Depends on HOW BIG the goverrnment is and what restrictions are placed on the government when it is setup...
If a Democracy is setup wrong it will quickly slide into a totalitarianism regime.
If it is setup as a method of selecting leaders in a Republic it will take longer to slide...
Where you have a one-party setup, whether de jure or de facto, then no republic can stand. The Uniparty of the Democrats and the GOP-e mimics one-party states precisely, as does the European Union with its pretense of multi-party parliamentary “democracy”—but the EU never pretended to have separation of powers, though.
Democracies don’t work!!!
Only a Constitutional Republic works!
we were suppose to be a republic (nation of laws) not a democracy...................................
The Yale.edu open courseware includes a semester course by Kagen studying Ancient Greek Civilization. The Athenians instituted a real living breathing democracy. What were its limits?
At one time, they would have a yearly vote to expel someone under penalty of death for one year.
Our Founders knew this, which is why they loathed democracies.
Our founders gave us a representative republic whose power was limited by a constitution. One by one, the limits have been stripped away. The founders were rabidly against “factions (best translated as “special interests”, the largest of which are the current political parties)”. I agree with the Judge that our government is the captive of the “big government party”, with Democrat and Republican wings monopolizing the ballots.
One way to break this monopoly is to institute the “none of the above” rule — in any election, there must be a “none of the above” choice; if it wins a plurality, another election must be held, and the candidates on that ballot are not allowed on the next.
“If a Democracy is setup wrong it will quickly slide into a totalitarianism regime.”
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There IS NO right way to setup a democracy, that is why the word democracy does not appear in the constitution or the declaration of independence and was never generally used to refer to this country until WWI was called the “war to make the world safe for democracy”. The founders warned against democracy because it ALWAYS degenerates into totalitarianism, the whole idea of democracy is wrong and this is NOT a matter of semantics, a “representative democracy” is NOT the same as a constitutional republic which is the form of government guaranteed by the constitution. We need to stop referring to democracy as if it were something to be desired, it most certainly IS NOT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI