They're all a bunch of bloody sheep I tell ya. This is a very telling graphic about the nature of American politics, opinion polls and the media.

Was it ever really in doubt?

Democracy is just one step above Hitler. Surprising that for 8,000 years of human civilization Democracy is the best we have to show?

Democracy is the like Ford Model T of governments... at least we don't have to hand-crank the motor every morning anymore! It's like a 2 on the scale of 1-10 and surprisingly a 2 is the best we've been able to do!

Isn't the quote:"Opinions are like ***holes, everybody has go one!" very appropriate. Worst of it is, that everybody feels he/ she needs to be heard as well.
Get rid of this vanity and we have an opening for another political system.

People normally think that war is fine as long as it does impinge on them or their way of life.

An extremely astute observation LeEnfield.

Excuse my stupidity but what exactly is being measured in this table. The war on terror? or the presidents approval rateing or what?

Presidential Approval Rating

Why does everyone keep referring to the American Government as a democracy? As far as I can remember, we have been a republic who elects representatives to represent us in DC. If anything has changed since 1776, please advise me.

http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Republic.html

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They made a very marked distinction between a republic and democracy ... and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had created a republic.

U.S. Army Training Manual TM2000-05, 1928

Democracy, n. "A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."

ha ha ha awsome call Missiler, I'm going to use that from now on.

Why does everyone keep referring to the American Government as a democracy? As far as I can remember, we have been a republic who elects representatives to represent us in DC. If anything has changed since 1776, please advise me.

No wonder that elections in the US are such a spectacle. I wonder what it looks like when a Republic drops by to cast a vote.... Overhere we have actual people waiting in line to cast their vote on who they want as a representative.... but that must be a democracy?