If I have to listen to another Democrat hue and cry about “our democracy”, I’m going to puke.
There’s a reason we’re not a democracy. We are a Republic, although at this point I would say we’re post republic and post-constitution based on how the government acts. Democracy is mob rule. Our founding fathers knew this. They weren’t dumb or ignorant, unlike your average college student these days. They had studied history, and knew that every single democracy in history had failed.
So they didn’t give us a democracy. They gave us a republic, if we could keep it. Based on what I see coming out of D.C., I think we failed. But that just makes us a corrupt oligarchy, not a democracy.\
In any case, when you hear a Democrat wailing about “our democracy”, you can rest assured that actual democracy is the last thing that they want. Kind of like how they have to save democracy by imprisoning their political enemies. You know, like the USSR did. So democratic!
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I suspect that when they moan about saving “our” democracy, the one they have in mind is patterned on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. AKA, North Korea.
They might have once been thinking of The Democratic Republic of Vietnam. However even the Vietnamese got rid of that malarkey in 1976 when they no longer felt it served their purposes; so our radicals don’t even think highly of that name any longer if think is even applicable.
See Athens’ treatment of Alcibiades, back around Plato’s time. I’d come across the name before but nothing about him had stuck until I read his chapter in Plutarch’s Lives. Not saying that was The Truth, but if the description there was even second cousin of the truth, the American Founders were wise to be wary of the mob.
Or the average college associate professor.