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The founding fathers fought hard to establish a democratically elected constitutional republic and not a democracy.
In a true democracy, you have total mob rule. In any and all issues, the mob rules. 51% prefer slavery? Slavery it is! 50% +1 want to start or end a war? Done! Redistribution of wealth with a 95% tax on all taxpayers in the upper half of income? One swing voter (or one who can't understand the issue/gets spun by the media, not realizing he is upper half), and it is a deal! This is insanity, has been tried, and failed before.
Just because we do not like the name of a thing, or that unsavory others have misused the words, is no reason to dislike or fear words, especially when they accurately describe the system we have.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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