Democracy is Socialism.
America is a Republic, in which individuals have inaliable rights that can not be stripped away by power hungry tyrants.
One of our rights is the right to keep and bear arms, in which we can enforce all the other rights we have from power hungry tyrants.
In a democracy, those in power decide what rights the people have or don’t have.
JLB
I understand you are linking certain labels together, in a way that puts certain groups outside the societies choice, socialism, and others within societies choice, the ability to kill people at ones own discretion.
A parliamentary or house democracy is simply a way of representatives to pass laws by which the society is governed.
A communist state is ruled by the party of true dedicated communists who dictate to the society what can and cannot be done.
A dictatorship is a state where an individual creates and rules to structure by decree.
You can corrupt all three power structures, and it happens to degrees in every system. Historically our democracy's have over a 20 year period supported the best advances and changes, especially with a highly educated and motivated population.
Power has rested on the power of industrial strength to produce goods, in more and more economical ways. The conflict of our day that is growing is how a communist state can harness economic and industrial power to overtake the world, over a self adjusting democratic system.
The rise of the british empire I could argue was founded on the success of mass produced steel, and the ability to transport goods around the world to new markets. The system that created this was not democracy as we know it today, but dictatorship of land owners and later factory owners of the day.
I read a paper on the projected decline of our civilisation in 2040 predicted back in 1972 from an MIT study. We are using up the worlds resources and unless we shift, no system will stop this problem. We may personally believe our culture has done x, we are the best, but this is mainly propaganda.
Our calling is to walk the way of Jesus, share His love with those we know and see His light dawn and grow in peoples hearts. God bless you