do most americans care that they live in a democracy?

[RepublicanElephant]

[karlrschneider]

1. Didn't you leave out a couple words...like "no longer"?

??

[question everything]

15. This would be true if you could no longer say so

could no longer belong to DU - in the open, would not be put in jail for saying so.

This is what really irks me, and thank you for providing the opportunity to repeat this:

So many easily use the term "fascist" or a "police country" not knowing the first thing about what it means to live under such regimes. And here is a hint: no DU and other places to express one's opinions about the government, to say practically anything except, of course, to threaten the lives of elected officials - as hopefully Bill Orally found out the hard way, according to Olbermann.

[That Is Quite Enough]

2. I truly believe that most Americans do not care that they live in a Democracy...

...The only thing they care about is whether or not they have their fast food and TV.

[AX10]

3. So long as they don't have to make any personal sacrifices.

[bdamomma]

12. maybe that will be the only way when it gets personal

how can any one of us throw away our rights and privileges, this is disgusting, we were the first to adopt democracy and now we are not willing to save it, my comment excludes DU'ers.

[MADem]

4. Most Americans don't give a shit about anything that is beyond their own sphere

However, 'most Americans' don't pay attention and don't move events. They make up their minds at the last minute and follow along smartly.

If the issues of Democracy intruded into their sphere, suddenly, direly, they might care. In fact, they probably would care.

[Myrina]

5. ... I really don't think most people understand what it means ...

... anymore. To the media-bombarded sheeple, it's the "right to shop at the Wal Mart of your choice", and to extend your credit until you lose everything, and to be lazy gluttons.

I don't think many people really have read, understood or internalized the Federalist Papers, anything from Common Sense, or what this country's democracy is really supposed to be about.

[Puregonzo1188]

6. I can't really decide. I mean I doubt if someone came out and openly

said, "Let's get rid of this whole democracy thing and try something else" most Americans would support. However, most Americans don't seem to care very much about participating in their democracy or the current assaults on it. So I'm not really sure.

[Double T]

7. Most Americans don't care about anything except life within their own little bubble.

This is the single greatest reason bushco has been able to get away with ALL of their criminal acts.

[bdamomma]

13. that is total ignorance or maybe willful ignorance.

[Wcross]

8. I thought we were a constitutional republic?

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states, one federal district, and fourteen territories.

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

[Rosemary2205]

22. Yep

This thread is more proof many adults are not "Smarter than a 5th Grader". :)

[RepublicanElephant]

9. i asked this question because...

...i think dubya is testing the american people.

few friends and family are following the current constitutional crisis, or even politics in general. They just want to be left alone to live their simple lives, never noticing their constitutional democracy is being slowly strangled to death.

this is the beginning of our own nazi germany.

and few of us even understand what that means.

[Wcross]

14. I believe that very few care much about politics/government.

As long as the new season of American idol comes on people are content. I doubt most people I work with could pass the citizenship test given to new citizens. They could probably name the finalists on the last three American idol shows though. The names of our senators? Probably not.

[xchrom]

10. they'd have to know what it is first.

[Individualist]

18. Exactly!

As long as their teevees tell them they're living in a democracy, the willfully ignorant will remain content.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. we don't and they don't care that we don't. nt.

[shenmue]

16. Most people don't give a shit about much other than themselves.

Take away their crappy TV and they might kill you.

Other than that, it's perfectly all right with the average person if everybody else is getting screwed over.

[treestar]

17. It is sometimes surprising but you can find one who acts

rather shocked that we don't live in a dictatorship, and actually complains that we don't have the trappings of a police state.

There are a few out there who really believe that when the police make the arrest, that should be it, and they're resentful that the accused gets to drag it on with the trial and all that BS.

They really believe that everything that happens is in one central database (they call it the "permanent record.") They believe that the economy is completely static and that the job they want must materialize at the time they want it - that the government runs the economy is a Soviet Style fashion and that it always provides one job for every American. They honestly believe they cannot lose their current job.

[RedCappedBandit]

19. Absolutely not.

They care about their individual "freedoms" for the most part, but I have a hard time believing most Americans care at all about anybody else.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Do most Americans care that they live in an oligarchy?

ol·i·gar·chy audio (l-gärk, l-) KEY

NOUN:
pl. ol·i·gar·chies

1.
1. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
2. Those making up such a government.
2. A state governed by a few persons.

[That Is Quite Enough]

26. Actually, I think America's closer to a Plutocracy. Or in the case of Bushco, a Kakistocracy.

Plutocracy = Rule by the wealthy.
Kakistocracy = Rule by the most unprincipled.

[mmonk]

21. They don't realize they no longer live in the type of country

they grew up in. If they had a clue, yes they would care.

[Rosemary2205]

23. Another "Americans suck" thread.

Well we need on at least once a day around here.

[mudesi]

24. Is America a democracy anymore?(nm)

[Greyhound]

25. TV & alcohol, you forgot alcohol.

As long as they can turn what's left of their minds off, they couldn't care less.

[Vidar]

27. What democracy? Where have you been for the last six years?