Posted on 11/22/2022 8:59:13 AM PST by Red Badger
All true we see it daily now
Democracy implies that there is a certain unfairness between the haves and have nots and voting allows the underclass to right the wrongs of injustices inherent in the system.
When most people talk about "being in the majority" they're thinking the majority of "the US population" or maybe "the US adult population", most of whom often do not vote.
East Germany thought themselves a “democratic republic”.
North Korea calls themselves a “democratic republic”.
Quite simply, democracy is MOB RULE.
Famous ‘mobs’ -— Russian revolution, French Revolution......
They use that word to drill it into minds that democrats are the sole and rightful owners of a “democracy “
DEMOCRACY is 3 wolves and 2 sheep deciding what’s for dinner!
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Anarchy is one wolf and 3 sheep, and the wolf still decides what’s for dinner.
Our constitutional republic and/or representative democracy still wont stand if the constraints of government are not enforced.
yep, they are even letting the criminals vote now!
Is it any real surprise that after allowing felons to vote.. that DA starting getting elected that promised not to prosecute certain crimes and to let people out of jail?
Of course the criminals are going to vote for people who want enforce the law and will let them out of jail !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because they WANT democracy. Mob rule. The worst governments in history are “democracies.”
Wilson used the term a lot also!
Arguing about whether the US is a "democracy" vaguely defined or a "constitutional republic" is just like moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.
Under a constitutional republic, states have more powers and rights, not individuals. In some cases, the feds have come to the rescue of individuals against the crimes committed against them by the states.
The real change is that "democracy" use to mean government by white male landowners. This meant that people who tended to be more sensible and had a larger stake in the future of the US were the only ones who voted. Now anyone above a certain age can vote which means more gimmedats voting to take things away from the productive few.
States' rights were dealt a massive blow after the Civil War when they were manacled to slavery. Since then cities and states have tended to overpromise their residents and run deficits that need to be filled in from the feds who are the only ones who can print money.
Even if there were some attempts to revive States' Rights, the feds could just come in and take all their subsidies away.
The real fight is not between "democracy" vaguely defined and a constitutional republic. It is a fight between oligarchy and representative and constitutional democracy, i.e. a democracy that truly represents the people and is limited by a constitution regardless of what the government or the people wish it to say.
The oligarchs are busy importing waves of gimmedats into the US. They claim this is because they care about the individuals who are coming in, but in reality they know that it will create a crisis that they can claim they are the only ones capable of fixing. Anyone who argues otherwise will be labeled a racist xenophobe.
Ultimately it is not the hordes of gimmedats we have to worry about, but the oligarchs who pretend to represent us that need to go.
In a sound Republic we would teach this in our schools. However, our failed public schools foreshadows our failed republic.
Exactly right.
We lost the republic with the 17th amendment federalizing the senate. State control and representation through the senate was the linchpin to the founders vision.
Agree!
I pledge allegiance to the Flag…
See Federalist No.10.
There should be a Constitutional test. If you fail, go home.
Individual liberty is allowing a communist takeover of the USA.
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