Posted on 06/18/2022 10:23:31 PM PDT by bitt
For all the showmanship presented by the Jan. 6 Committee for the supposed sake of saving American democracy, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats to preserve the bedrock function of the republic.
According to a new Fox News poll out Wednesday, 46 percent of registered voters said Republicans would “do a better job” on the “preservation of democracy,” compared to 45 percent who said the same of Democrats. Three percent said the two parties were equal in their democratic commitment and 6 percent were unsure.
Fox News surveyed 1,002 registered voters by phone with a 3 percent margin of error between June 10-13.
The results come as Democrats have built their long-term strategy by smearing Republican opponents as hellbent on dismantling democratic institutions — whether it be by branding new election integrity laws as undue voting restrictions or using Jan. 6 hysteria to push for annulment of the electoral college. The latter is an institution Democrats have repeatedly sought to destroy, potentially through recommendations from the Select Committee on Jan. 6.
Democrats have repeatedly cloaked their routine smear campaigns — from the Russia hoax, to a made-up impeachment-worthy scandal in Ukraine, and finally to the Jan. 6 Committee — as righteous efforts under a moral crusade to preserve 21st-century democracy.
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And yet, the smartest so-called woman in the Milky Way, who plotted and planned the Russia hoax, thinks otherwise.
So if this poll is accurate neither party comes out a winner.
That none of the respondents in the poll know that we’re not a democracy is disturbing.
The January 6 Committee has one target and that is Donald J Trump. All the rest is smoke and mirrors.
And this poll was from the notoriously left-wing FoxNews polling group so you know right away that in reality the percentage of Americans that actually believe Republians are better at protecting Democracy is much higher!
It is disturbing the public education system does a poor job of educating people about republican form of government. However, I recall even in the 1960’s, when I was going through primary and secondary school, teachers described our government as a “democracy” not a republic. In those days we were taught about representative government and the checks and balances of the co-equal branches. Democracy was used as a synonym for representative government in which the people democratically vote for the people who make the laws and have the duty of protecting the natural rights of the people. Much was made of the proposition we have individual liberty because we have a representative government, democratically elected.
What I see in this poll is the people correctly do not perceive either political party is concerned with protecting the rights of citizens. Both parties are squarely behind the Patriot Act, created during a Republican administration, which gives government wide ranging powers to spy on citizens and detain them without due process. Large majorities of the politicians in both parties lined up during the Covid pandemic to dramatically restrict civil liberties as well using the power of the state to compel employers to make vaccination a requirement of employment. The denial of Constitutionally enumerated and protected rights of due process to January 6 protestors has been cheered by Democrats and has been ignored by Republicans. The intrusion of the administrative state into the lives of every citizen is a bipartisan action of politicians of both parties.
In the last 30 years how often have you seen Republicans actually unify and take a stand for individual liberty and freedom? They talk about it, but their words are empty because when it comes time to taking action they are largely silent. Only a few (Rand Paul, Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Jim Jordan seem to be able to speak up consistently while the rest turn their backs.
The truth is that if a swat team broke my front door down in the middle of the night, the police seized my property thereby denying me the ability to use my own money to hire a top tier law firm, and the state imprisoned me indefinitely without bail or trial, there are only a handful Republican politician who would speak out against the denial of due process rights. The imprisonment without due process of the January 6 defendants is proof.
Look at voting rights. The Republicans repeatedly line up to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which allows the federal bureaucracy to impose restrictions on how an arbitrary and select group of states conduct elections. Yet few Republican politicians take any action with respect to vote harvesting, loose controls on mail in voting, or eliminating chain of custody of votes.
If “democracy” means representative government in which the representatives view their role as protecting the freedom of citizens as defined by the enumerated rights in the Constitution, neither party today will defend freedom. Look at the leaders the Republican members of Congress elect. I am under no illusion Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy wakes up in the morning and gives a thought to protecting democracy and consistent rule of law, much less ensuring all citizens the blessings of liberty. Stop listening to the patronizing words coming from their mouths and watch their behavior, specifically what they don’t do.
I’m actually surprised either party scored as high as it did in the poll.
Nothing really to argue about. I’d think some of those teachers might not want to say “Republic” in challenging the notion of “Democracy.” By that reckoning, a child might ask, “If we’re a Republic, and a Democracy is bad (which it is), might a Democrat party be bad ?” Of course, the answer is yes.
Curiously, being called a Democrat prior to Andrew Jackson’s era was considered an epithet. Though the Jeffersonians were the precursor to the Democrat party (and were named “Democrat(ic)-Republicans”), they referred to themselves as “Republicans” (although, again, the Federalists and then Whigs were precursors to the present Republicans).
You’re absolutely correct that if we don’t restore (R)epublican values as defined by the Constitution (and not the present party), there won’t be much of a country left in the coming years. Something of a more totalitarian nature will fill the void, and has already started.
The little that I have watched of this Stalinesque show-trial would definitely be enough to convince any honest, intelligent person not to trust those conducting it.
Russia hoax 2
The fake polls are just as fake as the fake news.
Quit calling it a democracy! We are a constitutional republic. If anything, say protecting our rights.
Who needs a “democrazy”?! We’ve got a Constitutional Republic!
If they count an illegal vote or two for every vote you make, then your vote doesn’t count.
I can't say I have a whole lot of trust in either party.
The poll looks tighter than it is - - democrats and their butt boys in the press have been pushing lies democrats care more. They don’t.
When democrats say ‘protecting democracy’ - they mean ‘protecting the power of democrats’...
Jan. 6 Committee = Judge Roy Bean Trial.
This is a Stalin style Show Trial... scary stuff.
Show trials are the opposite of what people should expect in a democracy. Shame on democrats.
And Americans don’t trust the FBI to protect democracy, either:
Rasmussen Reports finds that 46% of Likely U.S. voters have a favorable impression of the FBI, including 15% who have a Very Favorable view of the agency. That’s down from May 2020, when 60% had a favorable impression of the FBI. Forty-seven percent (47%) now view the FBI unfavorably, including 26% who have a Very Unfavorable impression.
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