I’m going to post this on AOC, Schumer, Pelosis twitter accounts. Trump is a “threat to democracy”? GOOD!
Would someone be kind enough to post screen shot or actual link in instagram for those of us who don’t use it?
Thanks
The keyword isn’t Democracy. The key word of OUR. The left doesn’t believe in Democracy. It’s just a word to them. They believe in their utopian leftist collective, hence the entire focus is on the work OUR.
Those of us who disagree with their twisted leftist ideology are not part of OUR.
Bfl
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote”.
This is great!!!
Our founding documents don't mention "democracy", but obviously they attach great importance to the role of the people (again that's what demos means). The Constitution starts with the words "We the People..." "People" could hardly be more prominent that. And, much later, in America's most famous speech Lincoln spoke (with some exaggeration) of "government of the people, by the people, for the people", saying "people" three times.
It's true, though, that the Founders didn't want a tyranny of the majority, which is possible with a democracy. So what kind of government did they found? I think the key can be seen in this line from the Declaration of Independence -- "That to secure these rights (the natural born rights of human beings), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." Both individual rights and the consent of the people (the majority) matter. What was established was a representative democracy in the form of a constitutional federal republic. The people do rule but with restrictions on majority power to protect individual and regional rights (large state powers in the Union had to be limited somewhat, so that the small states would agree to join).
It's not an either/or situation. We're both a democracy and a republic. We're one particular kind of the many varieties of democracies and republics (most of them tyrannies) -- one that rules with the consent of the people but with protections for individual and regional rights.
The difference is "consent of the governed."
In a true democracy, everyone is the government. In a constitutional republic, a smaller contingent represents the whole by consent of the rest of the people.
In the United States today, the Democrat party is shutting down the government with the consent of nobody except a radical minority base of their party.
-PJ
If monarchies like the UK, Sweden, Holland, and Spain are “democracies” it stands to reason that we are one as well and we have been for a while. Granted, we do have a constitution, but we do have a lot in common with those countries. We aren’t a pure, direct democracy, but they aren’t either. Call us a “democratic republic” or a “republic” if you like, but that doesn’t change anything.
The problem for all Western “democracies” now is that it becomes possible for elites to remain in power forever by pitting groups against each other and by rigging the system so that they are never called to account for their mistakes.
Republicanism, Constitutionalism and Democracy ARE NOT entirely mutually exclusive.