11-06-2016, 01:58 PM
(11-04-2016, 04:45 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yes, I heard of a type of government where it worked like that. It was called a Monarchy. As I recall, the US didn't much enjoy it. But we have a Constitution now, you might say. Well then that would still be a Constitutional Monarchy.
Or when it's a web of powerful people trading favors and getting each other into power, it's called an Oligarchy.
Neither are what Democracy is supposed to be. You get a third Bush, then soon enough you'll get a fourth Bush and a fifth. You get a second Clinton, and then once she gets old enough, maybe Chelsea runs for President, using her mother and father's wealth, contacts, and favors they developed from both being President to get into power.
It's a situation just best avoided entirely.
A Democracy involves people electing who they want to govern without the government telling them that some people can not get elected because of their last name.
You really need to go back to school if you think electing the son of a former President is the same as a "monarchy".
