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Is America a democracy?

Americans hire other people to do their “democracy” for them.

American Citizens blanch at the idea of actual democracy because they don’t really want responsibility for running their own country or anything else for that matter. That’s why they hire people to do it for them. Americans blame-shift so that no one is ever responsible, especially not themselves.

“There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.”

- William Hazlitt

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