Exemplification Essay: The Role Of Democracy In America

Democracy is fragile. Proven in America in 1913, when once again the entitled class of elites who had claimed stakes too high to lose to a democratic system of government took possession of American prosperity when they convinced then President Woodrow Wilson that the American economy was better off if they controlled it, essentially placing America into a never-ending cycle of unpayable debt. Gold being the key, was removed as the value of the American economy and loans from the World Bank became its source of revenue. This act forever changed what the American fore fathers intended American democracy to be. In his memoirs Wilson wrote, “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by …show more content…
Under democratic forms of government, equality, freedom and civil rights allow group consensus, choice, opposition and authority. It’s where hard work challenges competition, risks meets reward and preservation of the greater good outweighs a moment of bliss. Conducive to the principles of liberty, the idea and vision of democracy allows the people the freedom to be skeptical. To love their country, but fear their government or the freedom to believe in justice but not trust the courts. Democracy’s intent is to uphold equality while providing justice for all, although both are sometimes un-objective without impartiality. From its wake, cultural values within a democracy are based in the influence of acceptable morality where the people are encouraged to practice fair play, behave within acceptable social etiquette and live by the spirit of the law and its moral decree. Unfortunately, there are no absolute true democracies in the