The Terribleness of some of you here having kept the Keyboard Warriors of USMB, far away from Washington D.C. on Jan 6

[ThunderKiss1965]

‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.

www.theatlantic.com

quotes from 2020: Dependent on a minority of the population to hold national power, Republicans such as Senator Mike Lee of Utah have taken to reminding the public that “we’re not a democracy.” It is quaint that so many Republicans, embracing a president who routinely tramples constitutional norms, have suddenly found their voice in pointing out that, formally, the country is a republic. There is some truth to this insistence. But it is mostly disingenuous. The Constitution was meant to foster a complex form of majority rule, not enable minority rule.

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Democracy in the United States

The United States is a representative democracy.

This means that our government is elected by citizens.

Here, citizens vote for their government officials.

These officials represent the citizens’ ideas and concerns in government.

Voting is one way to participate in our democracy.

Citizens can also contact their officials when they want to support or change a law.

Voting in an election and contacting our elected officials are two ways that
Americans can participate in their democracy.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/lesson-plans/Government_and_You_handouts.pdf

I can post opinion pieces to the end of time on what form of Government the US has. Instead I went straight to the source and the Founders where very clear that the US is a Constitutional Republic.

The elite on the left like to toss around the word Democracy so that they have sheep like yourself terrified your going to lose something that the US has never been.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

I can post opinion pieces to the end of time on what form of Government the US has. Instead I went straight to the source and the Founders where very clear that the US is a Constitutional Republic.

The elite on the left like to toss around the word Democracy so that they have sheep like yourself terrified your going to lose something that the US has never been.

you keep insisting quite wrongly that it is an either or. We have a constitutional federal republic, that uses a form of representative democracy in order to elect our representatives.

The founders, actually the framers, determined the language in the Constitution. It was an up or down vote. The founding generation was all over the place on what form of government they wanted, but they ended up with a representative form of democracy in elections

 

[Leo123]

That some of you here kept the Keyboard Warriors of USMB, here on Jan 6, you kept patriotic Americans in sheets from attempting to keep American democracy from the people. I truly believe that had more people shown up to peacefully protest VP Pence's illegal certification on Jan 6, DJT would've been a winner instead of a loser

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The protesters were peaceful, the government plants were not.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

I can post opinion pieces to the end of time on what form of Government the US has. Instead I went straight to the source and the Founders where very clear that the US is a Constitutional Republic.

The elite on the left like to toss around the word Democracy so that they have sheep like yourself terrified your going to lose something that the US has never been.

It's not The Left, your caricature of the Boogey Man'

Abraham Lincoln said, "Democracy is a rule of the people, for the people and by the people".​

 

[Dante Reawakened]

I can post opinion pieces to the end of time on what form of Government the US has. Instead I went straight to the source and the Founders where very clear that the US is a Constitutional Republic.

The elite on the left like to toss around the word Democracy so that they have sheep like yourself terrified your going to lose something that the US has never been.

even Wikipedia entries show you up:

Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s. The Jeffersonians were deeply committed to American republicanism, which meant opposition to what they considered to be artificial aristocracy, opposition to corruption, and insistence on virtue, with a priority for the "yeoman farmer", "planters", and the "plain folk".[4] They were antagonistic to the aristocratic elitism of merchants, bankers, and manufacturers, distrusted factory workers, and were on the watch for supporters of the Westminster system.

The term was commonly used to refer to the Democratic-Republican Party (formally named the "Republican Party"), which Jefferson founded in opposition to the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton.

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I even think this one beats your imbecilities: "A republic is fundamentally just a democratic country that is run by the people (as opposed to a monarchy, where the ruler gets their authority from God). A federation can be both a republic and a monarchy, it's just the logistics of running the country."

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

even Wikipedia entries show you up:

Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s. The Jeffersonians were deeply committed to American republicanism, which meant opposition to what they considered to be artificial aristocracy, opposition to corruption, and insistence on virtue, with a priority for the "yeoman farmer", "planters", and the "plain folk".[4] They were antagonistic to the aristocratic elitism of merchants, bankers, and manufacturers, distrusted factory workers, and were on the watch for supporters of the Westminster system.

