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'Democracy' Has a Peculiar Aftertaste
Gatestone Institute ^ | 12 Apr 2024 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 04/13/2024 8:57:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan

- If you live in a "democracy" where everyone routinely votes to censor and imprison one another, you still live in a police state.

- The word "democracy" appears to have become polite shorthand for insisting that an insular minority in control of the American government always knows what is best for the vast, unrepresented majority. Even worse, it sometimes seems nothing more than a convenient disguise for camouflaging abuses of power.

The American system of government is a federation of sovereign states that retain inherent powers not specifically delegated to the national government. It is a republic that separates discrete powers among coequal and competing branches of government — namely the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. It is a representative democracy that empowers the people to vote into office those who presumably will best serve their interests. Most importantly, it is a constitutional system that severely limits government's authority and proscribes government agents from infringing upon freedoms retained by the people.

Just to be indisputably clear that the government is forbidden from rewriting its own delegated powers in such a way that they violate an American's God-given liberties, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution — the Bill of Rights — act as a redundancy measure and explicit warning to state actors not to infringe upon or water down the rights delineated there.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: democracy; mobrule

1 posted on 04/13/2024 8:57:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Mostly ignored when convenient by liberal democrat communists....


2 posted on 04/13/2024 9:19:43 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Rummyfan

These herds of freeloading, illegal alien “refugees” are all coming from “democrazies”.


3 posted on 04/13/2024 9:27:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: Rummyfan

Nicely written article.

I wish everyone would undersand this and that our government actually ran the way it is supposed to.

As the writer points out at the end, there are some very alarming signs.

Our republic is NOT healthy.


4 posted on 04/13/2024 9:32:26 AM PDT by Red6
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To: JBW1949

Pure democracy is two foxes and one chicken voting on what to have for lunch


5 posted on 04/13/2024 9:36:31 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Rummyfan

Funny how those ignorant, racist, white supremacy founding fathers found a way around the shortcomings of a pure democracy. Funny how our ‘woke folk’ have not the intelligence, education, or morality to know how good they have it. However, sooner or later they’re going to push past the tipping point and ...well...it’ll be interesting.


6 posted on 04/13/2024 9:50:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: All
Please take a few minutes and watch this: "The American Form of Government"

It is simply informative, narrated by "Mr. Mayor", and was published 16 years ago.

To me, it is a classic. Please watch. You'll want to bookmark it.

7 posted on 04/13/2024 10:28:07 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: Rummyfan

“Democracy” is nothing short of MOB RULE. Our Founding Fathers understood this and solved the problem (they hoped) with the Electoral College.
Democrats have found a way to mob rule Electoral College through machines with manipulated software and flooding the voting roles with illegals and dead people.


8 posted on 04/13/2024 2:52:38 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (XX = Female XY = Male. No surgery can change that.)
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