American democracy is a failure.

Pro took a very important first step, coming to understand “America is not a democracy” and I applaud him for that. And in this light, the proper titled for this debate should be: United States’ Republic is a Failure. On that note, Pro's Round 1 argument suggests the US constitutional republic is a “failure.” Pro also made the claim that some other form of governance such as a “parliamentary monarchy or socialist” would “succeed.” Greece is a “parliamentary” form of government and look what is happening in Greece today. Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a “socialist” form of government and millions had died from this incarnation, oh the humanity. Perhaps, it is not the form of government, but the culture and moral factor of its leaders. Pro lamented about “human rights ...slavery, Jim Crow, ...Women's Rights ...Gay Marriage ...white privilege, racism, sexism, and numerous other freedom inhibiting laws...”As for “human rights” the US Constitution was the first form of governance to embrace and protect the individual's Unalienable Rights from the crimes of others and from the crimes of government, no more, no less. The State governments did all the rest, compete with each other for the best and brightest. This experiment changed the world like no other social system in recorded history in a short 200 year period, by the fruits of technology, food production, and medicine, the stables of human existence throughout the world today. A compelling example when our Unalienable Rights are free to morally flow forward (Constructal Law) within the awesome machinery of Nature.The mission to embrace and protect everyone's Unalienable Rights, the US started with a difficult task relative to the cultural reality of the day. Cultural norms do not change overnight, because they are inherently conservative. For example, “slavery” and “woman's” standing in society were deeply rooted in the culture, including the norms of the ruling-class, for they too reflect the culture of the day. Our founding Fathers knew Unalienable Rights will remove cultural ills, as a result, “slavery,” the treatment of “woman,” and today's “Gay Marriage,” etc, in time during the evolution of culture as a function of our Unalienable Rights and the design of Congress, representing the people (the House), the states (the Senate), and the only branch to make law correcting such cultural ills by embracing and protecting the individual's Unalienable Rights.However, the immoral conduct of our leaders slowly morphed our form of governance into some tyrannical rich ruling-class oligarch, over the last hundred years. Today, we are in a post constitutional era, where the ruling-class no longer follows our Constitutional republic, but emulates some form of Marxism. Pro may be surprised to learn the US follows the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto closer than following the US Constitution.http://www.libertyzone.com...John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, gave us a warning:“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”http://www.john-adams-heritage.com... As for “racism, sexism, white privilege ...” for the most part, those are businesses or ways to divide and conquer subsets of the populist enhancing political hype and social stress to advance some ruling-class objective. Two quotes by Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) African American political leader, educator and author: http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net... "There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. ... ""There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." Pro made reference to “Jim Crow,” a classic example of the Supreme Court working outside the US Constitution making law. Only the Congress can make law not the courts, nor a President with his “pen and phone.” Today, everyone is making law and regulations (Congress, the courts, the President, EPA, IRS, NSA, and hundreds of other departments that are not in the Constitution). For example, relative to Pro's observation of those “numerous other freedom inhibiting laws” there are so many laws on the books, on the average we commit 3 felonies a day.http://www.amazon.com... http://blogs.loc.gov...As Lavrenti Beria, chief of Josef Stalin's secret police, once stated, “You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime.”So true is the police state of today's US. The ruling-class decides what laws to enforce or not. Not so much of those “white privilege,” but the “privilege” of the ruling-class who seem to be above the law. I think I addressed most of Pro's Round 1 arguments. The United States' Republic is NOT a Failure! Our biggest nemesis is the morality factor of our leaders not following the Constitution. Something to think about during our next election cycle.