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To: Madame de Winter
A viable way for the country to work is to come to a consensus, or worst yet, a compromise. Let the checks and balances work so that all American can live with the least odius form of government...

Consensus and compromise to the "democrat" leaders means bending over and taking whatever they say. It means total and complete capitulation to their agenda. No thanks.

Sorry to offend your sensibilities, but what seems to be the problem here is semantics.

If you want to get wrapped up around the axle over semantics, that's fine with me. But I think there was a very good reason (as expounded in the continental congress debates) that the founding fathers specifically eschewed the use of the word "democracy" in our founding documents. If you want to equate the representative republican form of government and "For the people, of the people, and by the people" to mean "democracy" that is your prerogative, but many of us will continue to recognize the distinction and prefer a republic over a democracy.

To quote Jim, "I see the Democrat Party as domestic enemy number one of the Constitution and therefor it is my sworn enemy. ... I propose doing so by destroying enemy number one of the Constitution, the corrupt socialist Democrat Party."

I'll not try to put words in Jim's mouth, but I guess he is proposing not the elimination of the Democrat Party so that only the GOP remains, but rather the destruction of the far left leadership of the democrat party through activism at the polls and in educating the voters of its true agenda. If successful, the GOP would become dominant, but the democrat party would have to move back toward the center and return to American principles in order to maintain a two-party system, or be replaced by a new "third" party that would become the "second" party by default. After all, that's how the Republican Party came into being in the first place.

1,078 posted on 10/21/2003 12:29:03 PM PDT by VRWCmember (We apologise for the fault in the taglines. Those responsible have been sacked.)
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To: VRWCmember
Consensus and compromise, are part of checks and balances. There is no capitualation in compromise. When you argue whith your spouse or family member do you try and destroy their position? Or do listen and reach an understanding? Being right and winning can sometimes be a pyrrhic victory (back to the Romans).

We are a republic and a democracy! And yes it is hair-splitting semantics.Way back when it might not have started out that way. Land owners, slaves and women can vote now. Universal sufferage and all that.

Want to go back to like it was before?

I always find it interesting the the names people use when posting: Madame de Winter serves the Cardinal, whom do you serve???
1,096 posted on 10/21/2003 2:20:25 PM PDT by Madame de Winter
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