There really are no true democracies. The U.S. is a republic. In a true democracy, every citizen would have to vote on every law. A true democracy is wonderful in theory, but it can't really be done. That's why we (in the U.S.) vote for people to vote on the laws for us, making it a republic. If there were a country small enough to have a true democracy, I don't think it would fail. But a republic means less people voting on laws, which significantly increases the chances of corruption.
Actually, a true democracy could work, but only for a small place like a town, not for a big country.
That's kinda what I meant by "If there were a country small enough to have a true democracy, I don't think it would fail."
He was pro-big government and did not believe that the states had the right to do whatever they wanted, so in that sense the conservatives/libertarians wouldn't like him. At the same time, he did that little relocation thing you might have heard of called the "Trail of Tears," so the liberals hate him.
Yeah, when I read about his presidency, I wondered why the brick he is on our money.
I don't. Everything "good" about his presidency (he was a good man aside from that) was made up in 1863 to further his war effort.
In fact, during the election debates, he said that the black man and the white man were not meant to live together and that all black people should be sent back to Africa.
Lincoln was, though, an abolitionist. He did fight, but he fought for what's right. And that's what made him good.
He wasn't an abolitionist until he had to make an excuse to keep fighting the South. And the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually do anything.
There really are no true democracies. The U.S. is a republic. In a true democracy, every citizen would have to vote on every law. A true democracy is wonderful in theory, but it can't really be done. That's why we (in the U.S.) vote for people to vote on the laws for us, making it a republic. If there were a country small enough to have a true democracy, I don't think it would fail. But a republic means less people voting on laws, which significantly increases the chances of corruption.
I completely agree. Respresentational Democracy does not work in my opinion; I much prefer the idea of Direct Democracy. I live in the hope that one day, some one will work out a way to implement Direct Democracy across the globe.
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Lincoln was, though, an abolitionist. He did fight, but he fought for what's right. And that's what made him good.
He wasn't an abolitionist until he had to make an excuse to keep fighting the South. And the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually do anything.
From my understanding, what the Emancipation Proclamation did was it freed all of the slaves in the Confederate States, but not in the states that had slavery but didn't secede.
He wasn't an abolitionist until he had to make an excuse to keep fighting the South. And the Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually do anything.
From my understanding, what the Emancipation Proclamation did was it freed all of the slaves in the Confederate States, but not in the states that had slavery but didn't secede.
Yeah, but in the Confederate States he didn't have the power to free them, it's not like the South was listening to him at the time.
From my understanding, what the Emancipation Proclamation did was it freed all of the slaves in the Confederate States, but not in the states that had slavery but didn't secede.
Yeah, but in the Confederate States he didn't have the power to free them, it's not like the South was listening to him at the time.
True, so it didn't really "do" anything at the time, but it was him saying that once the South re-joined with the North, then slavery would be illegal.
Well America always wanted in anyway but that's my opinion, America cut their Oil production so they knew they would have to conquer to get Oil for their army and other projects, Pearl harbor had just recently have the entire Pacific fleet move their, Pearl harbor was the Pacific fleet and Japan would have to take it out to get the oil they needed, plus what about the Flying Tigers in China fighting Japanese?
So you're saying America fought Japan over oil? If that's the case, how come we're getting our oil from OPEC and not our colonies in east Asia?
The Flying Tigers as a unit didn't exist until after the war started for us, so it's physically impossible for them to have fought Japan before we entered the war.
I didn't say it was over oil, Pearl Harbor was partly oil. I apologize, I had my facts wrong about the flying tigers.
Does anyone here know how to follow denial with clear, concise, objective facts and reasoning to prove their claims, or am I the only one here who knows how to use high school logic and Wikipedia to prove that what I say is correct?
I really don't want to get in some argument with you.
I'm not saying the Soviets are good, but America isn't any better, they do the same thing, all powers do. Oh and America Wasn't being aggressive in afghanistan, How many coups and assassinations? Just because they were more organized doesn't excuse them.
America is aggressive, they are installing satellites in Poland trying to take the South China sea, THESE ARE ON RUSSIA AND CHINA"S BORDERS< I never said there were bombs in mexico, I asked would it be exceptable for russia to move bombs into Mexico, would that be alright, everyone would say he is aggresive, rightly so! but its somehow different with Poland? Also if you looked into it Crimea overwhelmingly wants to be with Russia, its been part of their country for centuries before, only in the 90's did it get taken away, its like Canada taking Virginia from us. As for Trump, he's a bafoon and already lied about that he is going to stay plus its not like he has any power right now.
1. The reason the US was in Afghanistan was because the USSR was in Afghanistan. The KGB are the ones that led all the shady assassinations and coups. And if you consider removing the Taliban from power a bad act (The only government overthrowing the US sponsored or participated in, as far as I know), then I'm honestly considering reporting you to the FBI.
2. Russia never moved bombs to Mexico but it did move missiles to Cuba. I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt and say you just forgot about that bit of history.
3. Even if 100% of the Crimean population wanted to be part of Russia, that doesn't give Russia to invade land rightfully owned and maintained by the sovereign nation of Ukraine. If they want to be Russian citizens that bad, then they would logically just move to Russia, not have Russia move to them. Clearly it's all about asserting how cool Russia is. It has nothing to do with "Reuniting the Aryan people Russian people."
4. Again, Virginia is part of the US and Canada is not. It would, again, have no right to take it.
5. Trump's already planning for the 2020 election (If that's what you mean by "stay"). Also, what do you mean he doesn't have any power? The second he was inaugurated he got all the presidential power, and he's signed an insane amount of executive orders as well. Learn about the president before insulting him without proof, please and thank you.
I see you watch mainline media that don't tell the true story, I know About Cuba and they moved the bombs out and in exchange the Us moved their bombs in Turkey near Russia, Trump is already in trouble with the Intelligence bureaus, He can only do so much and he's been shunned by Government departments, his cabinet is falling to pieces, he won't get much done,
*mind blown* 
