Posted on 09/10/2020 11:08:16 PM PDT by knighthawk
New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones on Monday denounced the idea of America being an “exceptional nation” and argued that the country’s founders “did not believe in democracy.”
Hannah-Jones, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the “1619 Project” made the comments during a talk for Mount Holyoke College’s Common Read Keynote event.
Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, who interviewed Hannah-Jones, said that the 1619 Project is unfairly portrayed as being “anti-American.”
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Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer Kijua Sanders-McMurtry,
When reality tops parody you know there is a big problem.
The simpleton is correct. They most certainly did believe in “democracy”. They thought it was a nightmare.
Damn voice to text. Did not... the founders wanted to avoid democracy like the plague.
The founders also hated voice to text.
Okay, I’m slow...I didn’t hear all of Rush, but I’m pretty sure he usually knows what he is talking about..
I’m not only slow, I don’t want to read that article... but we are a Republic... not a democracy... from there.. will you who have added please explain what you are commenting? please....
The founders hated the very idea of a democracy.
“Founding Fathers ‘did not believe in democracy;”
Good thing!! They were truly wise men.
She is a crazy wacko commie.
So she did get one thing right: the Founders did not believe in democracy. That’s why they established a federal republic that guaranteed that each state would have a republican form of government. It never was supposed to be a democracy, though of course the legislature and the executive were elected democratically.
It ain’t a democracy, it is a republic which is a representative style government, not a democracy which is mob rule.
In support of all of the comments here denegrating democracy, here is a quote from one of our founding fathers explaining the matter: Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ~ John Adams
That’s right. The Founders knew that mob rule (democracy) was a terrible thing. That’s why they gave us a constitutional republic and free speech. It protects even the stupid
“It ain’t a democracy, it is a republic which is a representative style government, not a democracy which is mob rule.”
It’s much more than just a representative republic.
A representative republic is little more than a democracy. The majority elects the representatives and the representatives can pass with a simple majority any law they want, so it’s mob rule once removed.
The real distinguishing and exceptional part of this country is that it is a CONSTITUTIONAL Republic.
It is the constitution that puts certain “rights” beyond the control of simple majority rule, be it representative or otherwise.
No word in the constitution can be changed by a simple majority vote, you need to go through a very arduous process at several levels with super majority to change any of it - the amendment process.
That puts all the bill of rights - free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, right to bear arms, and so on - outside the control of majority rule.
If we were just a republic without a constitution I doubt very any of those “rights” would still exist. Even with the constitution they’re still under attack!
...and to the republic for which it (the National Ensign) stands...
The founding fathers did not believe in mob rule and to this day it screws up the socialists and communists plans to take over our nation.
This guy is right on one hand and can go straight to hell ASAP.
They didn’t create a democracy, they created a republic.
Per Plato, Ciceri, Badtiat, Locke et el...
The founder of this project said the founders did not “believe in democracy” but the costernation lies within that statement. THe founders believed in democracy but they also believed that democracy was not the right form of government at the Federal level. John Adams is speaking to the Federal level form of government and it must be made that distinction to understand the context in which the Federalist Papers are written. Although the Federalist Papers do speak towards local levels of government the main theme is the Federal level of government. They, the Founders, believed in democracy but preferred the Federal level of this United States to be republic. As such Adams is giving reasons to why this nation’s government was chosen to be a republic. Not all the Founders agreed and not all of the Founders hated democracy as a form of government as the state level and local level governments are in a fashion a democracy form of government.
People have the idea that everyone votes and that is the very epitome of a democracy. They disregard what they are actually voting for. In addition, democracy is interspersed throughout United States history and even more recently the United States has stated as an official position that when it goes into other countries that it promotes democracy not a democratic republic. The United States is a combination of both democracy and a republic hence the United States is actually and technically a democratic republic. Not just a republic which would imply representation at all levels of government.
Re the Chief Diversity officer. Did she/he/it appropriate three ethnic/racial names to show that they are “diverse” in who they are?
Kijua? I “kid” “you” not. A cousin to Kunte Kinte?
Sanders - oh so British. McMurtry - oh so Scottish or Irish.
This person in a walking United Nations of diversity correctness and bullshit.
Guess they couldn’t get a real job a McDonald’s.
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