Posted on 11/22/2022 8:59:13 AM PST by Red Badger
I believe this is from the Dan Smoot Report from the 1960s:
VIDEO AT LINK...........
“The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty. In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic, and transforming it into a democracy. The foremost tactic of the subverters is subversion of “language” — by calling America a democracy, until people thoughtlessly accept the term, and use the term. Totalitarians have obscured the real meanings and principles of American government.” ~ Dan Smoot
Notice that Benjamin Franklin did NOT say “a democracy if you can keep it”. He said, famously, “a REPUBLIC if you can keep it“. Notice the song is NOT called “Battle Hymn of the Democracy”. It’s called “Battle Hymn of the REPUBLIC”.
Embarrassingly, many Republicans, even some good ones, fall into the trap of calling the United States a “democracy.” They should immediately stop.
Language matters and we should not allow the evil left to twist it without opposition.
https://youtu.be/VogzExP3qhI
The failure is with the voters who keep sending them there!
Most voters couldn’t tell you the difference between a republic and a democracy. They send politicians who will give them a turn at getting their snouts in the taxpayer trough!
It is because they want to anger the mob and use them to further their own interests.
I’d argue the dims do want a true democracy with the abolition of the EC.
Because they lie about everything.
GOOGLE Ann Landers column about the ‘isms’......Everyone should read THOSE.
In reality, however, they are arguing for a continuation of the oligarchy because they control the media, academia, corporate boardrooms, etc. They can use their experience in marketing to convince a majority of the electorate to vote for what benefits the oligarchy.
When the electorate fails to do so, they just rig the election to get the result they want.
But you didn't say that. You said:
A "majority" is only meaningful in the context of a Democracy, where all people vote, and the "majority" wins.
Thank you. I have been screaming about this for years. It’s too easy to call it a democracy because it sounds a lot like Democrat. A lot of people will confuse the two names and likely started the use of it until it got settled into people’s heads. Please correct anyone using that word. We are in fact a Constitutional Republic. We have come way too close to Democracy. If we can not get the thinking straight we will lose our Republic and America will fall exactly the same as Rome. Please every conservative bury the word democracy. Let us restore and protect our Republic.
“{DEMOCRACY is 3 wolves and 2 sheep deciding what’s for dinner!”
That’s a great comeback, every time someone says that word.
Reminds me of Project Insight from the Captain America movie The Winter Soldier (SHIELD, actually Hydra having a list of people who MIGHT present a problem in the future so they were going to use three heli-carriers to eliminate them now).
They also changed their party from “Democrat” to “Democratic” so there is that.
My grandfather just called them “CommieCrats”.
Some people say it’s a representative republic.
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