Elim Garak
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Average Facebook user look y'all I put up a graphic with some words.
Utah senator not a fan of democracy
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Average Facebook user look y'all I put up a graphic with some words.
Nah, it’s pretty accurate.
When you say the Pledge of Allegiance, are you pledging allegiance to the Democracy or the Republic for which it stands?
That graphic is fake news.
Rome was a republic and then it was an empire.
So...
Rome was a republic and then it was an empire.
So...
Elim Garak
Veteran
I'm well aware that we living in a representative democracy lol. I know you think you kicking knowledge but nah.
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We know this. The American republic was established to give the power to landed white men, and disenfranchised everyone else. The American right wants to bring a system like this back. That's why they love the current state of the electoral college and do everything they can to make it harder to vote.
I'll never trust a white conservative on democracy.
Elim Garak
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Continue gentlemen I'm intrigued
It's just republicans trying to control language by changing the curriculum. When I was in school they always boasted about how awesome america's democracy was. No one ever talked about how awesome a constitutional republic was.
Again, with George Bush's war in Iraq all of the conservative pundits were talking about how democracy would spread there and thus end terrorism (anybody else remember that nation building propaganda?). Even going back to the cold war it was always democracy vs communism. Not the constitutional republic vs communism.
but around 2010 republican school districts started to subtlety change the language in text books.
Texas school board approves controversial textbook changes - Need to Know | PBS
According to the Associated Press,
In one of the most significant curriculum changes, the board diluted the rationale for the separation of church and state in a high school government class, noting that the words were not in the Constitution and requiring students to compare and contrast the judicial language with the First Amendment’s wording.
The board also required that the U.S. be referred to as a “constitutional republic” rather than a “democratic” one.
Conservative panel members argued that the state curriculum had long been dominated by liberal ideas, and it was aiming to reverse the trend
That was happening in a lot places around the country.
I guess people are buying into the new programming
They don’t want to bring it back, it never went anywhere.
They’re trying to preserve it.
ThrobbingHood
Take from the b*tch, give to the whores.
That’s what they do. They NEVER play fair. EVER! That’s why I tell Black people to take every advantage of the system and their loopholes legally.
CACs will tell you to obey the law whilst they’ll find every way to move the goalposts for themselves.
The wisest adage I’ve ever read was:
“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”
He’s talking like I’m in here kickin prison knowledge.
The United States is a federal constitutional republic.
(First sentence)
Politics of the United States - Wikipedia
We use the system of democracy to elect our delegates, but the use of delegates is what makes our country a Republic and not a Democracy.
MajesticLion
Superstar
All of those nuanced semantics ended with corporate personhood.
Work the problem, not the symptoms.
Work the problem, not the symptoms.
If there's a picture it must be true
no wonder these right wing motherfukkers ain't saying shyt about Trump. They really about that dictator, fascist life. Is there a way these politicians can be vetted better? Some of these people have no business holding office, making laws or decisions that effect districts, cities, counties, states or countries.
Elim Garak
Veteran
They really some straight lunatics hopefully this election will be a clean sweep which I think it will be.