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"BE UNGOVERNABLE!!" says the political party that wants to control every aspect of private life and turn you into an underpaid, uneducated drone.
Well, if you insist.
I prefer my political parties to know what democracy means and what republics are.
Don't they bill themselves as law and order?
Law and order just means not questioning cops when they murder people in the street.
That's the tricky thing about political dog whistles, that words have multiple, related meanings. They can say "law and order" and we hear law as "rule of law," and order as the lack of civil unrest.
They hear law as police power, as in "the law is at the door," and order as hierarchy. E.g. white conservatives are at the top of the social order.
These are the same people who filled out fake electoral college ballots to try to steal the presidency for Trump…
someone hit me with the "America is not a democracy" t'other day.
I asked "do Americans not vote then?"
no reply.
We do. But the people we voted for in the past get to decide who we are allowed to vote for in the future. And money decides who gets their message spread to the most people.
That is (a form of) Democracy.
It's more of a subversion of democracy.
What I’ve heard some of them advocate (trump in power indefinitely, followed by his children) isn’t a republic, so
We vote to suggest to a smaller group of people who they should vote for. It’s the smaller group of people who’s vote actually counts. I’m surprised they weren’t able to respond.
That's (a form of) democracy.
Sure is! It’s not what I’d want to for presidential elections, since the electorial college is a terrible idea. Thankfully it’s only the presidency that’s decided by electorial college.
not to belabor it - but my point was that the phrase "America is not a democracy" is false.
Indict these clowns
Chemically sterilize them.
The GOP are the rules lawyers of real life, struggling to play fair and fighting everyone to see the same definition as they do for things like "rights" and "democracy". They don't fight because the believe a few hundred million people want to have their voices ignored - they want to be right and have their fight instructions popped into their ear.
"We don't live in a democracy..." Is said by those who want to change America from a democracy. We are trying our best to be a democracy but those trolls and oligarchs stiffle any attempt to be a democracy and then hold it against us.
They don’t actually do any governing in the first place, so this isn’t anything new