173 Why do they call it a Democracy? Gaslighted for decades. Words matter! (twitter.com) 🔍 Notable posted 2 years ago by dumb_okie 2 years ago by dumb_okie +173 / -0 20 comments share 20 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Notice that Benjamin Franklin did NOT say “a democracy if you can keep it”. He said, famously, “a REPUBLIC if you can keep it“.
Trending: Kari Lake: “If We Give up Now We Will No Longer Have a Country”
Notice the song is NOT called “Battle Hymn of the Democracy”. It’s called “Battle Hymn of the REPUBLIC”.
Embarrassingly, many Republicans, even some good ones, fall into the trap of calling the United States a “democracy.” They should immediately stop.
I think it was quite clever for the Republicans to call themselves Republicans, to differentiate between them and Democracy-crats