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The Alarm Bell Is Clanging

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 3/23/2024 8:05:12 AM

We are all aware that democracy is not a modern invention. It was characteristic of many city-states in the ancient world. Athens, for instance, had a flourishing democracy in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., until the independence of the city disappeared in the emerging age of empires. Rome had a “mixed” constitution in which democracy was an important element until the republic vanished, to be replaced by monarchy in the first century B.C., the age of Caesar and Augustus. We moderns didn’t create democracy. However, beginning with the American Founding Fathers,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: franq 3/23/2024 8:26:42 AM (No. 1683789)
He is correct. There is nothing new under the sun.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thekidsmom66 3/23/2024 8:32:28 AM (No. 1683793)
We are not a "democracy". We are a constitutional republic. They are NOT the same. In one, the people rule through elected representatives. In the other, majority rules. And the author should know part of the downfall of Greece was that democracy. That said, a republic that ignores its constitution will be reduced to a democracy. That is why the left refers to America as a democracy, and I wish Republicans , including the author of this article, would quit going along with them! By the way, Rome began to ignore their constitution, allowing, among other things, an influx of what we now ridiculously call "migrants", and it led to their downfall. Again, this is why the left pushes for "migration".
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Reply 3 - Posted by: thekidsmom66 3/23/2024 8:47:54 AM (No. 1683806)
I meant to add that this is also why "the will of the people", as the Dems used to love to say, is supposed to be carried out by the elected officials in a Republic. In other words, a politician runs on certain promises and the people elect him to go do those things. That is another reason the left plays the games it does and why the deep state grooms politicians - they want them to ignore the will of the people. This is why there are so many squishy Republicans who run as conservatives then begin to do what they want, or what they are groomed to do, once they are in DC, ignoring the will of those who elected them. This is, again, by design. This is part of how you get that "democracy", by slowly destroying constitutional representation, all of part of the bigger plan to destroy the republic, period
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Reply 4 - Posted by: snakeoil 3/23/2024 9:39:04 AM (No. 1683858)
The word "democracy" is not found in The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, or The Declaration of Independence to name a few. Why? Because democracy is winner take all where the will of the majority tramples the will of the minority. God help us if we ever become a true democracy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: czechlist 3/23/2024 11:21:39 AM (No. 1683947)
Whom the gods would destroy they first remove reason what is the "victory" in destroying the greatest nation and economy the planet has produced?
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