Republicans are turning themselves into the enemies of republicanism

[Dante]

John Adams Warned Us: A Republic Without Virtue Cannot Survive​

America’s obsession with wealth risks hollowing out the foundation of its republic.​

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Republicans are turning themselves into the enemies of republicanism​

I know some people will ask "republicanism?" So, for simplicity we'll go with an AI definition:


AI Overview:
Republicanism is a political ideology centered on the belief that a state should be governed by the people's elected representatives, not by a monarch or ruling elite.

The core of republicanism is the concept of res publica, the Latin term for "public thing" or "commonwealth," emphasizing that the government and its laws serve the common good of all citizens.

Core principles

• Civic virtue: This involves citizens' active, honest, and selfless participation in public affairs to promote the common good. Early thinkers believed a republic's survival depended on a virtuous citizenry.
• Popular sovereignty: The authority of the government is derived from the consent of the people, who are the ultimate source of all power. All citizens are considered capable of self-rule.
• Rule of law: A republic is an "empire of laws, not of men," where a mixed constitution, checks and balances, and an independent judiciary limit governmental power and protect against tyranny and corruption.
• Freedom from domination: A key aspect of republican liberty is freedom from arbitrary power or the private will of a master. Instead, citizens are subject only to laws established for the common good.
• Rejection of hereditary rule: Republicanism fundamentally opposes monarchy and any form of inherited political power.

Please, take this thread seriously if you care about democracy and republicanism and how they have been strung together in the USA.
Read the AI "thingie" above. How does the GOP or the GOP President's values and words and actions align with that, if at all.

And let us not leave out the American people as a cultural entity, obsessed with wealth.





Being a "Yuge" fan of many of John Adams' ideas, thoughts, writings I have to say I was seriously appalled back in 2016 when the GOP selected djt to be it's standard bearer -- even after the Billy Bush tape and more.

John Adams understood a truth that feels even sharper today: a republic cannot endure without virtue. Writing to Mercy Otis Warren in April 1776, he warned that “public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without [private virtue], and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.” For Adams, liberty would not be preserved by clever constitutions alone. It depended on citizens who could restrain their selfish impulses for the sake of the common good.



John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 April 1776

they are killing republicanism

 

[The Irish Ram]

Republicans are scrambling to downplay just how much enjoyment President Donald Trump is evidently extracting from preparations to fire federal workers by the thousands amid the government shutdown

No, we aren't scrambling, we are dancing. You don't often get a president that actually keeps his campaign promises. He ran on smaller government and draining the swamp. Seems there are a whole bunch of needless people living off of us.
They should go get jobs that we don't have to pay them for...

 

[Stryder50]

AI tech is amazing. To paraphrase Richard Dawkins "Don't pretend to be more profound than you really are."

I would use the example of the use of AI vs use of a library -- and suggest it's about real vs fake knowledge (not fake "intelligence).

But the AI tech is amazing, quite capable of giving answers to queries. But is it really knowledgeable or intelligent? That's not relevant here. Not at all.

Your pathetic post is a sort of ad hominem fallacy

GIGO !

 

[Stryder50]

John Adams Warned Us: A Republic Without Virtue Cannot Survive​

America’s obsession with wealth risks hollowing out the foundation of its republic.​

​

Republicans are turning themselves into the enemies of republicanism​

I know some people will ask "republicanism?" So, for simplicity we'll go with an AI definition:


AI Overview:
Republicanism is a political ideology centered on the belief that a state should be governed by the people's elected representatives, not by a monarch or ruling elite.

The core of republicanism is the concept of res publica, the Latin term for "public thing" or "commonwealth," emphasizing that the government and its laws serve the common good of all citizens.

Core principles

• Civic virtue: This involves citizens' active, honest, and selfless participation in public affairs to promote the common good. Early thinkers believed a republic's survival depended on a virtuous citizenry.
• Popular sovereignty: The authority of the government is derived from the consent of the people, who are the ultimate source of all power. All citizens are considered capable of self-rule.
• Rule of law: A republic is an "empire of laws, not of men," where a mixed constitution, checks and balances, and an independent judiciary limit governmental power and protect against tyranny and corruption.
• Freedom from domination: A key aspect of republican liberty is freedom from arbitrary power or the private will of a master. Instead, citizens are subject only to laws established for the common good.
• Rejection of hereditary rule: Republicanism fundamentally opposes monarchy and any form of inherited political power.

Please, take this thread seriously if you care about democracy and republicanism and how they have been strung together in the USA.
Read the AI "thingie" above. How does the GOP or the GOP President's values and words and actions align with that, if at all.

And let us not leave out the American people as a cultural entity, obsessed with wealth.





Being a "Yuge" fan of many of John Adams' ideas, thoughts, writings I have to say I was seriously appalled back in 2016 when the GOP selected djt to be it's standard bearer -- even after the Billy Bush tape and more.

John Adams understood a truth that feels even sharper today: a republic cannot endure without virtue. Writing to Mercy Otis Warren in April 1776, he warned that “public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without [private virtue], and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.” For Adams, liberty would not be preserved by clever constitutions alone. It depended on citizens who could restrain their selfish impulses for the sake of the common good.



John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 April 1776