Should the slogan be 'Make Democracy Great Again'?

So, a movement back to functional delusions? This post was edited by O-uknow at June 29, 2018 5:47 AM MDT

If that is what you call less polarization.

Funny to hear you of all people talk about “functional delusions”...ironic.  This post was edited by Don Barzini at June 29, 2018 1:05 PM MDT

Much better slogan, Don. 

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people". - Abraham Lincoln

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-US-a-republic-or-a-democracy-1

Paul J. Richards - Wash Post.

I often hear people argue that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that’s a false dichotomy. A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, “A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them” — we are that. A common definition of “democracy” is, “Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives” — we are that, too.

The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people". - Abraham Lincoln This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at June 29, 2018 11:39 AM MDT

And "direct democracy" doesn't work on any large scale ... other than anarchy, if you call that "working".  LOL

Let's put aside Paul J. Richards and the Washington Compost for a minute and read how the Founding Fathers felt about a democracy. 

  
Alexander Hamilton "We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of a dictatorship. "Hamilton, in the last letter he ever wrote, warned that "our real disease is DEMOCRACY."

  
Thomas Jefferson said: "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

  Benjamin Franklin said: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” After the Constitutional Convention was concluded, in 1787, a bystander inquired of Franklin: "Well, Doctor, what have we got a Republic or a Monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it." 

  
John Adams, wrote: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.”

  
James Madison, the father of the Constitution wrote in Federalist Paper No. 10 that pure democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

 The Constitution itself, in Article IV, Section 4, declares: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Obviously the Framers were not speaking of a political party, as no political parties existed at that time. Clearly, the Founders gave us plenty of warning that democracies have historically led to tyranny and that, in their wisdom, they never intended our nation to devolve into a democracy. Who am I going to believe, Paul J. Richards from a notoriously liberal left newspaper or the hands on, where the rubber meets the road Founding Fathers, who knew better than anyone what the dangers of a democracy were? With all due respect, instead of relying on a Paul J. Richards for your information on what type of government we have, perhaps you should read the history of the United States. Just a thought. :) This post was edited by rusureamisure? at July 16, 2018 5:40 PM MDT

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people". - Abraham Lincoln

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about. -Ronald Reagan 


This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at June 30, 2018 10:10 AM MDT

 Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan both loved this country. Having said that both were far enough removed from the founders of this country and their intent for this country to have lost sight of the distinctions between a democracy and a republic that the Framers had in mind. The word Democracy is never once found in the Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, or the Amendments yet it's a word that's freely tossed around today. Usually by people and politicians who have no idea what the word actually means in regards to the type of government system we have. :)

What a great answer. I love it. ;)

Thank you. I appreciate it. :)

"Now is the Time for All Good People to Come to the Aid of their Country" ...

Well, we know that everything that Trump says is a lie? First, who's "we"? Second, how do you know for a fact that Trump lies about everything? Third, are you privy to everything Trump has ever said in his life to have come to the conclusion that he lies about everything? Forth, do you have any documentation/proof/hard facts that Trump lies about everything? No? Didn't think so. :)