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[lawcat]

U.S. is a socialist republic.

Every representative democracy is a social system. We are a form of representative democracy, therefore we are a social system.
However, our representative democracy is a constitutional representative republic. This makes it the closest thing to oligarchy--the rule of the most powerful--of all representative democracies; our system is also the farthest from communism which is the ultimate social system--the social tyranny.
The reason for that is that in a republic, necessarily, those with most money are best represented; therefore republic is always oligarchial in nature. But, because our system is constitutional and representative, we are also social.

The inherent social nature of our system comes from our government's purpose. The purpose of our government is "public safety and welfare." In a representative state, there is an "imaginary public person" whose "safety and welfare" the government primarily protects. That imaginary public person is an emboddiment of the collective.

In a social state, such as ours, the imaginary public person is always--well almost always--more important than any individual, even though it is the individual who lives limited life on this planet.

We are also constitutional: the governement is ordered and individual liberties are ordered under the constitution. When it comes to iindividual, only basic fundamental liberties are protected: equal protection, notice and hearing, voting rights, reasonable search and seizure, freedom of thought, speech and press, etc. But all those individual rights are still subject to the rights of the public imaginary person who is almost always more important.

Because we are a republic, and those who are most powerful always look for highest profits; then, in our system the social decision-making sometimes favors profits.

So, we are in essence a socialist republic--a dichotomy. Sometimes a socialist agenda (the public person) prevails, and sometimes the profit making for the benefit of few prevails.

The question is always whether the public person's interest is more congruent with individual's needs, or whether the profit maker's interest is congruent with individual's needs. Hence the perpetual battle between the parties..

Today, it appears, that the public Healthcare will prevail. I personally want to see public heatlhcare in U.S. I want to see it. If it fails so be it.