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A Democracy won't really work. That would mean that everyone would vote on everything. You would need everyone to vote if your town needed a new light bulb for instance.
In a republic, like we have, we elect people who are supposed to represent us and vote for us.
Nice try but the con mantra that we're a republic is usually followed by the assertion that anybody who says we're a Democracy is either stupid or a communist or whatever
The 'whatever' does seem to be most applicable. As in, 'at this point what difference does it make?'
A little education is a good thing. A few minutes of research will give you the answer that most American already know. Google is your friend. Something your school failed to do.
BTW, repeat the Pledge of Allegiance. The answer is there also.
The Pledge of Allegiance answers the question about Reagan going to third grade? Cons are getting stupider and stupider.
Some have been yapping about how we are a democracy but not a pure democracy we're a "representative democracy" blah blah blah. The big problem with that is I have been on enough of these forums and I have seen enough right wing "We're not a democracy!" threads and in every single one of them that argument is always that we're not a democracy in any way shape or form and that anybody who says we are is stupid.
A little education is a good thing. A few minutes of research will give you the answer that most American already know. Google is your friend. Something your school failed to do.
BTW, repeat the Pledge of Allegiance. The answer is there also.
Here's an example here from rightwing loon Mychal Massie
In what neo-leninists and those who worship at the cloven feet of obama called a powerful speech he stated:“Of course, our democracy is not the task of Congress alone, or the courts alone, or the president alone. …” Apparently only my good friend and colleague Erik Rush and myself actually took time to parse exactly what the "emperor" was really saying. He was calling for the overthrow of government. Put succinctly he was calling for a revolution. That said, he continued to exhaust the lie of America being a democracy. America is not a democracy but just as if you walk through a manure pile enough times, the manure will be spread far and wide, so too obama and his demonic led followers believe, if they call America a democracy enough times people will mindlessly accept same to be the case.
It doesn't matter what Thomas Jefferson said - or didn't say. Thomas Jefferson was not a framer of the Constitution. (He was serving as Ambassador to France at the time of the Constitutional Convention; and except for his correspondence with some of the delegates, what resulted was largly the work of James Madison.) To the contrary, the Constitution was a rejection of Jeffersonian democracy in favor of a constutional repubublic; which is a representational form of government. U.S. Const., Art. IV, Sec. 4.
It appears the signers themselves disagreed. Their experiment however worked out pretty well by either name. It actually appears to be a flaming non issue.
Nice try but the con mantra that we're a republic is usually followed by the assertion that anybody who says we're a Democracy is either stupid or a communist or whatever
Nice try but your claim about the "con mantra" is a strawman. Unless you can provide multiple links backing your statement up. After all, if this is a "mantra" that implies that is very common, and if it is "usually" followed up by that assertion, then there should no doubt be dozens of examples, right?
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