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To: niteowl77

“These days, “democracy” is the last refuge of a scoundrel”
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“Democracy”. What’s up with everybody and their cousins continually calling our constitutional republic a democracy? It’s been going on for a while but has really ramped up since Trump took office. This really wads my shorts.

A subliminal tactic to redefine the country?


190 posted on 05/04/2019 6:33:06 AM PDT by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Roberts)
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To: EMI_Guy

“Democracy” is now just another amorphous concept, but one that nobody is allowed to criticize.


199 posted on 05/04/2019 6:53:15 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: EMI_Guy; niteowl77

“These days, “democracy” is the last refuge of a scoundrel”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“Democracy”. What’s up with everybody and their cousins continually calling our constitutional republic a democracy? It’s been going on for a while but has really ramped up since Trump took office. This really wads my shorts.

A subliminal tactic to redefine the country?


What they really mean is “mobocracy”. They know they are fewer so they want to overthrow the Constitutional principles.


206 posted on 05/04/2019 7:03:57 AM PDT by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations)
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To: EMI_Guy
What wads my shorts are the pedants who leap to correct anyone calling the US a democracy. Republic is downstream from democracy. It is a form of it.

Arguing a republic is sui generis is like correcting someone who calls his dog a mammal.

342 posted on 05/04/2019 6:32:24 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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