Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

[excalibur]

..."The Utah Republican's tweets on the matter are linked to a long history of Republicans rejecting the notion that the US political system is a democracy. The GOP's objection to calling the US a democracy is tied to the fact Republicans have reason to fear a system in which a majority of Americans have more say. The Republican party's platform is increasingly at odds with the perspectives of most voters on an array of issues."

The word 'democracy' is not in the Constitution. We are not a democracy.

 

[Ben Thomson]

..."The Utah Republican's tweets on the matter are linked to a long history of Republicans rejecting the notion that the US political system is a democracy. The GOP's objection to calling the US a democracy is tied to the fact Republicans have reason to fear a system in which a majority of Americans have more say. The Republican party's platform is increasingly at odds with the perspectives of most voters on an array of issues."

The word 'democracy' is not in the Constitution. We are not a democracy.

'Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives'...again..we are a republic that practices democracy.

 

[okfine]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

The filthy Left often makes this accusation because the Right remains steadfast in their quest to protect and preserve the Declaration Of Independence, The Bill Of Rights, the Constitution, American virtue, values and traditions.

What we have here is a person who can't see with the mind set 100% on BS. The crap in the WH have no values and has shit on traditions and norms.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

We're not a Democracy. We werenever supposed to be.

The article begins by quoting Republican Senator Mike Lee, who is telling the absolute, correct and relevant truth here, then goes on to mock him for it. That seems to be the whole point of the article.

“We’re not a democracy,” Republican Senator Mike Lee tweeted in the middle of Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate. He was reacting to something he’d heard onstage there, in his home state of Utah. Another tweet: “The word ‘democracy’ appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy. It’s a constitutional republic. To me it matters. It should matter to anyone who worries about the excessive accumulation of power in the hands of the few.” Hours after the debate Lee was still worrying the thought: “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”​

Go ahead and read the article, if you wish, but there's no need. I just told you everything you need to know about the article, and the ignorance and.or dishonest of its author. If you truly understand how our government is supposed to work, and why, then you really won't get any more out of reading that article than out of reading my post here.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

We're not a Democracy. We werenever supposed to be.

The article begins by quoting Republican Senator Mike Lee, who is telling the absolute, correct and relevant truth here, then goes on to mock him for it. That seems to be the whole point of the article.

“We’re not a democracy,” Republican Senator Mike Lee tweeted in the middle of Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate. He was reacting to something he’d heard onstage there, in his home state of Utah. Another tweet: “The word ‘democracy’ appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy. It’s a constitutional republic. To me it matters. It should matter to anyone who worries about the excessive accumulation of power in the hands of the few.” Hours after the debate Lee was still worrying the thought: “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”​

Go ahead and read the article, if you wish, but there's no need. I just told you everything you need to know about the article, and the ignorance and.or dishonest of its author. If you truly understand how our government is supposed to work, and why, then you really won't get any more out of reading that article than out of reading my post here.

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

We're not a Democracy. We werenever supposed to be.

The article begins by quoting Republican Senator Mike Lee, who is telling the absolute, correct and relevant truth here, then goes on to mock him for it. That seems to be the whole point of the article.

“We’re not a democracy,” Republican Senator Mike Lee tweeted in the middle of Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate. He was reacting to something he’d heard onstage there, in his home state of Utah. Another tweet: “The word ‘democracy’ appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy. It’s a constitutional republic. To me it matters. It should matter to anyone who worries about the excessive accumulation of power in the hands of the few.” Hours after the debate Lee was still worrying the thought: “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”​

Go ahead and read the article, if you wish, but there's no need. I just told you everything you need to know about the article, and the ignorance and.or dishonest of its author. If you truly understand how our government is supposed to work, and why, then you really won't get any more out of reading that article than out of reading my post here.

'Democracy is a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives'...we don't do that??

 

[Bob Blaylock]

True democracy is a lynch mob, which is why the Democrats have their name.

A Republic has inalienable rights, that cannot be taken away from the masses.

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution states…

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.​

And what it means, exactly, is that we are not a Democracy, but a republic.

 

[JGalt]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Really? So what has Trump done to benefit Kim Jong Un? Or the Chinese President Xi? Or Putin? Or Raul Castro? Or the president of Iran, Venezuela, or any other dictatorship?

What has he given them? Money? Weapons? What?

 

[flacaltenn]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I don't because its new and only has 2500 miles on it.. This tribal party war has made me unsafe and threatened. Not the America I grew up with.. And it's the stinky hypocrisy of partisan play calls like this thread that's ruining my country...

We got issues.. Giving MORE power to the Feds and letting the parties DESIGN voting, debates and violate the basis of Constitutional law -- no matter WHICH party is trying to make this a "one party" country -- sucks.. If ya think they wont succeed because they're dumb and stupid -- Cali is ALREADY designed a one party state with changing voting, and BANNING names from general election ballots.

THERE'S your threat to Democracy in a nutshell... Maybe you have to be stupid, inept and devious to pull it off...

 

[Missourian]

Republicans think it would be wise to stick with the system that has been working for the last quarter of a millennia...

Democrats won under this system almost exactly half the presidential election since 1976.

Carter/D...one term
Reagan/R...two terms
Bush Sr/R...one term
Bubba Clinton/D...two terms
Bush W/R...two terms
Obama/D... two terms
Trump/R...probable 2 but just one so far.

5 terms D
6 terms R


Now quit your fuckin' bellyachin', you whiny little bitches, and win an election under the same Constitutionally dictated structure the last 45 presidents have over the entire 244 years our country has existed.

 

[Ben Thomson]

True democracy is a lynch mob, which is why the Democrats have their name.

