Is America a democracy?

Currently, approximately 40 percent of the working population pays no federal income taxes. The Democrat presidential and congressional tax proposals are specifically designed to make that 40 percent higher.

Once 51 percent get to live off the other 49 percent, we have a democracy. To maintain power, politicians will deliver meager programs that foster government dependence and accentuate class envy -- all the while being very careful to not let the 51 percent dependent population decline. Majority (mob, if you will) rule -- or more politely described: a democracy.

Was our nation founded as a democracy?

Our founders explicitly feared and openly ridiculed the concept of a democracy and, instead, founded our country as a constitutional republic: a nation with a purposefully weak federal government limited by the rule of law -- the Constitution.

The unraveling of the republic began with the passage of the 16th Amendment (income tax) and 17th Amendment (loss of individual state representation in the Congress) in 1913. A great proponent of both amendments, and one of the first to extensively describe our nation as a democracy, was Woodrow Wilson.

The unraveling accelerated under FDR as constitutional intent (see the Federalist and Anti-Federalist's papers) was repeatedly ignored in favor of a living Constitution. And, more recently, the actual text of the Constitution has been unconstitutionally redefined by Supreme Court jurists who openly state their desire for their decisions to be fair. We have inexorably devolved into a democracy and the word is carelessly sprinkled in speeches by all politicians.

Without the rule of law limiting the role of the federal government as defined by the Constitution, politicians (abetted by the liberal supreme beings of the court) buy votes in the form of pork spending and entitlements in order to gain and maintain power. They're not giving you anything; they are buying your votes at the expense of someone else.

Dale Schmacht, Evans