>> “Gingrich has in the past advocated a union of democracies. That’s all.” <<
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We’re NOT a democracy!
We need no union with Satan and his democracies.
NATO is a global arm of genocide. It is the active core of the war against the gospel of Jesus Christ. They supported Islamic terror in the Balkans, and literally created and armed Alqaeda in that war.
Newt is not a conservative. He’s done nothing conservative in his entire career. He is statist in all his ways.
The media have so far given Newt a complete pass, and they will be very happy to have Newt as the GOP Trojan Horse; he would be so easy to beat.
Actually we are. We are a democratic republic which means that we are both a democracy and a republic. The Constitution begins with the phrase WE THE PEOPLE.
By the terms of the Constitution itself, WE are a democracy. While it is wrong to call the US a democracy to the exclusion of calling it a Republic, it is equally wrong to call the US a Republic without noting that it is also a democracy in that it is a government OF THE PEOPLE.
There is no pure democracy on earth and there never has been one with more than about a dozen voting members.
We’re not a democracy is one of those kind of answers that ignores as much as it reveals.
Sure we are. We are a democratic republic.
We have a virtually direct election of the president of the USA, with a supposed body of electors bound by law to vote as directed by the popular vote in their various states.
You might not like the 17th amendment, but it IS a direct election of a representative. We are, therefore, a representative democracy, a type of republic.
This is attested to by the 13th 14th and 19th amendments that extend the vote to every citizen.
I have worked with those NATO troops during the old cold war, and they were our allies in that showdown with the Soviets.