Is the USA a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or is the USA of the government, by the government and for the government?

[Adaeva]

[NotTacocaT6969]

The easiest way to manipulate people is to create a villain, pretend to defeat that villain and tell those people that you are the only one who is capable of defeating that villain.


This creates a false sense of trust.


Now that you have them eating out of the palm of your hand, you can feed them lies.

[abc3643]

Q:

"Is the USA a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?"

A:

Yes, it is. When you get older, you will fully understand this. Unfortunately, the "by the people part" is paid for by common folks, but the "for the people part" is mostly for the wealthy... and White.

[Anonymous]

It's not a democracy, its an oligarchy just like Russia. The only difference is that American Oligarchs are smarter letting us have the illusion of democracy. Politicians do what they are told. There is no left vs right.

[WindAtMyBack]

For the government. But the people allowed it, either through ignorance, apathy, or they actually wanted a government like that.

This is not about democracy vs aristocracy. That's something completely different.

The weird thing about democracy is that it can allow for anything. A democracy can even do away with democracy through democratic process.

[jshm2]

Doesn't matter, kiddo.

It's a myth the USA is a "democracy". It's actually a weak constitutional republic, where the rich and lobbyists have more power than the people. The people just get to choose the form of their destroyer - they have no other say or input.

[monorprise]

In practice a goverment which consist of far too many agencies to know what all of them are doing much less hold them accountable by the people and has little to no reason to really be for the people.
In practice they can mostly do what they want for themselfs, their large degree of control over who joins their ranks also allows them to create among themselfs a kind of ruling class.

[SpokenTruth]

To begin with The US is not a democracy, it's a republic. That said it's no longer by the people clearly.

[Adaeva]

Even if that was relevant, how often to you hear the USA referred to as a democracy vs republic by politicians and the media?

[SpokenTruth]

Have you heard the phrase if you repeat something over and over it's accepted as truth?

[SpokenTruth]

In other words for those who never knew the truth in the first place they will believe it.

[Adaeva]

In effect I have but usually in the following words: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.”

[SpokenTruth]

Now you're getting it.

[SpokenTruth]

It's not the truth though it's called brainwashing.

[OddBeMe]

Your question is different from your picture.

Question: yes, barely. We keep allowing big money donors more freedoms to legally bribe candidates. But I still think the value of voting is still stronger. If only more than 48% of Americans did it.

Pic: aristocracy I’ll assume you mean the big money donors. And in that way, illogically, a corporation has more rights than people do. So no.

[exitseven]

It is the people that are working for the government. The United States seems more like a big social experiment than a country.

[DWornock]

The USA is a government of the rich and powerful, by the rich and powerful, and for the rich a powerful.

[KostasKouvalis]

This Guru or terrorist or whoever he is, summed it up perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/QFgcqB8-AxE

[BarryLiverstone]

USA is a country. We elect people as representatives to govern.

[QuietRunner]

it is a Republic that has some politicians feeling they are aristocrats