Do you believe in democracy?

[Vlad_Russian]

Do you believe in democracy?

"True democracy is despotism of proletarians". Voltaire

"Democracy ends when the put sheet in the box". D.Yatskov

"Democracy - is just a dream, as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and paradise". Henry Louis Mencken.

 

[SniperFire]

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.

Liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the vote.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Do you believe in democracy?

"True democracy is despotism of proletarians". Voltaire

"Democracy ends when the put sheet in the box". D.Yatskov

"Democracy - is just a dream, as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and paradise". Henry Louis Mencken.

Democracy promotes mob rule, that does not protect individual rights, I prefer a Republic

 

[Vlad_Russian]

Do you believe in democracy?

"True democracy is despotism of proletarians". Voltaire

"Democracy ends when the put sheet in the box". D.Yatskov

"Democracy - is just a dream, as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and paradise". Henry Louis Mencken.

Democracy promotes mob rule, that does not protect individual rights, I prefer a Republic

Liberalism?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Do you believe in democracy?

"True democracy is despotism of proletarians". Voltaire

"Democracy ends when the put sheet in the box". D.Yatskov

"Democracy - is just a dream, as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and paradise". Henry Louis Mencken.

Democracy promotes mob rule, that does not protect individual rights, I prefer a Republic

Liberalism?

What kind of comment is that? Liberalism does not protect individual rights, stop being foolish.

 

[Vlad_Russian]

Democracy promotes mob rule, that does not protect individual rights, I prefer a Republic

Liberalism?

What kind of comment is that? Liberalism does not protect individual rights, stop being foolish.

Liberalism is protect individual rights! You are wrong.

www.wikipedia.org

 

[peach174]

I prefer what we are suppose to be a Constitutional Republic.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Liberalism?

What kind of comment is that? Liberalism does not protect individual rights, stop being foolish.

Liberalism is protect individual rights! You are wrong.

www.wikipedia.org

Don't say someone is wrong and use Wiki as your lone source for your argument it's really bad form.
ARTICLE 4
SECTION 4.

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Article IV | U.S. Constitution | LII / Legal Information Institute

Liberals do not protect individual rights. If they did why are most liberals anti gun?

 

[Vlad_Russian]

Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion.

Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion.

Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I told you about that wiki source derp

 

[occupied]

What kind of comment is that? Liberalism does not protect individual rights, stop being foolish.

Liberalism is protect individual rights! You are wrong.

www.wikipedia.org

Don't say someone is wrong and use Wiki as your lone source for your argument it's really bad form.
ARTICLE 4
SECTION 4.

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Article IV | U.S. Constitution | LII / Legal Information Institute

Liberals do not protect individual rights. If they did why are most liberals anti gun?

If this guy is actually from Russia his definition of liberalism is different than our screwed-up politically tainted definition of the word.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Liberalism is protect individual rights! You are wrong.

www.wikipedia.org

Don't say someone is wrong and use Wiki as your lone source for your argument it's really bad form.
ARTICLE 4
SECTION 4.

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Article IV | U.S. Constitution | LII / Legal Information Institute

Liberals do not protect individual rights. If they did why are most liberals anti gun?

If this guy is actually from Russia his definition of liberalism is different than our screwed-up politically tainted definition of the word.

OH I see.

 

[occupied]

Don't say someone is wrong and use Wiki as your lone source for your argument it's really bad form.
ARTICLE 4
SECTION 4.

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Article IV | U.S. Constitution | LII / Legal Information Institute

Liberals do not protect individual rights. If they did why are most liberals anti gun?

If this guy is actually from Russia his definition of liberalism is different than our screwed-up politically tainted definition of the word.

OH I see.

Are you somehow unaware that most of the political definitions used by the right in this country differ significantly from the textbook definitions used by political and social scientists for decades?

 

[California Girl]

Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion.

Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion.

Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I tried to warn him.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

If this guy is actually from Russia his definition of liberalism is different than our screwed-up politically tainted definition of the word.

OH I see.

Are you somehow unaware that most of the political definitions used by the right in this country differ significantly from the textbook definitions used by political and social scientists for decades?

OH I see the founders were liberals argument? Got it.

 

[peach174]

Liberalism (from the Latin liberals) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion.

Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To bad the Liberals in America are just the opposite of that definition.

 

[SniperFire]

Liberalism (from the Latin liberals) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and the free exercise of religion.

Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To bad the Liberals in America are just the opposite of that definition.

The operate more like Che on the OP's tee-shirt.

 

[Foxfyre]

Now look up Wikipedia's definition of Classical Liberalism and you have a pretty good definition of modern day American conservatism.

The Founders quite properly rejected Democracy as a form of government because of what some of you have already touched on. The Founder intended the No, 1 function of government to be to acknowledge, protect, and defend the unalienable rights of the people. A Democracy too easily runs roughshod over rights.

However, once our rights are acknowledged, protected, and defended, then democracy works for deciding everything else.

 

[kaz]

Liberalism?

What kind of comment is that? Liberalism does not protect individual rights, stop being foolish.

Liberalism is protect individual rights! You are wrong.

Classic liberalism protects individual rights. American liberals look out for themselves.