In the first essay written by Howard Zinn he tries to answer the question of How Democratic Is America?. He seems to know what he istalking a great deal about government but it seems like anybody can just talkabout how our government works and to say that that is the definition ofdemocracy. The only thing he did differently was using an increase invocabulary and try to talk about the same thing over and over again. WhereZinn could have said that democracy not only requires formal system ofgovernment equality to all Americans. But Americans are not the only oneswho deserve this kind of treatment. Everybody from all walks of lifedeserves equality. Instead of summing all that in two lines he goes on andon about the same subject. For instance, Zinns ten criteria that need tofollowed that is what Americans follow in order to have democracy. All heneeded to say there was that everybody needs freedom, liberty, and equalopportunity to succeed no matter what your background.Zinn goes on to describe democracy. First he says that democracyshould be based on the same way America fought for their own governmentduring the American Revolution. Next he goes on to describe democracyby saying what it has become today in the way of its development. It is notthe same as it once was fifty years or more. Another thing, Zinn saysdemocracy is something they do not have in other countries. Theirgovernment will never equal ours because theirs has so many defaults andwe do not have as many. Zinn goes on and on to define what he thinksdemocracy is but he still gets nowhere in trying to prove what he is trying tosay. Zinn does not understand his own definition of democracy. He thinksit is the way government works and the way people live because of thegovernment by which they live under at the same time. Zinn has someinteresting things to say and he makes some good points but for the mostpart I find his essay completely ineffective in what he want...
