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1 posted on 08/17/2025 11:09:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
--- "The Stark Differences Between Democracy and Tyranny"

Given that we are a Republic, not a Democracy and not a Tyranny, the argument seems odd.

One comment to the article by Ck Michels resonates:

"Please go and educate yourself. The United States of America is not a democracy it is a Republic and it was structured that way in order to supply mechanisms to the PEOPLE to repulse the tyranny of democracy, ie mob rule."
The prose in the article drips with 'something' -- "Douglas Murray, whose words and writing pulse with Churchillian incandescence, describes the conflict precisely: it is being between democracies and death cults."

Personally and "precisely," I see our Republic arrayed against tyrannies and democracies and all. Not so "incandescent" nor "Churchillian" in my prose, but there it is.

2 posted on 08/17/2025 11:22:54 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.

In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.

The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.

In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.

Dan Smoot Report, 1966
If Shmuel said “republicanism”, he would have been correct, but instead he pushes a false dichotomy. Republicanism is the bulwark against the tyranny of democracy.
3 posted on 08/17/2025 11:58:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The democrats democracy is really Tyranny


4 posted on 08/17/2025 12:02:47 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

H.L. Mencken

7 posted on 08/17/2025 12:36:13 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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