The International Symbol of Democracy
Posted on 11/28/2021 4:37:04 PM PST by artichokegrower
Democracy isn’t as popular as it used to be. Take the Oroville City Council’s overwrought recent declaration that it’s a “Constitutional Republic City,” which is steeped in creeping disregard for a once-presumptive American ideal. The measure declares that the council’s members and constituents need not follow the laws of the duly and democratically elected state and federal governments in which they’re located — and upon which they’re deeply dependent — because, well, they don’t want to.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Democracy is nothing more than the largest possible oligarchy. 50% + 1
Stick a fork in it. Long live the Republic
town, that they would so casually dismiss any obligation to it beyond their personal and political whims.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article255974847.html#storylink=cpy
Wow, dude, look in the mirror…
The International Symbol of Democracy
Two words for this buffoon.
Sanctuary Cities.
It’s like huh?
These leftists implementing sanctuary cities complaining?
It’s always the same. They can do whatever they want but we cannot.
The International Symbol of Democracy
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So, is it only within France that it is considered to be a symbol of rabid, bloodthirsty anti-Catholicism?
Asking for a friend...
Antifa/BLM push around a guillotine.
No, not since the Communist Manifesto declared Catholicism among its primary enemies.
President Wilson is being cancelled...
NJ district to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from high school
Partisan Media Shill alert.
Thanks artichokegrower.
Agreed. Annoys the living crap out of me to hear it referred to by so many as a "democracy" And so many of those people get all pissed off at being corrected, even in the most mild and cordial manner.
Remember when the paper ran the very same editorial excoriating “sanctuary cities” and the city councils and mayors for picking and choosing which laws to follow?
Me, either.
Two more words for him/her/it: "Constitutional Republic". Heh. :-)
Thank you. Wondered if I would get to the end of the posts and had to correct that foolish statement.
Thank you, news to me. I hope that movement grows legs. The left is consuming itself, a pleasure to behold.
SacBee is’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
NOTHING they EVER publish is of any redeeming value.
JR could lay down a standing moratorium on posting anything from any McClatchy media organ and these forums would be immediately enhanced.
Ah... well... no, not really, since American Democracy goes back to Day One, arguably to, yes, Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson, of course, referred to himself as a small-r "republican", but he was also a huge fan of the "Democratic" French Revolution (you know, "the blood of tyrants"), so his Federalist political opponents called his new party the "Democratic Republicans", "Democratic" referring to the French guillotine & such.
Well, it turned out that Jeffersonians liked that word "Democratic" and began calling themselves the "Democratics" and their party "the Democracy".
And today they still do, only today they say, "our Democracy", by which of course they mean their political party, but you're not supposed to know that -- you're supposed to think that by "our Democracy" they mean the United States constitutional government.
They don't, they mean their Democratic party, for example: "Donald Trump is a threat to our Democracy."
It's true as they mean it, but of course not as you're supposed to think.
Democracy is the ideal of the Democratic party -- "the Democracy".
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.Never at any time did I say that the USA has no history with democracy. What I said is that republicanism (versus democracy) is the founding ideal, and is set so specifically in the Constitution.
— Elbridge Gerry, Madison Debates
(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.
— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […]
In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat—that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …
— Friedrich Engels, “The Principles of Communism”
(I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson
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