How many times does Trump get to falsely claim we’re a democracy before someone publicly corrects him that the USA is a republic?
Why doesn’t Cruz mock him for this ignorance about our system of government?
We don't need a representative republic. We need a direct democracy! Let the people rule!
Who needs a stupid constitutional system when we have Twitter to let us know what the People want!
That's what will make America Great Again!
How many times are freepers going to trot out the false claim that we aren’t a democracy because we’re a republic? A republic is a non-monarchy and our particular non-monarchial form of government is a constitutional republic and a representative democracy.
Representative Republic to be precise. There is far more to the meaning of that than you seem willing to admit. We The People decide who will be our representatives in the Republic. The decisions on who is supposed to be done democratically by voting.
BTW, It is the Democrat Party, not the Democratic Party.
Because Cruz is the establishment.
How many times does Trump get to falsely claim we’re a democracy before someone publicly corrects him that the USA is a republic?
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Yes, but Republic does not equate to corrupt politics.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic
Is illuminating. I particularly like the part about elected representatives and officials being responsible for exercising the power given to them by voters (sound democratic to you?).
Specifically the USA is a Constitutional Republic with the ultimate power derived from the voters. Until recently, I believe this was completely true. But with states like Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, etc. where the common voters were deemed unnecessary, that kinda takes out the intended rights of the voter.
“the USA is a republic”
It’s a democratic republic. Our representatives are supposed to represent US, THE VOTERS.
“The Framers founded a republic because they recognized that mob rule could be just as great a threat to liberty as the rule of a king. Representation, Madison explains in Federalists 63, is “sometimes necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions.” America’s constitutional framework thereby seeks to protect the people from the dangers of unchecked popular democracy. The people’s representatives, of course, remain ultimately accountable to the people who can vote them out of office as they see fit.
“In everyday speech, people praise democracy as the most just form of government. What they mean by “democracy” is a regime in which free elections regularly take place and a government that protects the rights of all. Understood this way, America is a democracy, or to be more precise, a democratic republic.”
(www.heritage.org)
Maybe his good friend “Speaker of the Senate” Mitch McConnell will coach him on this as a thank you for his support in the primary.
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Trump KNOWS we live in a Republic but he also knows, if asked, most people would agree we live in a democracy.
>Why doesn’t Cruz mock him for this ignorance about our system of government?
Mock? Why, I’ve heard (this past Friday?) a soundbite with him stating the same!
I wouldn’t cast aspirations on him of being ‘ignorant’ on the point, but I do have to wonder if it’s a ‘red meat’ (Republic) statement for the base vs. another for the masses (Democracy).
I can’t give ‘Mr. Constitutional’ the benefit of the doubt re: ‘slip of the tongue’; but if it is as I suspect above, that’s quite a few pegs DOWN in my book.
Most American have a pretty blurry picture of the democracy vs. republic question.
Saying we are a democracy is obviously oversimplified, but Trump's point is that party bosses making decisions about delegate selection is anti-democratic, and democratically selecting candidates is not what the founders feared when they warned against democracy.
The founders were worried about arbitrary law, not trying to foil the will of the People in their choice of candidates.
Thus, the bleating from the "we're a republic crowd" is disingenuous at best, because the Fouinders woiuld clearly be appalled at the spirit of faction (party) which has come to dominate modern politics.
So let's be honest and agree that this whole party boss bullshit is both anti-democratic AND anti-republican...