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That's nothing new. The party always selects the candidates and the DNC (and same for RNC) controls who gets nominated. Yes, we get to vote on the candidates, but our choices are always limited to the one or two nominees selected by the party which is controlled by the Central Committee. Everything is controlled by the party and the part…
That's nothing new. The party always selects the candidates and the DNC (and same for RNC) controls who gets nominated. Yes, we get to vote on the candidates, but our choices are always limited to the one or two nominees selected by the party which is controlled by the Central Committee. Everything is controlled by the party and the party is controlled by its patrons ( big donors). That's the nature of party politics.
Democracy is a fairy tale. There has never been a true democracy in the world's history. The closest thing to a democracy in the U.S. is in those states that have the rights to referendum, initiative and recall where the voters have a direct say in the enactment or repeal of laws and can remove elected officials. (Those states are few in this country.)
Yes, but please give me the illusion that my vote matters. :-)
Your vote does matter. You get to choose between the lesser of two evils - and that's important. But that doesn't make it a democracy.
What You really have is having to deal with the Evil of two Lessers.
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” ~ attributed [probably wrongly] to Benjamin Franklin
Your analogy has merit, but does not describe democracy. Democracy is simply an abstract concept that has little or no basis in reality.
Don't try to compare to something that is real, because there is nothing realistic about it.
Good point. But does the analogy describe "democracy" as is it is in reality?
And "democracy" is indeed an abstract concept. But what about a "republic"? Is that equally abstract with no reality? Or a "dictatorship of the Proletariat"?
What we're looking for here is not how political philosophers define and use those terms. Rather, how those terms manifest in the real world with real people running real governments that call themselves a democracy, a republic, or a dictatorship.
You are absolutely correct. But to add insult to injury, they are tax exempt corporations under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code.
And so are PACs.