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Democracy is not in crisis just because Democrats are losing
Hot Air ^ | 4 Jan 2022 | John Sexton

Posted on 01/04/2022 5:11:22 PM PST by Rummyfan

Everywhere you look, Democrats are warning about the threat to democracy currently posed by Trump or the GOP or some combination of the two. The panic seems omnipresent and is peaking as we approach the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots at the capitol. Last week the NY Times published an editorial titled “Every day is Jan. 6 now.”

One year after the smoke and broken glass, the mock gallows and the very real bloodshed of that awful day, it is tempting to look back and imagine that we can, in fact, simply look back. To imagine that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 — a deadly riot at the seat of American government, incited by a defeated president amid a last-ditch effort to thwart the transfer of power to his successor — was horrifying but that it is in the past and that we as a nation have moved on…

In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends. No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists.

You’ll get no argument from me that the riots were anything but bad news, but every day is not January 6. That’s hysteria and the media is inviting more of it.

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1 posted on 01/04/2022 5:11:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Democrats oppose democracy.


2 posted on 01/04/2022 5:16:01 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Statistics don't matter when they happen to you.)
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To: Rummyfan
In our constitutional REPUBLIC, I would hope we are "openly contemptuous of democracy".

Everybody should be, even those with whom we disagree on everything else.

3 posted on 01/04/2022 5:17:11 PM PST by Mogger
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To: Rummyfan

Bingo! Personally, I could shive a git about their so called “democracy”. Democracies SUCK!! Mob rule. I prefer a REPUBLIC!!! Democracies are for children. Republics are for ADULTS.


4 posted on 01/04/2022 5:23:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Rummyfan

The ‘Rats are Demons, Jim.

Nothing more, nothing less.


5 posted on 01/04/2022 5:30:34 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Rummyfan

The only bloodshed was the hit Nancy ordered.


6 posted on 01/04/2022 5:39:08 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The adults did not know what natural born citizen meant and gave it away on January 20, 2009.


7 posted on 01/04/2022 5:40:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Rummyfan

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8 posted on 01/04/2022 5:46:12 PM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: Rummyfan

Be careful when you say that the RATs are losing, The RATs know how to fight and are willing to spill blood — something the pubbies know nothing about.


9 posted on 01/04/2022 5:49:49 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Rummyfan

They are losing? People need to get a grip. Democrats are getting a;most everything they want. People can’t even publicly object to their issues.


10 posted on 01/04/2022 6:00:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Rummyfan

I wouldn’t bet on it. The RATS will control fraudulent elections while nary a word from Republicans. The will play the omni virus to the hilt, mail in ballots. Don’t count the chickens before they hatch.


11 posted on 01/04/2022 6:38:20 PM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: Rummyfan

Democracy is not in crisis just because Democrats are losing
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Quite the opposite: Democracy will continue to be in increasing crisis until the Democrats cease to exist. And the sooner they cease to exist the more secure our Democracy will be!


12 posted on 01/04/2022 8:34:40 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: Mogger

In our constitutional REPUBLIC, I would hope we are “openly contemptuous of democracy”.

Everybody should be, even those with whom we disagree on everything else.
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Well and truly said and every word of it. It always gives me great pleasure to remind the ‘rats that the word “democracy” is not in our Constitution.


13 posted on 01/04/2022 8:37:52 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

The adults did not know what natural born citizen meant and gave it away on January 20, 2009.
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True that!


14 posted on 01/04/2022 9:03:11 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: kenmcg

The RATS will control fraudulent elections while nary a word from Republicans.
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Republican-Democrat UNIPARTY is why, after the stolen election, I re-registered as an Independent. Trump should have established a genuine SECOND political party for his 80+ million voters. He didn’t and if he runs in 2024 he’ll have his own Party working to see him defeated. Pitiful!


15 posted on 01/04/2022 9:13:04 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

And the sooner they cease to exist the more secure our Democracy will be!
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Sorry, I meant to say “our Republic”.


16 posted on 01/04/2022 9:15:23 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Stay to the right and be ready to fight.)
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To: ctdonath2

Democrats are commies!


17 posted on 01/05/2022 12:41:40 AM PST by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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