Correct, it is Their Democracy verses Our Republic. They will be remined that this is our home field.

Democracy is just a fancy name for mob rule...get the biggest mob and you win.

The original Greek democracy (~ 509 BC):

• Applied to the city state of Athens only
• About 250,000 people lived in Athens
• About 100,000 of those were citizens of Athens; the rest were slaves and foreigners
• Only males over 18, who were also citizens, could vote
• The city state was divided into 10 districts
• Each district had the 18+ male citizens drawn by lottery (there were no elections) for the 50 member seats from each district, which would serve for 1 year in their legislature (50 x 10 districts = 500 members of the legislature ... for 100,000 citizens -- versus 535 for 300,000,000+ citizens in America today)
• The legislature would propose new laws, and all the 18+ males could vote on these laws, even if they were not currently a member of the legislature
• What could be called their executive branch were run by employed bureaucrats
• The judicial system had courts, where the judges were also chosen by lottery (no elections) among the 18+ male citizens
• It was a very unstable system, because the whims of whomever were in the legislature would change each year
• The majority (of 18+ male citizens) could vote on anything they wanted, without limitation
• This has come to be known as "mob rule"
• Remember, this was 3,000 years ago
• The system lasted for about 200 years
• The original Greek democracy collapsed when Alexander the Great conquered Athens
• Interestingly, Alexander was a student of Aristotle, and had an admiration for Greek philosophy, including art. He largely left the Greeks to do their own thing, as long as they did not upset his power, while he went on to conquer Persia

The original Roman republic (~ 507 BC):

• Applied to the city state of Rome
• Was a more complex system of government than the Greek democracy
• Included checks and balances against any individual or group having too much power
• Had 3 branches of government: Assembly, Senate, Magistrates
• The Assembly was made up of a subset of citizens, and made laws, declared war, and appointed magistrates
• The Senate was made up of the wealthy elite, and advised the actions of the Assembly
• The magistrates oversaw the laws and actions of the Assembly
• The Roman Republic had a written constitution, which defined the authority of the various parts of the government
• The republic lasted about 300-400 years, until the age of the Roman Empire began, with dictatorial powers of the caesars, though they often paid lip service to the principles of the the Roman constitution

The British government would evolve largely on the Roman model, with a legislature that included 2 chambers: a House of Commons (the common people) and an "upper" house, the House of Lords (the king's noble buddies), with the king as the executive head. The king would lose more and more power over the years, with the legislature starting out merely as advisory to the king (in order to placate the masses who saw the king as abusive to their rights), and later to where the king had no official political power (setting aside the discussion of a hidden power in the City of London).

The American founding fathers understood the differences between these two forms of government. They rejected the Greek democracy model, and they embraced the Roman constitutional republican model, while also keeping in mind the British model that they had just rejected and fought a war over their succession. They attempted to improve on the Roman model with the American constitutional republic.

Ghouls

Democracy = "popular-vote" worship = majority rule

So white conservative Christian patriot gun owners who like following the Constitution and enjoy sex only with (a) willing (b) adult (c) humans (d) of the opposite sex (d) in private...

...rule.

OK. I may be agnostic but I feel like Christians are, mostly, nice people who aren't out to kill us all so...yeah

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Just. Go. Away.

Correct. She’s speaking about the cult. When they talk about democracy they are talking about their “system”. We are a republic.

I had always thought the way the left and politicians use democracy in their wording allows them to be better able to lie about the context of topic being discussed. They freak out at the thought of losing democracy. They are also very specific to use the word democracy when they speak. It’s interesting to notice next time you hear a politician or journalist speak about politics because what they say is true in regards to democracy but has so business even being discussed since our country is a constitutional republic. They know if they substituted constitutional republic for democracy they would be lying. IMO

Translation: "lose our constitutional democracy" means they might lose their freedom.

Leave them nothing!