Posted on 09/07/2019 11:33:55 AM PDT by rktman
Semantic infiltration within the political realm is typically defined, in its various forms, as unknowingly adopting the terms used by an opponent in such a way as to undermines one's own argument.
With the help of their cronies in the mainstream media, leftists are exceptionally good at semantic infiltration. Take, for example, the words "illegal alien." The term is simple enough. When a citizen from a foreign country enters a country not of his origin, he is alien to that newly entered country because, by birth, he is not a citizen of it. When the individual has entered the new country in violation of that country's immigration laws, he can be properly termed an "illegal alien."
Throughout the late 1990s, in order to shift the emphasis away from the very real fact that Mexican nationals crossing the border into the United States were doing so illegally, the Left coined the disingenuous term "undocumented immigrants." The mainstream media, clearly understanding Nazi Germany's propaganda techniques used to influence public perception, began repeating the term "undocumented immigrant" relentlessly.
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Should have used a larger font apparently. :-)
Liberals: “Republic” = Republicans = old white guys, therefore bad.
“Democracy” = Democrats = diversity demographic = therefore wonderful.
Any suggestion that “republic” is a representative government of, by, & for the people who voted for their representatives gets a blank stare. Too complicated.
Bless his heart.
Seems as though he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. All he needs now is a good old shove.
Even The Stupid Party (GOP) refers to our Republic as a democracy. This proves again, why they are The Stupid Party. Politicians swear an oath to our Constitution but they never read it.
For example: “Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”—President Ronald Reagan
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_387305
Even if they started to call the US a Republic they'd just redefine the meaning of the word 'Republic' and keep moving.
Americans who don't want to lose their country, history and future, are already scheduled to be hanged literally or figuratively by The Powers That Shouldn't Be who have a laser focus on getting rid of Trump and making sure the little people never again allow an outsider to become president.
It's time for those who love America to realize that they're basically under a death sentence already and react the same way as Samuel Johnson who said, “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”.
JMHo
Was not!
Watching Sen Michael Bennett (D-CO) on CSpan now. He’s instructing the audience to vote out the Freedom Caucus and Mitch McConnell.
Sen Bennett is displaying totalitarian tendencies.
Not looking forward to Mob Rule.
... the truth and not facts....
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That they can even state this as a dichotomy is chilling.
I have found it as early as the mid 1800s.
Curious who started it too.
The USA grew up contemporaneously with the French Revolution. also devoted to democracy. It was in the air. Aristotle and Plato already foresaw the dangers.
He was wrong.
You nailed it. Passage of the 17th meant Senators could be bought. It was the death of the republic.
They just never quite got it: “...and to the republic for which it stands...”
Of course, our leftist schools stopped having our children recite the Pledge of Allegiance decades ago. I did it every day in K-6 in the 60’s.
Pubic school teachers — domestic enemy #2.
(Lawyers are domestic enemy #1.)
The second political party to be formed (by Jefferson and Madison) after the Federalist Party was the Democratic-Republican Party in the election of 1800.
The Democratic-Republicans grew out of the anti-federalist faction at the constitutional convention. They were also called just “The Republicans.”
Two historical eras of early American politics were labeled the eras of “Jeffersonian Democracy” and “Jacksonian Democracy.”
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/jeffersonian-democracy
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/jacksonian-democracy
And even that quote does not say ALL poor/tired should come here ... just those “yearning to be free”.
Socialists are opposed to freedom, particularly economic freedom, So 5hey are not welcome here, even according to that quote,
No Libs are reading American Thinker articles. lol.
Wrong or right, I doubt that any of our presidents has never referred to the U.S. as a democracy.
“The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That’s a big dream. It’s not always easy to achieve, but that’s the ideal. More than any country in history we’ve made gains toward a democracy that is enviable throughout the world. Dreams require perseverance if they are to be realized, and fortunately we’re a hard-working country and people. We are the luckiest people in history, just by the fact that we are Americans.”—Donald Trump
https://www.azquotes.com/author/14823-Donald_Trump/tag/democracy
Absolutely correct ... and to stop a “tyranny of the majority” being imposed by too much Democracy, our citizens may just need to be reminded of thIs one day via an Article V Convention oh States in which (gasp) Iowa gets the same one vote as California.
The founders foresaw the dangers of Democracy, and wisely crafted ways for sovereign states to be a check on that, including the Article V Constitutional rewrite which no federal legislator or judge can do anything to stop - unless they and the military all betray their oath and start a civil war, in which case we have the ultimate check against Democratic Tyranny via the 2A reminder of our God given right to armed self defense.
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