Democracy vs. Republic and a whole lot else

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http://broadcasting.projectbreakout.com/media_page/entry_id/197

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News & Politics

Tags:

• false
• dichotomy
• capitalism
• socialism
• fascism
• communism
• electoral
• college

[mommaskyla]

Can I just say thank you, thank you? I home school my kiddos and when a modern day witch hunt broke out this year in our school district over the which term should be taught and whose heads needed to be removed on the school board, my kids and I asked, "Well, which is it really?" Your video is such an awesome and accessible way to teach this notion and my husband stood here nodding the whole time saying, "This guy knows what he's talking about!" I'm sharing this video with great praise!

[JoeFelice]

@mommaskyla I'm so glad to have provided you a with valuable experience.

[CluppHead]

Republic and democracy are both scary terms to me. Our founding fathers made a republic because they didn't believe that the common man had the knowledge to vote on legislation directly. But now, we have politicians that will lie to the people to get a position. Collect money from private investors in campaigns, which are huge companies with their own agendas. Who in turn, turn around and catch a tax break from it. Those companies own news networks. Am I totally wrong about this?

[JoeFelice]

Are you wrong? Not technically, but you are cynical. You've described much of what's wrong with the system, but not the other forces which mitigate these wrongs and put us, I believe, in a mode of frustratingly slow generational progress.

[PktMma]

It's all good and well but I suspect the fascists are eating up the american pie and soon there won't be any left.

[Ryukikon]

I agree with this video on the overall concept it tries to reach but I disagree with it on everything else. THere is Dichotomy and people should be aware of it thus, increasing education and rational thinking is important. Almost everything has multifaceted elements the thing is were ascribe it to being what it is because it has more of that factor or element than the others inside of it. I mean this is common sense. Think about things in water, or Geometric shapes. A triangle is in a square

[StephenWebb1980]

Very Good. Extraordinarily succinct man. I usually stop at 'Constitutional Democracy', or Democratic Republic when trying to explain it to people...you did an amazing job, keep up the good work.

[HoGraz]

Man you're good. You should make your own contra-Beck show on MSNBC. Word.

[clarke9mm]

9/11 was justification for war. Fascism? Not quite...

[Fuctmentality]

@YESobamaCANfuckupUSA If you don't believe we are a democracy, don''t vote. as we are a representative democracy (according to James "Father of the constitution" Madison). You're definition of democracy is called pure democracy, we have a constitutional representative democracy. If we were a nondemocratic republic our representatives would not be chosen by election.

FYI in our republic, less that .001% of the population can take your rights away.

[kehvan]

I was following you up until you're "war" bullshit. It was and still is, bullshit. For any article you show me where you think it was cheer leading people to war, I can show you another critical of the rush to war.

That said, a lot your argument for 'Constitutional Democratic Republic, Capitalist-Socialism' rests on how it is now, and not what was intended. That's really the crux of the argument and concerns from the people you're chastising.

[billfrd827]

You couldn't be more wrong. The founders of this nation were strongly against the idea of Democracy. The United States of America was founded as a Republic and yes there is a huge difference. Since then, mostly in the last 40 years, we have we have transformed into more of a Democracy. Our representatives go along with the constitution only if it suits their needs. The majority of the bills that go through congress are unconstitutional. This is why our country is failing.