Basically, wokeism is the search for the current incarnation of the New Soviet Person.
Posted on 06/17/2024 4:19:53 AM PDT by Sam77
There's an old story that Benjamin Franklin was approached after exiting the Constitutional Convention, and he was asked what sort of a government they had created. His response was, "A republic, if you can keep it."
Virtually everyone who learned anything from their middle school/junior high school government class learned that we are a Constitutional Republic, although now I wonder if everyone is actually taught this anymore.
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” I wonder if everyone is actually taught this anymore.”
Not since the Pledge of Allegiance has been silenced in schools so students don’t learn “and to the Republic for which it stands”.
Look at a dollar bill
We are a constitutional republic, and a representative democracy. The founders knew that direct democracies are unstable and given to transitory whims, fashions, and passions. The Constitution is meant as a buffer.
If a majority of the people decided they wanted to enslave the other, IDK, say 16%, would “democracy” mean they were entitled to do so? What if the Supreme Court said that such a law were permitted by emanations and penumbrae in the 13th Amendment, these special, wicked-smaht, justices having superman like x-ray vision, not available to mere subjects of the realm?
The framers were all much brighter than any modern politician or journalist. They absolutely understood the full meaning of democracy and they took explicit steps to avoid implementing one. They deliberately avoided using the word democracy in any of the founding documents. Those who claim a democracy is a republic can be dismissed as uninformed nitwits.
we need a national mandate of age-appropriate civics classes starting in kindergarten and ending in the senior year of high school.
No. Not just no, hell no. We need to close public schools and allow parents decide. Vouchers that can be redeemed in any school that is certified to teach kids to read and write and do sums. (Maybe a computer literacy requirement?)
They can teach Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, wickenism, Howard Zinn civics or Pat Buchanan. I do not care, as long as the product is numerate and literate. Kids will shed indoctrination if taught to think for themselves.
Our Founding Fathers saw what happens in a “Democracy” in France, post-revolution.
They wanted to shield us from a “Mobocracy”!
The Left believes there is no limit to what humans can do.
The Left believes they shape human nature to what they want.
It is a principal false assumption about reality.
The New Deal and judicial activism by its resultant "enlighted*" judges have eroded our freedoms and nurtured the Levithan that the founders feared.
Peter Stzrok and Merrick Garland are Leviathan's shock troops and Gauleiters.
*Enlighted is old school for "woke". Deutschland Erwacht! is their precedent and guidebook.
Basically, wokeism is the search for the current incarnation of the New Soviet Person.
Liberals don’t keep using Democracy be cause they know it is a Republic.
Read Federalist 68.
Our Electoral College has a noble purpose that has nothing to do with spreading out votes to rural areas.
It is a shame that Prager puts out this nonsense.
BTTT
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
If we could ask Socrates, i am sure he would testify to how much a democracy sucks. Nothing good ever comes from democrat, democratic, democracy.
“Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.”
A constitutional republic has a constitution that says it is not the sheep and the sheep have a machine gun to ensure it is not them.
Not since the Pledge of Allegiance has been silenced in schools.
Indeed the democrat party can not exist without an ignorant society.
Scalia stated re Obergefell v. Hodges, that the 5-4 majority's Equal Protection analysis was “quite frankly, difficult to follow" and “fails to provide even a single sentence explaining how the Equal Protection Clause supplies independent weight for its position." " The ruling was nothing more than a "naked judicial claim to legislative — indeed, super-legislative — power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government." "A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy." - http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
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