Democracy - in most cases you are presented with just two options, so, like religion, there is no scope for reason and the majority of the population is split into three groups those for option 1, those for option 2 and those who can't see any reason for either. It's a farce.

Democracy simply means that an irrational vote carries the same weight as the rational one. That's why we have a lot of irrational laws and some rational ones which are ignored by our irrationally elected irrational leaders.

When I have a problem, I want an expert. I don't pick people at random and utilize the most common opinion and neither should our country.

"Capitalism without socialism is fascism. Socialism without capitalism is communism”
Some people think that in order to have a Fascist society, you have to have concentration camps. Camps are indicative of a fully functioning fascist system, fascism realized. What we are seeing now is fascism in its infancy, but growing quickly. This is not name calling, it is history repeating itself.

We've broken down the barrier between church and state more and more over the last few decades. Also, if you look at the recent election, a lot of people don't really want freedom and democracy. Going further than that, we haven't evolved out of the need to want to dominate, and hold territory over others. It's still in our nature to try to take over, and subjugate those who we deem weaker than ourselves. Not that all of us think that way, but many people just can't tolerate different views, races, religions or freedom from them, and they simply want everyone to fit in to their narrow view of the world. In reality, it's totally Darwinian, and surprising that 'democracy' has lasted this long.

And if you think organized religion doesn't have a heavy hand in that, you're fooling yourself.

America is now waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of our people would kill the another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.

We are splitting in half. We were a country more in the center at one time but the right keeps moving further and further right and the left keeps moving further and further left. I'm one of those hanging on the far left edge because I don't want the scale to tip so far right that we become unfeeling egomaniacal, xenophobic, it's all about me and screw the world and the environment.

Of the people, by the people, for the people. since when??? It sure doesn't seem like that is the current administrations aim though they claim it is. The US has the arrogance and audacity to expect other countries to accept the same form of government when it's own government doesn't seem to be working very well.

Well, in the words of Michelle Bachman, there's a 2nd amendment remedy for that.