A Republic has inalienable rights, that cannot be taken away from the masses.

Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution states…

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.​

And what it means, exactly, is that we are not a Democracy, but a republic.

A republic is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are attained, through democracy, or a mix of democracy with oligarchy and/or autocracy, rather than being unalterably occupied...so again (sigh)..we are a republic that PRACTICES democracy...now we have republicans are trying to take democracy out of the mix and make it purely attained through an oligarchy.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

The word 'democracy' is not in the Constitution.

…and the word “Republican” is.

 

[flacaltenn]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

True democracy scares the hell out of right wingers..an authoritarian oligarchy is their idea of a perfect system of government.

True democracy is a lynch mob, which is why the Democrats have their name.

A Republic has inalienable rights, that cannot be taken away from the masses.

As the old saying goes “ democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for lunch”.

or ten sheep and one wolf

Which gets more "diversity points' ? I lost track of the math for deciding which animal is the more politically correct animal...

 

[Bob Blaylock]

"The Utah Republican's tweets on the matter are linked to a long history of Republicans rejecting the notion that the US political system is a democracy. The GOP's objection to calling the US a democracy is tied to the fact Republicans have reason to fear a system in which a majority of Americans have more say. The Republican party's platform is increasingly at odds with the perspectives of most voters on an array of issues."

A GOP senator said 'rank democracy' is bad for America at a time when Trump is behaving like an authoritarian

The GOP senator is an ally of a president who has rapidly eroded democratic norms during his tenure and is actively working to undermine the election.

www.businessinsider.com

Read the wapo article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/

Or better yet, read the actual Constitution itself, rather than reading the absurd lies that filthy, dishonest left wrong-wing “journalists” write about it.

 

[Ben Thomson]

Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.

www.theatlantic.com

The Trump administration is using the last weeks of the campaign to soften up the country for a repudiation of democracy itself. This project will take some doing. Getting rid of checks on presidential power in the form of inspectors general, congressional committees, special counsels, and nonpartisan judges might drive pundits and experts crazy, but such moves don’t hit home for many citizens. The post-Watergate norms established to preserve the Justice Department’s integrity are not widely understood. But voting is something else. Your vote is your most tangible connection to the idea of democratic government. It’s the only form of political power most Americans possess. It’s proof that government of, by, and for the people hasn’t yet perished from the Earth. Your vote is personal. For a president to throw it out would be an audacious undertaking.

Trump keeps promising to try. Every time he talks about “massive fraud” and sending the election to a Supreme Court with a conservative majority, he’s preparing you to have your vote taken away—to make that shocking prospect a little more normal, even inevitable. Each new controversy, each norm broken, each authoritarian pose makes Trump’s intention to nullify the election results clear.

Trump dislikes our best of allies and loves the dictators. It is clear as hell.

If any of you haven't voted yet please do not vote for the incumbent when you do.

Really? So what has Trump done to benefit Kim Jong Un? Or the Chinese President Xi? Or Putin? Or Raul Castro? Or the president of Iran, Venezuela, or any other dictatorship?

What has he given them? Money? Weapons? What?

As for Kim Jung Un..he gave him world cred..by flying over there and kissing his ass.

 

[okfine]

"The Utah Republican's tweets on the matter are linked to a long history of Republicans rejecting the notion that the US political system is a democracy. The GOP's objection to calling the US a democracy is tied to the fact Republicans have reason to fear a system in which a majority of Americans have more say. The Republican party's platform is increasingly at odds with the perspectives of most voters on an array of issues."

A GOP senator said 'rank democracy' is bad for America at a time when Trump is behaving like an authoritarian

The GOP senator is an ally of a president who has rapidly eroded democratic norms during his tenure and is actively working to undermine the election.

www.businessinsider.com

Read the wapo article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/

Or better yet, read the actual Constitution itself, rather than reading the absurd lies that filthy, dishonest left wrong-wing “journalists” write about it.

Constitution. Ok. Representative Democracies, which we are, have one. What's new?

 

[BrokeLoser]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

 

[okfine]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

My friend wears a red CNN hat and you should see the Trumptards faces when we go to the range. Fn priceless.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Or better yet, read the actual Constitution itself, rather than reading the absurd lies that filthy, dishonest left wrong-wing “journalists” write about it.

Constitution. Ok. Representative Democracies, which we are, have one. What's new?

That's not what the Constitution says. The Constitution absolutely refutes nearly everything that you and the other LIbtARds have said in this thread.

As has been pointed out already, no form of the word “democracy” is anywhere to be found in the Constitution, nor anything to suggest that that is the sort of government that we are to have; but the word “Republican” is in there, as an explicit statement of what kind of government we are to have.

See Article IV, Section 4.

 

[BrokeLoser]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

My friend wears a red CNN hat and you should see the Trumptards faces when we go to the range. Fn priceless.

He doesn’t get his ****** ass kicked?

 

[okfine]

We fear that the left seeks an end to democracy and free speech....Trump supporters are afraid to put Trump stickers on their cars.....so yes we fear the loss of freedom....and I'll tell you libs one thing you don't want to happen...and that is to cause us to fear you....if that happens you are done.....

I won't put a Trump sticker on my car because I want to stay out of prison and off death row.

I have a Trump/Pence sticker on my truck, I wear MAGA gear of some kind almost daily...I enjoy agitating the Tards in LA with my ensemble. The look on the faces of a Starbucks full of Tards is priceless.

My friend wears a red CNN hat and you should see the Trumptards faces when we go to the range. Fn priceless.

He doesn’t get his ****** ass kicked?

You should see their faces after thinking it was a MAGAhat? Priceless as hell.