This article is spot on! The Republicans need to fight like Hell In order for the rank and file Democrats(Reagan Democrats) to cross over parties. They need to know we love freedom. Many Democrats do too. They have just fallen asleep.
I don't see how you can draw that conclusion from Franklin's remark.
Given the history of the last 2000 years he was far more likely thinking of the possibility of the Republic degenerating into a tyranny or monarchy.
As indeed the French Republic did only a few years later. After, to be fair, going through a series of upheavals associated in some cases with excessive democracy.
We have already lost the republic. It no longer functions to represent the people. It is run by 5 court members, an out of control executive, and a useless legislative.
We no longer have one.
I doubt that it will be kept because Americans are now ignorant of how their freedom came about and under what system. Government education has brainwashed students and has steered them toward socialism and communism since the 1970s. A small very wealthy elite wants to rule over 99% of this society and they think they can do that through socialism which will naturally evolve into communism. I wish I could have hope but when the people win elections, nothing changes. And, look at the Supreme Court rulings as of late. It is likely that white people will either die off or be killed off and then the browns and blacks will fight it out for supremacy. Sad.
Can we kill or deport all the leftists and start over? < /sarc >
Yet this week was very, very interesting, with a Mr. Trump brining in a dynamic. B. Franklin would have been pleased.
Died at Appomattox CH.
Died at Appomattox CH.