We are NOT a Democracy! (An OUTSTANDING Article!)

Strike the Root! ^ | FR Post - Election Day 11-5-2002 | Joseph S. Bommerito

[antidisestablishment]

Great article! It's a shame that most Americans would not have a clue what it was about. Damn Dewey and his ilk for stealing our children's heritage.

[philman_36]

We should expect alot out of a Republican President, congress, and senate. Like returning alot of power to the states and getting back to a Republican form of government.
Methinks you're expecting too much. We'll see though, won't we.

[philman_36]

Republic = Republicans !!!
Then what happened to the Republicans? They spout that "Democracy" pap just as much as the Democrats do!

[antidisestablishment]

Communism=Democrats

Plutocracy=Republicans

Commutocracy=Republicans and Democrats usurping our constitutional republic.

[Nonfaction]

Historian Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote then that “A democracy . . . can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”

Great quote, but probably apocryphal. Even the Library of Congress has been unable to locate it in any of Tytler's writings.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

DEMOCRACY IS THE RULE OF FOOLS BY FOOLS!!

[motor_racer]

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

A constitutional republic is a mechanism for slowing down the corruptive process of democracy. Eventually, however, if the people are corrupt enough, long enough, they will overwhelm and slowly destroy even the most perfect of constitutions. That's where we are today.

The stressing of a government founded on the Judao-Christian principles was the intended antidote to this. That is another reason the Democrat/Communists fight any reference by government to religion.

[philman_36]

Republic = Republicans !!!
Any questions???
Yeah...
Then what happened to the Republicans? They spout that "Democracy" pap just as much as the Democrats do!

But you're obviously not going to address it!!!

[Nephi]

Repeal the 17th Amendment BUMP!!!

It may not be that difficult.
Bill Benson has written a book which documents his investigation in all of the states of the union and found that the niether the 16th, or the 17th ammendment were properly ratified. They can both be overturned if they are attacked properly in the courts - if the court will hear the cases.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Auntie Mame]

"...The inherent vice of freedom is the unequal sharing of the blessings;

the inherent blessing of equality will be the equal sharing of misery..."

Do you know the author for these quotes?

[Fiddlstix]

Great Article
Thanks for posting this

[IronJack]

No self-respecting person of that era would call himself a democrat.

Today, no self-respecting person would call himself a Democrat.

[MissAmericanPie]

I would like to think we would set our sites high. We better make hay while we have things our way and pressure them, pressure them, pressure them. No baby steps forward, that's a cop out.

They will have the mandate and instead of apologizing to the democrats for winning and setting a "new tone" in D.C. by making themselves door mats, we are going to have to inject some spine in them. Yes?

[philman_36]

They will have the mandate and instead of apologizing to the democrats for winning and setting a "new tone" in D.C. by making themselves door mats, we are going to have to inject some spine in them. Yes?
We're reduced to having to "inject spines" into them? Have they no spines of their own?
Well, squids and jellyfish are squids and jellyfish.
If "we" must I guess "we" must.
So sad...

[TiaS]

To the cynical one: Just remember -- sometimes, there's a sheep that Jesus watches over.

[vannrox]

Reference and Cross-Reference BUMP.

[lizma]

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
- Sir Winston Churchill

[BikerNYC]

Nice article, but it doesn't really define what it means when it uses the terms "democracy" or "republic."