Saturday, July 2, 2022

Let's put an end to the "we're not a democracy we're a republic" bull.

This line came up in the recent Wyoming Congressional debate, which was a true parade of horrors.  You can view it here:

June 30, 2022

Wyoming Republican House Debate:


A fairly well done synopsis of things:

It was so bad, that it immediately started circulating nationally, inspiring all sorts of comments, of which perhaps the most succinctly devastating was the one by Adam Kinzinger, who stated:


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This debate really was filled with a bunch of arm-pit farters and then there was Liz Cheney, the only serious person up there.
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This wasn't SNL on a Thursday night. This was Wyoming's Republican primary debate.
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Anyhow, one of the first lines that came up in the debate was the line by Robyn Belinsky, when asked if the events of January 6 constituted a threat to our democracy, was the reply "we're not a democracy we're a republic".

I've heard this dimwitted statement by loads of people over the years, and not all of them were dimwits by any means.  But its time for this really dim comment to cease.

We are a democracy, although right now that's hanging by a thread.

We are a democratic federal republic.

Like Switzerland, for example.

We are not a parliamentary democracy.

But we're still a democracy.

If people vote to chose their government, they're a democracy.  

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