Democracy does not discriminate
Many people still believe that democracy is the only form of politics that is not exclusionary but inclusive. However, this doesn’t seem right. This myth is rooted in the popular American’s descriptions that America is a “nation of immigrants and a melting pot.” The former US president, Barack Obama, also invalidated Donald Trump’s immigration proposal by using the phrase “that is not who we are as Americans.”
However, democracies are pluralistic and even divisive when you consider the following scenarios. First, Athens’ women, slaves, and foreigners could not become citizens. Second, slavery was a major part of America until the end of the Civil war. Third, the 1798 Alien and Seditions Acts discriminated against and distinguished who could become citizens and referred to American Indian nations as foreign countries.
Those are not the only points that explain how discriminatory democracy is. In Italy, Matteo Salvini vowed to expel Roma’s minority with no Italian citizens and stereotype them as lawless people. Another biased contribution of democracy is former White House adviser Stephen Bannon, asserting that immigration is the beating heart of the American living standards problems.
6 thoughts on “6 Political Myths People Still Believe”
If the illegal immigrant has a record of paying taxes then they deserve the stimulus.
First off – THE UNITED STATES IS * NOT * A DEMOCRACY.
>>>> IT IS A REPUBLIC.
Another un-educated ,left leaning
tool of anti-American bias.
Do some REAL research and find the reason why the Founders created the electoral college.
It was to insure that under represented states got an EQUAL vote; the people who feed this country, the farmers and ranchers who don’t live in the festering cities
that breed corruption.
I guarantee the person who wrote this article is neither.
Our founding fathers thought of Democracy as the worst form of government, largely because they read the classics, often in their original Greek or Latin. That is why they created a Republic, and why we avoided the Reign of Terror that they had in “democratic” revolutionary France.
The United States has never been a democracy. A pure democracy cannot function on a large population and has no protection for individual rights. It is an ancient idea. The United States idea is limited government where rights are natural and begin with the individual.
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