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H.R. 1 is Emblematic of the Crisis of
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Posted By: earlybird, 3/23/2021 4:41:10 PM

There is no evidence at all after 60 days of the new administration, of any disposition to collaborate with moderate Republicans in a centrist response to the many policy challenges the administration faces. President Biden remains the man who said of the hooliganism at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, that it was a “white supremacist” attack bungled by “white supremacist” Capitol police and directly incited by the outgoing president in an effort to overturn an election result which the Democrats,(Snip) represent as an unquestionably fair electoral outcome. (Snip)candidate Biden said that the Democratic program was what he determined it to be,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 3/23/2021 4:46:03 PM (No. 732920)
FTA: In the name of defeating “voter suppression,” which is the Democrats’ definition of any attempt to ensure that the Constitution is honored by holding fair elections in which only citizens vote in their rightful places on Election Day, the Democrats are planning to ensure that they never lose a federal election again.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: marbles 3/23/2021 4:47:51 PM (No. 732924)
HR 1 if passed and signed into law will make election fraud legal.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 3/23/2021 4:47:59 PM (No. 732925)
That would be "American Republic". There has never been any "American Democracy" except in the minds of poorly informed people, often writers for newspapers and such. I would expect better from Mr. Black, who is normally well informed. The difference is NOT trivial. The founding fathers spent a good bit of time writing that they explicitly rejected and were horrified by democracies, and did NOT want anything to do with democracy, and so specifically created a representative republic, and were very clear to distinguish between the two. And we should be, also.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 3/23/2021 4:49:09 PM (No. 732927)
Black does not just describe the problem; he describes what he believes must be done and by whom.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 3/23/2021 6:36:59 PM (No. 733036)
I really wish that people would stop using "democracy" so flagerantly incorrectly, and use the correct 'republic'.He is not the threat, he has demonstrated that he is not a threat to democracy. But he is being invoked as a threat by those who really are a threat to democracy. However, putting that aside, Mr. Black's comments are pretty good. Speaking of President Trump he says, "He is not the threat, he has demonstrated that he is not a threat to democracy. But he is being invoked as a threat by those who really are a threat to democracy." Yes, this is exactly right. And let's hope that Republicans and others who do not want to see this country destroyed by the Demonrats can pull together to turn things around in next year's elections. But....the Demonrats are working desperately to make fair elections entirely impossible in the future, to codify fraud, corruption and totalitarian rule. Let's hope we can avoid a literal civil war.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: samoasam 3/23/2021 7:35:49 PM (No. 733086)
Why do you people continue to discuss, argue, ruminate about everything the left does 24/7. The solution is secession. Stop dealing with these morons.The red states and counties have the majority of people as well who understand that the left is/has destroyed our country. It’s time to reset America by seceding from these Marxist Democrat states.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: red1066 3/23/2021 7:47:58 PM (No. 733094)
H.R. 1 isn't emblematic of democracy, it's emblematic of communism.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: BillW. 3/24/2021 8:28:57 AM (No. 733538)
Why do you people....? We're on the same side on here, #6, but you're right, we've been calling for succession all along. --Veterans Still for Trump
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Reply 9 - Posted by: pensom2 3/24/2021 10:01:39 AM (No. 733627)
Folks, please. Yes, the USA is a republic, not a pure democracy. In a pure democracy, every decision would be made by a vote of the people. We are a republic because we send representatives to the federal legislature (House and Senate), and to the executive branch (White House) to make decisions on our behalf, including the appointment of the judiciary. Yes, we are a republic. But we are a "democratic republic" because we vote for our representatives in democratic elections--meaning a vote of the citizenry! The key distinction of republicanism is that a republic is structured in such a way as to prevent a bare majority from overwhelming the legitimate rights of the minority. In a pure democracy, large population centers such as New York, Texas, Illinois, and California could completely overwhelm the less-populated states and ignore their minority interests. The senate having two senators from each state provides a republican brake to the legislature. The fact that our federal judiciary is appointed by nomination of the executive branch and approved by the senate is a republican measure. If all Supreme Court justices were installed by popular election of the people, that would be an example of pure democracy. Please, please stop emasculating so many compelling editorial arguments of the conservative punditry simply because they refer to our "democracy." Our system includes elements of both representative republicanism and citizen-voting democracy in installing our those representatives.
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