I’m glad we aren’t a true democracy. True democracy – without the constitution and its bill of rights – would allow 50.1% of the people to rule over the 49.9% of people. They could vote to stop allowing free speech, vote in to completely allow the state to take the majority of your possessions and give it to others. Pure democracy can be ver tyrannical to the individual especially when a huge portion of the population are low information voters who are susceptible to the whims of time and emotion.

MoreLiberty on March 15, 2013 at 5:40 AM

…which is already happening.

Punchenko on March 14, 2013 at 8:46 PM

You can only bury them so many times, ya know.

I blame today’s lousy public education system that rewrites history with a liberal slant.

We are not a democracy. We are a republic. And that is a good thing.
fight like a girl on March 14, 2013 at 8:43 PM

How are we still a republic? I do not see it any longer. We are no longer free citizens. We are slaves to the degenerate 50%.

We are not a democracy. We are a republic. And that is a good thing.

Of course. But most Americans don’t really understand the critical difference between direct (i.e. Athenian) democracy and republican democracy. And when you point out that we’re not a “true” democracy (god forbid you should point out that “true” democracies invariably self-destruct) to the average non-civically-minded person, they think you sound like some sort of fascist.

To be sure, Paul got a surprising amount of support from his Republican colleagues during the filibuster. But the big surge came only after hour three, and only after the filibuster’s popularity was obvious.

This is actually unfair to the Senate Republicans who supported him. Paul had run the idea by Mitch McConnell a week in advance and gotten his thumbs-up (however much we may profess to disdain McConnell, credit must be given where due), and there was nothing opportunistic about the support that Cruz, Lee, Kirk, and Barrasso showed for him. To be sure, I suspect a few folks who showed up later were bandwagon-hopping (Thune, Scott, Flake, etc. — and I *like* all those guys!) but given the level of investment shown by Cruz, Lee and Barrasso in speaking and actually engaging in a dialogue up there, it’s pretty obvious they weren’t just putting in face-time to showboat.

Both are equally horrible and both subverted the Reagan Revolution.

Well right now I’ll take Rand’s “Problems” over Mr Crankypants and his little Mini-Me from SC.

JFKY on March 14, 2013 at 8:35 PM

Bwahahahahaha!

For all the times we butt heads, that was pretty darn funny!

We are not a democracy. We are a republic. And that is a good thing.