Is our democracy dying?

[gizmo1979]

Repugs keep slamming crap down our throats,and the people take it with a smile and a atta boy!!When will we stand up and be heard?

[Triana]

1. I'm afraid it's been dead a while...

RIP

[Gman]

2. It stinks with rot

at this point.

[htuttle]

3. It's dead, Jim

At least on the national level. Still some to be found in some state governments (but it's under seige), and many local governments.

[LiberalVoice]

4. There is only one option left to take....

An I'm afraid that may be coming soon. Resistance.

[Swamp Rat]

5. We already had a funeral and wake for democracy in New Orleans

[Goathead]

6. Don't poke it with a stick

You may puncture it's bloated, rotting corpes releasing a vile, noxious gas.

[sally343434]

7. How do we know?

Domestic media is now effectively "State Media" like they used to deride in the old Soviet Union. How do we know anything? The news is fake propaganda, coverage of anything anti-bush is forbidden. We are fed "polls" devised by partisan organizations and commissioned by State Media to legitimize the propaganda. At least some of us can look offshore for real news. But everyone else just goes along in a fantasy world.

[Ironpost]

8. an ole vietnam vet here

We just have our fight cut out for us.

[tabasco]

11. History never fails.

People fail to realize what they have until they lose it. We have surrendered our freedom to war profiteering corporations and the rich and we will undoubtedly have to fight to get it back. We live in a police state now.

How disappointed I am with my fellow Americans.

Thanks for your service!

[Stirk]

9. Our republic is practically dead already. But here's what I believe:

The decline of US power will be the best thing that's ever happened to the average American citizen. Right now we're living in an empire, and empire is bad for everyone but the very few living at the very top of the social scale.

Imperial systems run on oppression: the empire against it's colonies, and the rich against the poor inside the empire itself.

I think the people of this country will be liberated by the collapse of US power. Britain once had a great empire, and now it's gone. But you know, the average Brit seems better off for it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. the wake was on Nov. 7, 1999 was burial on Dec. 12, 2000...

[orpupilofnature57]

12. Not quite yet, liberalism will rise again when we see what the..

lack of it has done to idea of Democracy and freedom in general,at the hands of the thing Ben and Tommy warned us about "corporate interest". Do you think Hamilton worried about Democracy?

[UdoKier]

13. dead as a doornail.

It was in intensive care since about 1994, flatlined in 2000.

[ladjf]

14. Our Democracy isn't dead but, rather, a prisioner.