Politics @lemmy.ml btaf45 @lemmy.world 6 days ago

GOP party convention says quiet part out loud: "We do not want to be a democracy.”

www.seattletimes.com The WA GOP put it in writing that they’re not into democracy

Some Republicans have been defensive that the party has a strong anti-democratic bent. But the state GOP convention embraced it, writes columnist Danny Westneat.

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Cool, they should lose their right to vote then.
Republicans are an existential threat. We should treat them as such.
Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.

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Half the country doesn’t want a democracy
What would the FOUNDERS have done?

-Republicans but ONLY after a classroom full of 6 year olds gets shot up!
It was that way from the start, by design.

"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government. Can a democratic assembly, who annually revolve in the mass of the people, be supposed steadily to pursue the public good? Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy."

That's not a unique quote either, it's typical of the Founders' thoughts.
This story was censored in politics@lemmy.world BTW
To be fair, these people kept on screaming for years about how they're a constitutional republic... not a democracy...

Not that this is a good thing, of course...
I'm not even remotely suprised.
So go be a despotist dungeon on some remote pacific island and stay the fuck out of america
Every single republican should fornicate themselves with an iron stick
Good. This is a Constitutional REPUBLIC. Not a fkin degenerate democracy.
Move to China then losers. They've got some empty cities for you.
That is correct, we dont want a democracy, democracy is never good. As the saying goes "the most pure democracy is a lynch mob headed for the gallows." Meaning that everyone is in agreement except the person that is about to die.

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