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In retrospect, I don't know what made me believe this would be the place to discuss a philosophical question about whether the participation of the masses makes democracy stronger or weaker. This is a place for acrimony, gratuitous insults, childish videos, and unsubstantiated claims.When there are just no words to describe that level of political retardation.
Mark Twain was a genius.In retrospect, I don't know what made me believe this would be the place to discuss a philosophical question about whether the participation of the masses makes democracy stronger or weaker. This is a place for acrimony, gratuitous insults, childish videos, and unsubstantiated claims.
I always love when democrats pretend to care about our country and democracy while talking about taking power away from voters and states and handing everything over to the federal government.
Did you miss that the claim you’re making was a trope first spewed by the John Birch Society?The US is not, nor has it ever been a "democracy."
It was at one time a constitutional republic, but now it's just a republic with a lot of bananas.
I suggest all you sniveling ignoramuses read this:The US is not, nor has it ever been a "democracy."
Did you miss that the claim you’re making was a trope first spewed by the John Birch Society?
“Republic” as In representative democracyBenjamin Franklin warned.
In this form of government, the power is held by the people and elected representatives are required to help all people, not just a few. To further guard against tyranny, our Founders also established three coequal branches of government.
“A republic, if you can keep it,”
Well they were… all bad.I like the JBS. Any organization that hates communists like yourself, can't be all that bad.
We’ll they were… all bad.
See post #22.They're phonies.
All that fake kabuki theater about how "patriotic" they are? I never bought it for a minute.
All they're doing is playing Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" rule #4: "Make the enemy live up to his own book of rules."
Anyone can see how blatantly phony the left-wing Democrats are.
I'd prefer to let you eat static.....But damn, I just can't resist the chance to poke fun at you people 'cause you take it so well.This is a place for acrimony, gratuitous insults, childish videos, and unsubstantiated claims.
Thanks for proving my point.
You would have to throw all democrats out to sea.The present debate about the independent state legislature theory—a disingenuous interpretation of constitutional clauses that would grant state legislatures tremendous power to defy state courts and even ignore the states’ popular votes in presidential elections—is in large part a question of how much power the demos should have in our democracy. Recent years have seen no shortage of similar democracy-limiting ideas, rulings, laws, and proposals, such as the Supreme Court’s 2013 Shelby County decision, which opened the door to unnecessarily restrictive voting laws, and 2019 Rucho decision, which made partisan gerrymandering nonjusticiable.
Consider also the longstanding trope that “the United States is a republic, not a democracy”—a truism that conservative politicians and writers, perhaps forgetting that it was once the slogan of the ultra-right John Birch Society and associated with opposition to civil rights, have for decades routinely deployed as if it were a decisive rebuttal to anyone who argues that perhaps a bit more power in our political system should be put in the hands of the people.
Based on this understanding, elected officials prop up the parts of our system of government that make it easier for them to obtain and hold onto power while also making it difficult for the people to hold them culpable for unprincipled or incongruous actions. Without sufficient accountability, legislative bodies can disregard the expressed democratic will whenever they deem the people unfit to decide for themselves.
Tilting Our Politics Back Toward Democracy - The Bulwark
What the old trope about the United States being “a republic, not a democracy” misses about the American system.www.thebulwark.com
This is a stunningly prescient concern for the damage entities like Faux can do to the public square.
I thought this was a fascinating piece. It's now up for discussion, which, I hope we can keep out of the gutter.
Can you come up with a post that doesn't demonstrate that you are entirely bereft of any introspection and/or insight into your own "character" (for lack of a better description)?Yes, you did. Care to make a point that is not so intentionally banal without the silly emoji?
