Democracy Debater Gifts

"We can't come to an agreement about how to fix your car, Mr. Simons. Sometimes that's the way things happen in a democracy."

'If this family is a democracy, how come I can't run for Father?'

Democracy - one of the drawbacks.

CONGRESS, 'No, no, you don't HAVE to fool all of the people all of the time - you just need to CONFUSE them!'

"But I don't want my constituents to vote for the most qualified candidate! I want them to vote for me!"

"I'm a confirmed Democritic."

"Well, we all vote on what's best for the family...and then we do exactly what our leader says."

"That's six 'noes' and one 'aye', the ayes have it"

Citizens' Jury - 'The jury thinks you should get rid of Citizens' Juries.'

"Remind me again, what's our position on democracy?"

"We've had a vote and decided not to have a vote."

'Grandpa, why do you like to live here in Germany?'

Vote 'Yes' or 'No' on nothing in particular - click to see results.

'Well if you don't get it, you should stand for parliament!'

'We decided to vacation in the U.S. It's the only country whose electoral process we can trust.'

'The people you can fool all of the time are our base.'

"Of course I'm delighted to have lost the election - so would you be if you had made the promises I had."

Elections in Cuba

The Art of Democracy

Parliament

"An election is like a car repair where the car owner has to pay a lot of money to have old broken parts replaced with new broken parts."

Partisan America

Anyone Can Become Prime Minister

"All those in favor of switching from a caucus system to a kind of Hunger Games battle royale between the candidates, say aye."

"American political parties at a glance"

Even a Broken Democracy

Why America Is the Best Democracy in the World

Saddam vs. Clown Car

Inevitably

Anyone Can Be President

Bush vs. America

'A congressional hearing'

You're on "Ask Sadie." What's your problem?! Super delegates. A candidate could win the most votes in the primaries but lose anyway of the superdelegates want someone else! Can you believe that? Oh stop yer sniveling. In my day, the parties chose candidates in smoke-filled backrooms without even pretending the people get a vote. At least this charade gets you out of the house. Gets the blood pumping. I guess.

Poll. If the election was being held today, where would you hide?

Psychiatry. I'm starting to take it personally when people say we have a representative government.