Our Republic died a long time ago

Tyler Benjamin wrote that we are witnessing the slow death of our Republic, the Republic that was established in 1787 during the federal convention which convened to revise our Articles of Confederation, but gave us a national government. A Republic instead is dead. It died a long time ago.

In a Republic we elect people to vote on issues according to how the majority of the people want him to vote on the issue. This is not happening. Our media is partly to blame. Instead of asking our representatives how they will vote on an issue, they should be asking if we know how the people he represents want him to vote on an issue.

Clearly, political parties are not needed in a Republic. They should be abolished along with the Senate. We need only representatives. We are not living in a republic, nor are we living in a democracy. We have living in a government, by the few, an oligarchy.

Chuck Coletta

Lombard