we must make the world safe for "democracy". Democrats want bigger government, more taxes, and less liberty through force. If you don't get this, then your brain is made of shit.

  • I would say that the golden days of democracy are over. Now we have bush the nepotist, tv control, the haves and have nots ratio is slipping although its not so obvious because the haves have fuck loads and the have not work 9-5 to make ends meat. time for some bloodshed! EAT THE RICH

  • Great find! Thank you for posting this!

  • OMG thanks so much for posting this!  These things are not taught in the schools anymore.

  • Politicians promise you freedom, more freedom is actualy a doorway that allows slavery,the freedom to enslave others without consequence.

    I dont promote politicians and their lies no one pays me to bullshit on youtube. Supporting any politician is a ticket to your own poverty slavery and misery and early death. American politicians are not hated in the world for no reason people. THEY ARE EVIL.

  • Did you notice they didn't say "under God" in the pledge of allegiance?

  • This film was made in 1946. It was 1954 when "under God" was inserted into our pledge. How many people know that? The "Greatest Generation" declared their allegiance to America their entire lives without ever saying "under God" and it didn't harm their morals or disfigure their patriotism one tiny little bit. Interesting, isn't it?

  • DEMOCRACY leads to MOBOCRACY and you cant make money in mobocracy, you pay mobs or get shot, even a lynch mob is a democracy. Freedom would give the right for any person to kill another

    without cosequence . Democracy would create a master & slave society. Honnestly Im open minded but I dont really see the benifit.

  • how dare you question a fact..lmao

  • The part when the vid says that "when people vote the way they're told" that happens everyday with the TV, papers, everywhere!! in a more subtle way. I wouldn't be amazed that many people would label the people who liked this videos as communist but whatever, amazing stuff, a must watch

  • Good video, scary it was made 60 years ago and you look at America now

  • if democracy refuses to change democracy will disapear

  • zinzob, you're a binbob. Feminism did work! It got them into the work force. It is the capitalistic system you are attempting to address. Good flicks to check out on youtube "War on Democracy" and David Korten's lecture "The Turning". Back to this flick. It is interesting how the Bush Admin is doing all of this now!

  • Because inflation is extremely moderated and kept very low in right wing rigimes, the roadmap of democracy is cultural anarchy, & economic growth leading to uncontroled inflation on housing food goods and transportation(leading the middle class into dehumanizing poverty misery homelessness and societal collaps ).

  • democrats are esoteric fascists and terrorists, real conservatives say that democrats are a bunch of dangerous new age quacks who need chill pills and to get out of politics.

  • There's no such thing as a Democrat fascist. Fascism is right-wing.

    Today bushco and the rest of the Neo-Nazi republicans are the problem.

    Fascism in America in the film again is/was the problem then. The Neo-Nazi republicans (heck some of them just pure Nazis) in the 40s and 50s wanted to control what you read and how you think. Truman warns of this.

  • The cause of poverty is inflation & the cause of inflation is democracy, Its extremely difficult to support a regime that wants you to become homeless and starve to death! .

  • ??? How do you link democracy and inflation ? And from what historical records do you guess despotism's economic flourishing and failure of democracies ?

  • Wrong

  • All those anti-semitism here is disturbing! You are all sick! Anti-semitism is a sickness and all goyim are infected!

  • Women should be allowed to choose their own life paths... but we might be in agreement that 1970's radical feminism failed because it did not necessarily seek to empower women to achieve a higher conciousness (and bring men along too), but to just give women the right to be workaholic a-holes just like the men

  • imagine the begining of greed in the human mind.now suppose this ideal of greed,in the sense of control and power,proliferated among people who realized that great power and control came from organizing and exploiting humans.they would also realize that maintaining this great control would require great anonymity of their society within countless other societies around the world.all of your symbols are masonic in origin.

  • From a scale of 1 to 10

    Respect: 4

    Power: 3

    Economic Distribution: 3.5

    Information: 1.5 (without internet)

    my average score = 3

  • USA should need more parties instead of partyes and 2 nazi partys

  • PRO THRID PARTY! Are you making you voice heard?

    "The vote of the ignorant doesn't make a difference in America."

  • So are you a time traveler FROM 1848, or are you 159 years old? Either way, I'm glad you've brought their philosophy to our present day. Women just don't bake enough things anymore.

  • This video is historically interesting, but intellectually and rhetorically LAME. No wonder the commies advanced so much for 40 years after it was made.

    We need FREEDOM! "Democracy" sucks.

  • the system is above the people now...you can not break the system that controls you...the gov't makes you feel the way you do...example-when you speed a little over the speed limit you have a feeling of guilt or rebelious...all the rules you follow are because the gov't wants you to...no escape except prison or follow along like sheep

  • This is great, but can you believe it, this drift towards despotism has actually occurred without a general public protest. Boiling frogs comes to mind. We need to organise, educate and regain our freedoms!

  • Amen. These women were promised a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and when they got there and opened the door, it was nothing but a disappointing bucket of bolts. Perhaps working like men was not that glorious, then they went after our money unfairly! Take from those who have, and give to women who want.

    Did you hear about that video of Hillary wanting to take the profits of the big oil and use them somewhere else, just like a communist?

  • Yup, a complete depopulation tool! Also feminism can be used to keep men weak! With women taking our jobs, how will men be able to get a footing to compete with the men at the top? Unless you become part of their group, we are delegated to full time Indian. I say there is not enough Chiefs and to many Indians!

  • Thanks man! Single women vote very liberal! Therefore they are helping to vote us into a socialist liberal state! Just like Russia, except we will be partly capitalist! Don't buy the hype, we are doomed!

    They only way to save us, is to not let women vote and only let the smart super successful class of men vote. The top 5%, which sadly doesn't include me!!!

  • Stop women from voting! Save us from the police state. Empower the common man!!!

  • Despotism we got on the respect scale. For a means to preserve freedom check out YouTube video: The Maturing of the Democratic Process, subtitled, Resolved: The American public is now just as capable of voting on the competing Democratic and Republican versions of Congressional bills, as voting on the competing candidates.

    The concept is to restore faith and trust in U.S. govt., to avert a fascist takeover when the administration's CCP credit card maxes out.

  • World peace is possible in this lifetime please watch my video to see how

  • so does the nation, and the world

  • If people vote and money rules it's not DEMOCRACY! It's PLUTOCRACY and OLIGARCHY! "Representative Democracy" is a swindle! The only half way

    "democratic" country in the world is Switzerland. The Swiss have a mix of "Direct Democracy" and "Representative Democracy".

  • nop, not even there, it's technocracy

  • If people vote and money rules it's not DEMOCRACY. It's PLUTOCRACY or/and OLIGARCHY! "Representative Democracy" is a swindle! The only half way

    "democratic" country in the world is Switzerland. The Swiss have a mix of "Direct Democracy" and

    "Representative "Democracy".

  • Democracy is inherantly unfair if the "demo" do not also take the best interest of minority groups into account. If the majority abuse their power, the minority group will feel that although they have a vote, they have no say - leading to frustration with limited ways to vent it.

  • If people vote and money rules it's not DEMOCRACY! It's PLUTOCRACY and OLIGARCHY! "Representative Democracy" is a swindle! The only half way

    "democratic" country in the world is Switzerland. The Swiss have a mix of "Direct Democracy" and "Representative Democracy".

  • I think it's important to remember that democracy was always fought for by the people. No kind king or government handed democracy out like soup at a kitchen.

    And people need to remember that the way to maintain democracy is though you individual actions.