Welcome to Team America First. Buy (more) guns and ammoWell, since the Libertarian candidate **** his rainbow diaper, the sham trial shifted me from solidly "none of the above" to, as the meme said, "TRUMP! Because, **** you"
lol, I've seen this posted a few times and just noticed 11th "Woman" of the 12. LMAO.
A threat to the republic - Washington Examiner
Former President Donald Trump, we are repeatedly told by President Joe Biden and his campaign surrogates, is a threat to democracy.washingtonexaminer.com
A decent read.
Those who call us a Democracy may not enjoy it. As it calls the USA a Republic just like I was taught in high school, and college many years ago.
Benjamin Franklin said it was a Republic.I call the U.S a democracy AND I call it a republic. The two are not mutually exclusive. The article calls the US a democracy and a republic.
This statement:
But to the extent that democracies and republics are different, and they are, the authors of our Constitution most assuredly wanted to ensure that the country they were creating was a republic and not merely a democracy.
Democracies and republics are different in that a democracy does not have to be a republic. A republic does not have to be a democracy. But they can be. Democracies and republics are not mutually exclusive. A couple of examples.
The UK is a parliamentary democracy but it's sovereign is the monarchy. So the UK is not a Republic. The US is a representative democracy and it's sovereign are the various states, and the people. That makes it a republic, because it's sovereign power is not a person or family or royalty.
Again, the issue is that the Left and Right think of democracies differently from the way that we're democratic. The right gets puffy when someone says we're a democracy. But they're inferring from the word "democracy" that direct democracy is intended.
The left gets all orgasmic when they say democracy, because they like mob rule of direct democracy, because they control the mob. But, the way in which we are a democracy is in that we have an elected representative government.
No more. No less. A democracy. And a republic. No kings. No dicktaters. Limited government. At least that was the intent. We function as an oligarchy.
Benjamin Franklin said it was a Republic.
“A Republic, If You Can Keep It”
No democracy at all. We are not even close to a democracy.
We vote in representatives, and those representatives make the law.
We the people at state level could be a democracy if the system of government for said state was. I don't know of any state in the union that is a democracy.
Except when it comes to his....hand size.
Wrong and by who's definition are you going by?
LOL. If you vote in representatives, THAT'S democracy.
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You're imposing a definition of pure or direct democracy to assert we're no democracy at all. In a direct democracy the electorate decides policy, without having representatives. We're definitely not that, although some state and local governments have a system for referendums on ballots, which is direct democracy.
The closest state to a direct democracy is Switzerland. Almost all democracies on earth are representative. Oh. And most of those are republics. Switzerland, being so close to a pure/direct democracy, is also a republic!
Even the article you posted agrees that republics like ours, and democracy are not mutually exclusive. Representative republics like ours are democracies, just not direct democracies.
Every state in the union is a democracy. There are no dicktaters/kings with sole state sovereignty among the states. None of them are direct democracies, though Kalifornia is close. Like I said, referendums is an implementation of direct democracy. But, the US constitution requires that every state has a republican form of government, which is meant to call out representative government elected by the people. So republican, and democratic.
"Democracy" is not a bad word unless you mean it the way progressives mean it. Take back the word and be proud of a system that allows you to have some say in the way we're governed, with no king to overrule the rule of law, and yet not have mob rule like a direct democracy.
Wish I could share this all over......
Oxford.Wrong and by who's definition are you going by?
Wrong. Democracy can be that. It has different meanings. One of which is rule of the majority. Another is a system which elects representatives through a democratic process.Democracy is rule of the majority. What the majority want they get no representation it just becomes law.
Yes we do. Our system is a form of democracy. It's not a pure democracy, thankfully. Our elected representatives don't have full power. They have limited power. That's not what makes us a republic though. Not having a king or dicktater makes us a republic.We do not have a Democracy.
A pure democracy is majority rule. But, the highlighted is evidence that we are a democracy at least a little, because in this election especially, we are relying on convincing a majority of people to vote for DJT. That's voting for an outcome to keep our constitutionally limited republic.For instance a Democracy will not protect others rights. It will take them away if that is what the majority wants. Nothing to stop it except convincing the majority.
Wow. Sounds like a democracy.This is what we have.
republic
noun
re·pub·lic ri-ˈpə-blik
Synonyms of republic
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a
(1)
: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
(2)
: a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government
b
(1)
: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law
Not true. As I said, words have different meanings. And, as I said, there are almost no pure democracies in the world.Democracy is pure majority rule. Anything else isn't a democracy.
So you just admitted there are no true democracies in the entire world.