Is the U.S. a dictatorship?

[Monty]

You left out something, magellan01 (my addition is bolded).

@magellan01

•Use language that is familiar to your audience without making up a definition known only to you. This is particularly important when you’re trying to get people to look at things in a new way without bothering to tell them what that new way is.

[magellan01]

@Monty

You left out something, magellan01 (my addition is bolded).

Good addition. I think the first one is particularly appropriate. The second, probably just a result of all the others.

[rwjefferson]

Please allow my humble apology to those that I have offended. My passion for liberty runs much too deep and strong for my own good. I do not willingly accept tyranny in any form; however slight; even at cost.

Is the U.S. a dictatorship? (narrow definition) No. Clearly it is not and never has been.

Was the U.S. a dictatorship of law? (my definition) On behalf of Slaves and Native Americans, I answer yes.

Is the U.S. (still) a dictatorship of law? Your answer will depend on the definitions you choose.

I do not see that a law that prohibits (as opposed to regulates) peaceful quest can be considered either liberty or justice. I only see those laws creating strife and tyranny and dictatorship.

The question remains, how much tyranny are We willing to accept?
Peace
Only through Liberty
rwjefferson

[Bryan_Ekers]

@rwjefferson

My passion for liberty runs much too deep and strong for my own good.

Well, that’s a problem if you want to present your argument to people accustomed to reasoned debate. Rhetoric and bombast and generalities might work to get a sympathetic crowd cheering for you, but they won’t work on the people on this message board.

[Ravenman]

@rwjefferson

The question remains, how much tyranny are We willing to accept?

I say that we should accept no more than a 2.1 magnitude of tyranny, and not a ten-thousandth of a point more. How can anyone disagree with that?

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Ravenman

I say that we should accept no more than a 2.1 magnitude of tyranny, and not a ten-thousandth of a point more. How can anyone disagree with that?

You’ve overlooked the modifiers of the autocracy matrix. Overlooked!!