CHAT It hangs by a thread (OP Feb 2021)

[CathyC]

Republic = individual rights & protections
Democracy = mob rule

Yes, and it is disgraceful how so many people who know better keep using the words “our Democracy” instead of what it is, a Republic. If your words aren’t right you end up on every rabbit trail of your choosing, and now what exists is clearly Lawlessness.

 

[Doomer Doug]

Bump good thread shouldn't die for 7 months

 

[JoanD777]

I missed this thread before, so glad you resurrected it. Read the whole thing. Thanks Doug.

 

[To-late]

Thomas Jefferson.

Another of my favorites from which to draw perspective.

“And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.”

interestingly most seem to miss this point.
“And to preserve their independence, we must NOT let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”

 

[BUBBAHOTEPT]

Are there even ten righteous left in Sodom err DC???

 

[Doughboy42]

It goes further: demonrats = mob rule = chaos = tyranny.