Posted on 02/04/2018 1:17:44 PM PST by huckfillary
ha!
yes, the 1860’s and 70’s were not friendly to the Republic our Founders gave us
Maybe it’s because we are less and less a Republic.
To cite just one instance of what got us here, thank President GW Bush. The Commerce Clause, in Gonzales v Raisch, was interpreted to mean the federal government can regulate, as dissenting Justice Thomas put it, everything down to church suppers.
The enumerated powers clause in the Constitution was the tent pole that kept the canvas of federal governance from descending onto the people in the stands. It’s been missing in action since maybe the Civil War. But the Commerce Clause’s demise blew down the last remaining barrier to federal power.
If you think of a dirigible with all its inner compartments, that’s what we’ve lost. The US is one big blimp. If I had to give it a name, I’d go with nation-state.
Or Jindal or Rubio or Haley or George P. Bush.
The last one is likely the real reason the GOP wanted the protections of the natural born citizen clause eliminated.
In my humble opinion there is nothing magical about a republic: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; The People’s Republic of China; The Islamic Republic of Iran; The Republic of Cuba.
On the other hand: “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’—Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form-of-government/
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”—Ronald Reagan
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_387305
The structure of American government is republican. The process of American government is via representative democracy (voting).
Secular humanist libtards are for democratic equality and economic democracy. This is the utopia which evolution is inevitably leading. Getting rid of republic and using democracy instead is part of their thought control.
Well, when did our pubic school teachers stop doing the Pledge of Allegiance regularly?
“...and to the republic for which it stands.”
Calling America a democracy is right there with “separation of church and state”, a lie.
Lawyers are public enemy #1, pubic school teachers are #2.
Worry not. It’s still a Republic. For now.
You’ll note that the people who do this don’t call it “a democracy” or “the democracy”, they always call it “OUR democracy”.
Because that’s how they see it. Republic is gone, “our democracy” has replaced it, and the emphasis is on OUR, as in NOT YOUR.
All true, but I think the common usage issue is mostly a word association ploy that is aimed at ignorant, intellectually lazy voters. Of course the Democrats, politicians and voters alike, are going to use the word "democracy"; it makes the Democrats sound like the party that should naturally be in power. They eschew the use of the word "republic" because it suggests that the Republican Party has a right to exist, after all.
It is a deception on a scale that would make Goebbels smile in admiration, and it is probably more effective than we would dare to estimate.
Thank you for the Jubilee link.
You are spot on. I was hoping that someone had already mentioned that and was going to so if no one else had. Just one more of the ruinous ideas to come out of the Wilson administration. It’s sad that a hundred years later, no one alive remembers why it was a part of the founding document or why it was changed (a hint: Progressives).
Long gone!
Most likely forever! (Unless the tree gets watered again)
Our education system is partly to blame. It is easy to ‘feel’ how a majority rule is best for all, but unless you understand the real meaning of ‘democracy’ you don’t understand how a ‘democracy’ can vote into existence SLAVERY. (majority rules, right?)
The concept of a Republic recognizes the smallest minority, that being the individual. Individual civil and human rights, not given by the majority or government, but by God, as a presumption to base all other government on and limit it with.
With a Republic, you don’t have to worry about black rights, gay rights, hispanic rights, because the rights of the individual trump ALL other principles, protecting everyone, their rights, property and opportunities,,, but the ‘feelings’ of the socialist movement are the intellectually lazy way too many follow today.
Everyone should listen/read Mark Levin’s deconstruction of Hegel from last week.
Not me.
The closest I come is using the "democratic" party label.
They hate it!
Heh heh...
Very well said Wildbill.
There has been a concerted effort to alter the viewpoint of younger generations into believing that this country isn’t a Republic, but is, instead, a democracy.
Looking at the butt-hurt “safe-space” hoodlums out there, they’ve achieved something of a victory.
The globalists aim to get rid of our constitution. Hellary would have advanced that goal. Those who cheer for a constitutional convention are the stupidest people (mostly liberal-tarians, ofcourse) on earth. It’s a deep state set up.
The only way to eliminate poverty is what communism advocates, but does not attain, by keeping everyone at the same asset level. The problem with that is it destroys the incentive to perform, and the free-riders will dominate until no one has anything. That’s just human nature.
Rather than deny human nature, Marxists opt to change the nature of humans, achieving Utopia. That’s where Soviet Man comes in. He’s had his hard drive reformatted and loaded with Utopian software. Except the Soviets had sixty years of indoctrination without achieving Soviet Man.
They would have been better advised to use a little ju-jitsu and use man’s desire to get stuff (Greed is Good or at least can be harnessed.) to let him make money and take a little of it for governance. But of course, that is capitalism, which didn’t fit Marx’s narrative. Why we teach his idiocy in college illustrates the desire for Utopia by those to whom history is a blank slate and their ever-recycled conceit, “This time it’s different.”
America changed right after the Civil War from saying “The United States are” to “The United States is.” The shift from can-do to “where’s mine?” has been lightning fast yet tectonic in nature.
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