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Originally Posted by Winetalk.com
your right,
USA is Republic.
My bad and nevetheless I stand corrected,
this Republic which allows you pound the President day after day is still much better than 99% of this world.
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It's interesting to have Russian eyes view this nation. Serge, I'm most certain that you spend a lot of time muttering "you people have absolutely *no* clue, do you?"
My Russian doctor *loves* talking politics with my husband and I whenever we go in. He has an excitement about it that I lost a long time ago. I think you just made me understand him a bit better, Serge, and for that I thank you.
XxXotic...*deeply sad sigh* Where were you when my kids were in high school? I would have loved to have you sit in the back of the class and observe what was being taught. (I think it was when the teacher played "Spartacus" as a "history lesson" that I finally threw up my hands.) My kids learned all of this at the kitchen table during Daddy's rants.
OK, I got sidetracked.
That was a wonderful capsule definition of our governmental system. Thank you. You get an A+ and go to the head of the class.
Frequently, the kibbutz system in Israel is held up as an example of a "true" democracy that functions well. My sister and brother-in-law went to Israel on their honeymoon and visited some of his relatives in kibbutzes. I believe she said "democracy sucks" or something along those lines. My sister is definitely *not* the kibbutz type.