The Illusion of a Democracy

From early childhood through the high school years, we are sold on the illusion of a democracy. People often believe this is what the United States is about and many are proud of it. I for one was. It was certainly a great democracy in the days of our Founding Fathers like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately now, it is used a selling point in order to invade other countries. "We must set up a democracy in Iraq." A democracy, huh? Well ideally that would sound great but under the current administration and Congress, we are fast approaching a totalitarian government. It has constantly violated our Constitutions rights and underlying principles of this country. The idea of a democracy is representation of the people in government. Currently what we have is representation of wealthy corporations in the Republican Congress. Citizens are no longer represented effectively except that every now and then, we'll seem something rare. Our tax dollars, which is a considerable size of our paychecks, at least 30-40% seems like a lot to me, are spent to support wealthy corporations and conduct wars on their behalf under the illusion of democracy.

Money buys power. Money buys representation. Congressmen are not allowed to touch our tax dollars directly but can influence legislation and approve of wars that send our tax dollars to corporations. Why would they do this? Well for one, these wealth corporations have a way of influencing and paying Congressmen millions of dollars for their assistance. Money rules the world, it buys legislation and votes. You may say that Congress is only the U.S. and not the world, but is it not true that the U.S. almost controls the world and decides that on its own. Never mind the false illusion of the United Nations, the United States when it wants to starts a war. This is done with false evidence and allegations. Look how we got in the war with Iraq claiming they had weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda. None of this has proven to be true. If the money from wealthy corporations like Halliburton and other oil companies are enough to influence the president and his decisions, where is a democracy and representation of its people stand?

Are we really setting up a "Democracy" in Iraq? Do we even live in a Democracy? Yet this is a good selling point .