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Sen Mike Lee tweeted ‘We’re not a democracy' -- Twitter goes berserk
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"A politician will do almost anything to keep their job, even become a patriot" - Hearst
This is why I stopped watching the last debate.
The moderator said she was non partisan and then started talking about "Our Democracy."
Whenever a Democrat or Republican talks about "our democracy", never take them seriously.
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
Are the masks and lockdowns a sign of a Republic?
Mike Lee is simply wrong about this. So is everyone else who repeats this cliché.Sen Mike Lee tweeted "We’re not a democracy"
At the latest (and arguably sooner than that), the United States stopped being a republic when the 17th Amendment was enacted.
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
The Founding Fathers hated democracy. The Constitution is inherently an anti-democratic document. It's entire purpose is to constrain majorities from terrorizing minorities.
St. Milton's view.
Well , the republic has been dead but it is mostly because of communists like the pussies on twitter
There are two types of Democracies. Direct Democracy (Traditionally called Democracies) and Representative Democracies (Traditionally called Republics). Both are Democracies therefore we have a Democracy. BUT, we also have a Bill of Rights (Limited Government) and a Federal System (Divided Power). Both being much more important for our Liberty than Majority Rule.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds" - Sam Adams
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