Democracy and Suicide


	Democracy and Suicide

ColoradoRight

4-15-2009 3:58 PM

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democracy, republic, constitution, power

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4-15-2009 8:52 PM

willhelm

One of the surest signs of the ignorance of those on the Left is the insistence that the USA is a democracy. When it is not ignorance, it is out of need to believe it is so.

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