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Obama Demeans His Own Supporters

Monday, September 20, 2010


Those people represent constituents who are more politically moderate, probably bordering on conservative. I don't like their views any more than you do, but they deserve to be represented by the person they put into office. That's democracy. It's not black or white. This country is centrist, and that's how we're being governed.
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And when you say, "That's democracy", no, that's politics.  

But, by the way, the US is what's known as a 'liberal democracy'.  
[A democracy in which majoritarian decisions (from direct or representative processes) prevail in many policy areas, subject to the restriction that those decisions may not breach individuals' liberties and rights, as spelled out in a constitution. Liberal democracy is based on the philosophy of classical liberalism, melded with the idea of popular sovereignty.]

To confuse you further, democracy is "black and white", 50 percent + 1, but we're not a pure democracy.  We're bits of many things -- A liberal democracy, a direct democracy, a democratic republic, a party government, etc.  
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