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God save democracy from its so-called defenders
World Net Daily ^ | Sept 2, 2025 | Don Feder

Posted on 09/04/2025 11:19:42 AM PDT by fwdude

Louis XIV declared, "I am the state." The motto of today's Democratic Party should be "Democracy is us." Supporting anything we oppose is a threat to democracy. On the other hand, opposing anything we support is anti-democratic.

According to democracy's self-appointed champions, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deportation of criminal aliens, President Trump's campaign against urban crime, congressional districts that reflect reality, ballot ID laws, cutting the bureaucracy, opposition to racial quotas and protecting women's sports and privacy all are existential threats to democracy.

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"The Democratic Party is the little boy who cried wolf because the wolf is all he has."
1 posted on 09/04/2025 11:19:42 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Democrat democracy a government ruled by a small, elite group.

Stage prop brain numb Biden was elected huh. /s


2 posted on 09/04/2025 11:38:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.

In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.

The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. 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. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.

Dan Smoot Report, 1966
How about disposing of democracy altogether and bringing back constitutional republicanism?
3 posted on 09/04/2025 11:40:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I am of the opinion that a republican form of government is the best way to go, but damn, is it ever messy.
4 posted on 09/04/2025 11:42:31 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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“”I am of the opinion that a republican form of government is the best way to go, but damn, is it ever messy.””

It’s no accident or mistake that these words were spoken...

“A republic. If you can keep it.”

And nobody, not even the founders, ever said that it would be easy. Nothing worth having or keeping comes easy. Too many Americans have become apathetic, complacent and downright lazy, in addition to having their heads inextricably, apparently, stuck in the sand (or some place even danker). If we want to ‘keep it’, it’s going to take some actual work, some unpleasant action and quite possibly...

even some bloodshed, upon which this country was founded. The concept seems abhorent to some, but the reality is.... that is exactly what will probably be required to ‘keep’ this republic.

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Context:

We’re all familiar with the story behind this article’s headline. It was the last day of the Constitutional Convention, Sept. 18, 1787, when a prominent Philadelphia socialite, Elizabeth Willing Powel, confronted Benjamin Franklin outside of Independence Hall and asked him, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy”?

Franklin was overheard replying, “A republic, ma’am. If you can keep it.”

https://federalobserver.com/2025/07/19/a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it-the-american-experiment-has-never-been-in-greater-danger/


5 posted on 09/04/2025 12:00:59 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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