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If my reply was word salad to you the rest goes without saying.Keep chopping up that word salad. S'Matter? No more traction on fraudulent elections?
Honestly, we understand you feel safe under a dictator. But the rest of us like our democracy.
My thread. My play. You lose. The mods should thread ban you. Believe me, I know they are capable.I have seen the list of right wing greivences over and over. I am aware of their perceived reality.
Did you want to talk about your thread topic now or did you really want to talk about those other things?
Your play.
The Mods aren't banning people because you don't know how to use a fucking dictionary.My thread. My play. You lose. The mods should thread ban you. Believe me, I know they are capable.
Look. I don't know why you people keep hashing this minutia. Enlighten me. What's your point here? What is it that your purpose in drawing this difference? The only reason I can see is that you want a justification for an iron man, or strong man (dictator). Specifically, to fawn over a specific man that for some unknown reason makes you feel safe.If my reply was word salad to you the rest goes without saying.
Are you people? Could have fooled me.The Mods aren't banning people because you don't know how to use a fucking dictionary.
The point is the democracy you assholes keep saying is threatened simply does not exist. Doh!Look. I don't know why you people keep hashing this minutia. Enlighten me. What's your point here? What is it that your purpose in drawing this difference? The only reason I can see is that you want a justification for an iron man, or strong man (dictator). Specifically, to fawn over a specific man that for some unknown reason makes you feel safe.
We are a democracy. Either embrace it, or get the fuck out. The rest of us are tired of your constant complaining.
We are a democracy. Embrace it...or leave.The point is the democracy you assholes keep saying is threatened simply does not exist. Doh!
We are not. You left this country a long time ago.We are a democracy. Embrace it...or leave.
If that was you as the woman? No way.Democracy is four men and one woman on a deserted island.
Guess who's going to get screwed!
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If that was you as the woman? No way.
Just because you don't know what a representative democracy is doesn't mean it doesn't exist.The point is the democracy you assholes keep saying is threatened simply does not exist. Doh!
I find it hilarious that Democrats bitch about gerrymandering without truly understanding the concept. They don't realize it was named for a Vice President of the United States. They also do not realize that both political parties use it.We should be asking ourselves why Repubs are playing semantic games with the terms we use to describe our form of government.
Why the Right Keeps Saying That the United States Isn’t a Democracy
Lee’s words also underscore something else: that many on the right view voting as an existential threat. At a gathering of evangelicals back in 1980, Paul Weyrich, a Republican strategist and a co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, asked, “How many of our Christians have what I call the ‘goo-goo syndrome’? Good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
Gerrymandering and restrictive voter-I.D. laws are products of this sentiment, as are the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, legal impediments to casting ballots, and voter suppression propagated through social media. These efforts, which began before Donald Trump’s Presidency, intensified when he took office, and have escalated as the 2020 election approaches. Lately, we’ve watched as Republican-controlled state legislatures, Republican-appointed judges, and Republican secretaries of state shutter polling places, limit the number of ballot drop boxes, undo the restoration of felons’ voting rights, and prevent absentee voting. The hacking of this election—through the use of such democratic institutions as the courts and the legislatures, which are exploited to erode and subvert democratic norms—is under way, and it has been for years.
The paradox of American democracy is that its survival is a choice; it persists solely at the discretion of an electorate that can, if it so wills, dismantle it. If the polls are accurate, Trump’s reëlection bid is in trouble. Early voting in swing states indicates that more Democrats have voted than Republicans, and groups that supported Trump in 2016, such as white, suburban woman, are abandoning him. Apparently, Trump sees cheating as his best chance to win, so he has been denouncing voting by mail, actively kneecapping the U.S. Postal Service, loudly complaining about voter fraud, injecting all sorts of misinformation into the media, and doing nothing to deter Russian meddling in the election. We need to be concerned about foreign intrusions, such as those that Microsoft revealed on October 12th, and others reported by the intelligence community two days later. We also need to be alert to the many weak links in our election infrastructure that can be sabotaged: machines that don’t produce paper backups and can’t be audited; machines that tally the vote using unreadable barcodes, which prevent voters from checking their accuracy; electronic poll books that are not subject to cybersecurity review; and unpatched software that leaves voting machines vulnerable to manipulation, to name just a few.
Democracy relies on trust. Not trust in democracy itself but trust in one another. When we vote, we come together to articulate our singular will with the understanding that we will submit to the collective will. Trust permeates the system: we trust that our vote will be counted accurately; we trust that the people we’re choosing to represent us have our best interests and those of the country at heart. The most sacred trust is that, when the votes are all tallied, the losing candidate will walk away with grace. Donald Trump, abetted by Attorney General William Barr, who earlier this month deputized federal prosecutors to investigate claims of voter fraud before the polls close, is busy abusing this trust. If, ultimately, Trump, Barr, and others were to subvert the election, Mike Lee’s claim that we aren’t a democracy will turn out to have been prescient.
Why the Right Keeps Saying That the United States Isnât a Democracy
Our electoral rights have been debased by those who use the claim that America is a republic, and the libertarianism on which that claim feeds, to justify siphoning power from the electorate.www.newyorker.com
its just a response to lastamender's open borders nonsense.Hate boi, What the fuck does that have to do with the thread topic?
Where do you find the word "democracy" in the Constitution?We are a democracy. Embrace it...or leave.
Where do you find the word "democracy" in the Constitution?
Yes. Like voting in elections.
Ok.
I assume you mean constitutional Republic? But yes, voting in an election is a democratic aspect of our government.
Well again. The only thing that makes us a constitutional Republic at all is the actual constitution.
Essentially in that case we are a constitutional Republic because the constitution protects the rights of the minority from majority rule. It's supposed to anyhow.
For example, if a majority of Americans wanted the federal government to support a religion, despite having a majority, the constitution prohibits it.
At least that is the way I understand it.
Nothing about us being a Constitional Republic stops us from also being a Representative Democracy. Also the Constitution wasn't written by mother nature it was written by a mob of men. Make no mistake everywhere there are rules they are mob rules. Why do words and simple reality frighten you Simps?
You're too stupid.
No. I think I'll stick around and continue to own you in your own thread you ignorant fucktard.
Still can't explain how we're not a representative democracy? Need me to call some ambulance chasers to explain those very simple words to you?
