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If America is a Republic (not a democracy, as some gloriously state)...?

...with the highest Prison Population per capita in the Western Hemisphere, is it not demonstrably poorly placed to be spreading "Freedom and Democracy" across the globe?

Or do they have spherical bread loaves where they come from?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    the government just uses that term loosely to make us think we have a say, when it comes down to it, it all up to the government...darn smokescreen!

  • 1 decade ago

    dude, have you put this question in the wrong category?

    i think you did. and america is not a republic if it was, the name should be Republic of the United States of America,

    which is stupidly long and wrong grammared, an elementary pupil i am could think something like that!

  • 1 decade ago

    Technically the U.S. is a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC...i'm not gonna answer the question...

    *Edit* P.S. Anarchy sucks

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Put down the pipe, dude.

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