because the United States does not want people to “interpret freedom of assembly to mean freedom to create riots by provocation” (Lewis 478). However, a democratic nation cannot simply restrict all of their citizens’ freedoms because of their fear of failure without reviewing each case. Democracy is a very complex system that requires a nation to meet a lot of criteria. To be a democracy, a nation must its people to rule, every person has to be equal and every person has to have the freedom to do what they want. The United States of America, though thought of as a democracy, does not meet all of these criteria. American citizens do not have a direct vote for their president or laws. Instead they vote for an elector who votes for them. Citizens are not all treated equal and have not been for a very long time. America treats minorities such as African Americans, Hispanics and women like inferior beings for the majority of American history. Similarly, citizens do not receive their freedom all of the time. Due to its fear of being overthrown, the U.S. government constantly denounces Americans' first amendment rights without any doubts. The American democracy simply “…becomes concealment and falsity – it conceals oligocracy under its pretensions of naming a people the demos, it succumbs to the magic of the sovereign decision, which is nothing but the continuity of taxation as plunder, it self-cancels the concept of the people under the weight of mobocratic elements and it erases liberty under a generalized anxiety condition, a phobocratic continuum” (Aradau 3-4). The American government system is a false interpretation of a democracy. If Americans do not recognize this lie soon, they will continue to be tricked into believing that they are the directors of power in this nation, when in reality they are in the audience watching the government control the show.
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