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re: I believe many Americans have a functional misunderstanding
Posted on 6/4/24 at 10:44 am to sta4ever
Posted on 6/4/24 at 10:44 am to sta4ever
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Democratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of North Korea
So are these Democracies or Republics?
They're true democracies with misleading nomenclature to confuse people about the actual form of government. You know, twisting words and meanings to disingenuously appear differently than in actuality.
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statist4ever
Your team is notorious for this. But you already know that, unless of course the misdirection tactics have confused you like most other people.
In a true democracy, you only need around half of the population to be willfully ignorant and blind in order for the government to have the ammunition to say that everything is legit. Look at American, and tell me that scenario doesn't even look slightly familiar?
We have 35% on the Right that stay there. We have 30% on the Left that stay there. Then, you have the predominantly insufferable 30% fence riders in the "middle" that inflate their egos by telling themselves they have transcended political and societal biases, and say that there are things on "both sides" with which they disagree and agree. But politics have become so polarized that there is no actual "middle". The middle has shifted so far to the left in recent times that if you're not hard-line conservative, you're almost a pinko. The "elected" government of the USA is a majority Etatist Kleptocracy with a very few outliers (your Rand Paul types) that go against the grain.
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Posted on 6/4/24 at 12:17 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I agree, however, that is separate from the facts, and the point I was making; the progressive movement has commingled and confused the difference between “democracy” and a “representative republic” which happens to be how our government is formed. This is a deliberate attempt to weaken the form of government that we have. Specifically, this is instituted during vulnerable times in young people’s lives. Also, this has been performed during core education with the exclusion of basic civics, and the curriculum that’s imposed by the DOE. It’s by design.
Posted on 6/4/24 at 2:27 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Yet, strangely Progressives claim the electoral college is an attack on democracy.
It's not an "attack" on anything, but it is a non-democratic or less democratic mechanism. It's a republican mechanism.
BTW, not sure what you're getting so bent about here, but o.k.
Posted on 6/4/24 at 2:28 pm to wackatimesthree
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BTW, not sure what you're getting so bent about here, but o.k.
Rog woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning
Posted on 6/4/24 at 2:29 pm to wackatimesthree
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It's not an "attack" on anything, but it is a non-democratic or less democratic mechanism.
Yes, its part of our representative Republic, which explains our government far better than "Our Democracy."
Posted on 6/4/24 at 2:30 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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If you cant honestly claim that its being used disingenuously by many on the left
I'm not sure why the contentiousness over this.
At this point the United States is just as accurately described as a democracy as a republic.
They do seem to deliberately default to the word democracy, but according to what the words mean, they aren't wrong.
Posted on 6/4/24 at 2:39 pm to wackatimesthree
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I'm not sure why the contentiousness over this.
You a lawyer too?
Posted on 6/4/24 at 5:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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You a lawyer too?
Are you an a-hole too?
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