The term was commonly used to refer to the Democratic-Republican Party (formally named the "Republican Party"), which Jefferson founded in opposition to the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton.

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I even think this one beats your imbecilities: "A republic is fundamentally just a democratic country that is run by the people (as opposed to a monarchy, where the ruler gets their authority from God). A federation can be both a republic and a monarchy, it's just the logistics of running the country."

Wikipedia ? The data base that can be edited by anyone ?

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

It's not The Left, your caricature of the Boogey Man'

Abraham Lincoln said, "Democracy is a rule of the people, for the people and by the people".​

Don't give a shit what Lincoln said. The Founding Fathers loathed Democracies and I have proven that with their own words you just keep tossing out opinions made decades afterwards

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Don't give a shit what Lincoln said. The Founding Fathers loathed Democracies and I have proven that with their own words you just keep tossing out opinions made decades afterwards

you're such a tool.

Lincoln was no leftie Democrat or Socialist.

He was a great man who helped put the Lost Cause in it's place. F()k the Cracker Factory better known as the Old South

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Wikipedia ? The data base that can be edited by anyone ?

then try and refute it

you can't

because you're..

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

then try and refute it

you can't

because you're..

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I did you fucking loon, with direct quotes from the Founding Fathers. You know ,the men who created the Constitutional Republic that is the US.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

I did you fucking loon, with direct quotes from the Founding Fathers. You know ,the men who created the Constitutional Republic that is the US.

you're hung up on semantics because of your agenda.

you're as transparent as a sheet of glass

 

[Dante Reawakened]

I did you fucking loon, with direct quotes from the Founding Fathers. You know ,the men who created the Constitutional Republic that is the US.

and those long dead white men gave us the ability to change it all

idol worship is not what they wanted.

Madison once wrote to a friend, to look for the meanings in the document, to those who ratified the document -- the people -- than to those who were clerks/wrote it

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

you're hung up on semantics because of your agenda.

you're as transparent as a sheet of glass

Agenda ? I'm not the one trying to make the US something it has never been because some elitist loon convinced you that the the country is a Democracy and your going to lose it if you don't keep them in power.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

and those long dead white men gave us the ability to change it all

idol worship is not what they wanted.

Madison once wrote to a friend, to look for the meanings in the document, to those who ratified the document -- the people -- than to those who were clerks/wrote it

"long dead white men" ?

I worship nothing, but I have a healthy respect for the Constitution.

 

[themirrorthief]

Don't give a shit what Lincoln said. The Founding Fathers loathed Democracies and I have proven that with their own words you just keep tossing out opinions made decades afterwards

name a few democracies before 177 6

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Agenda ? I'm not the one trying to make the US something it has never been because some elitist loon convinced you that the the country is a Democracy and your going to lose it if you don't keep them in power.

Your agenda is transparent

 

[themirrorthief]

and those long dead white men gave us the ability to change it all

idol worship is not what they wanted.

Madison once wrote to a friend, to look for the meanings in the document, to those who ratified the document -- the people -- than to those who were clerks/wrote it

thank God that He gave you all knowledge...to bad you have failed at life tho

 

[Dante Reawakened]

"long dead white men" ?

I worship nothing, but I have a healthy respect for the Constitution.

LOL

gave up hiding behind the flag, and graduated to hiding behind the constitution

you people are a joke, believing you can hijack national symbols

 

[Leo123]

and those long dead white men gave us the ability to change it all

idol worship is not what they wanted.

Madison once wrote to a friend, to look for the meanings in the document, to those who ratified the document -- the people -- than to those who were clerks/wrote it

That's a Marxist dream.

 

[Leo123]

LOL

gave up hiding behind the flag, and graduated to hiding behind the constitution

you people are a joke, believing you can hijack national symbols

I would say that you Marxists are a joke, believing you ca hijack national American symbols.