Posted on 10/22/2020 9:37:25 AM PDT by Heartlander
LOL, they barely teach reading, writing, and arithmetic let alone history and civics.
The Founding Fathers had utter contempt for democracy. James Madison, principle author of the Constitution, wrote this in Federalist Paper No. 10, “...there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.”
He went on: “Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.”
At the Convention, Virginia Gov. Edmund Randolph said that “in tracing these evils to their origin, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.” John Adams wrote: “Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.”
And Alexander Hamilton said: “We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is found not in the extremes of democracy but in moderate governments. ... If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.”
DB (Sorry for the lengthy personal intro. Just wanted all of us to understand a point the left does not want widely known.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-crisis-bill-of-rights-protects-freedoms/
You had to add an adjective to qualify your position? Sorry,I don’t wrestle pigs either.
In fact contemporary to them the Founding Fathers had the excesses of Rhode Island as an example of too much democracy.
“...there are many accepted meanings of the word “democracy”. And one of them refers to the type of representative government the United States has.”
And it is patently false.
We are a constitutional republic (guaranteed to all states by our COTUS) national government with democratically elected representatives only. States have some positions and ballot items that go to popular vote (which Democrats frequently get a judge to overturn; so they actually don’t like democracy).
Accepted meaning by some (like 32 genders, or gay, or marriage), but they are ignorant of truth.
It IS unfortunate, and it is what it is because of unstopped propaganda in our schools and MSM.
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POLITICAL SYSTEMS 101: Basic Forms of Government Explained (10 worthwhile minutes):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEuZrvNYg0
I always hate it when anyone, especially politicians claim they want to protect “our democracy”. Ignorant tools.
Yup. The word, “democracy” is not found in the US Constitution nor the Declaration.
Those that say “our democracy” and/or “American democracy” out themselves as either ignorant, or enemies of our Founders’ republic.
Democrats say it because it’s their (false) political party name. “Our republic” grinds D’rats, as it reminds people of “Republican”.
This term “ democracy” has a long history of being very sloppily used !
>>>But to insist that the United States is not a democracy, well that’s a bit too Karen-like for me<<<
You may need to lean over a little more. #;^)
“This term “ democracy” has a long history of being very sloppily used !”
Kind of like the term “woman” nowadays. Paging Kaitlyn Jenner...
The thing Dinesh D’Souza pointed out is that whenever leftists assert that “America” failed in some way in history, it is always more accurate to say that the Democrat Party opposed doing the right thing.Starting with the Trail of Tears, the Civil War . . .
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We are a democratic Republic - not - a pure democracy.
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