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This 5 page paper supports the notion that democracy is still alive and well in America today. The view is supported through a discussion on Herbert Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man and Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. The two works are compared and contrasted and discussed in light of today’s political climate. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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they were written. While there is a large gap or, more than one hundred years, between the writings, the sentiments of each have always existed and their ideologies persist today.
The authors arguments are still relevant, although they take on slightly different meanings in 1990s America. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the early part of the nineteenth century but
his voice reverberates today. This French traveler to the new world wrote that he saw something more in America in that he saw the image of democracy itself. Yes, Tocqueville
was rather idealistic but one can equate that idealism with a lot of political rhetoric of today. What politician does not draw on Thomas Jeffersons words, for example, or note
that the Founding Fathers would or would not have approved of some present day activity? Most today do rely on the ideals of the past and try to mold the
current society to what it was intended more than 200 years ago. Thus, Tocquevilles observations are no less timely than were the Founding Fathers which continue to live in spirit
today. While the entire work is well known, and important, it is the second volume of Democracy in America which is most philosophical. The authors tackle of why Americans are
restless even though prosperous is bold. His work is again just as relevant today as it was at the time it was written. In fact, Robert D. Putnam who not
too long ago created controversy with his essay "Bowling Alone" drew on Tocquevilles observations. Putnams point, as was Tocquevilles, was that civic associations are critical to make democracy work. In
light of that, what would Tocqueville say about democracy in America today? Likely, he would say the same things but would be much more critical of the growing governments role
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