Reply #47: I disagree. [View All]

[Nadienne]

You wrote, "Equality is a rare bedfellow to democracy." That depends on your definition of democracy. If you consider the United States to be a democracy, then your statement is true.

But the United States isn't really a democracy. It's a republic.

A democracy is a political state where every citizen has an equal say in how they are to be governed. Equality and democracy go hand in hand.

Our founding fathers had the attitude that Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what they are going to have for supper. The "three wolves" are common, capital-less people, and the "sheep" is the capital-owning people whose capital would be devoured if everyone had an equal say in government.

And so we are a republic with an electoral college and enough of a semblance to democracy to keep us "wolves" at bay.