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Be careful with your vote so we don't vote democracy out of existence

Ironic, isn’t it, that a system that provides so many advantages for its citizens also provides the means of its own demise.

Unlike nearly every other system of government that came before it, U.S. democracy offered its citizens individual freedom, respect and relative equality. Yes, it’s true that the founders left women and enslaved people out of their plans, but, thankfully, the nation has moved to implement the founders’ original principles as we have learned more about and moved to embrace what they actually mean.

American democracy makes us the government, gives us a voice in what happen...

 

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