Pretty sure they just hate it because it starts “Dem”… and Republic starts “Rep”.
That’s up there with “AR is for armalite.”
Half of them would crown Trump, so it’s not like the “republic” part is very important to them, either.
“It’s not a quadrilateral, it’s a rectangle!”
That’s not a paperweight, that’s a (sigh)ber Truck.
They need to fight on semantics because they wanna hide the real agenda, which is removing agency from people, but mostly people they disagree with. They want to make the system less fair than it already is.
But they don’t want to say it out loud, so they parrot the republic/democracy line.
FFS
If you have to make a cheap meme, at least get it right:
Democracy is a form of Republic.
Republic means Res Publica: a public matter. (from Latin, the Roman empire was a republic, but not what we today think of as a democracy)
Democracy means: the people govern (From Greek, where it was kind of invented…)
Democracies and Republics are two different – but related – things.
Democracy is about how decisions are made.
Republic is about how the government claims legitimacy.
It makes sense for the two to go together, but things can be either, both, or neither. Norway is a democracy but not a republic: China is a republic but not a democracy. Indeed, we get the idea of a republic from Rome, which very specifically was not a democracy.
Saying “we’re a republic not a democracy” is like saying “it’s not a coupe, it’s a Ford”.
Whenever I hear someone say “wE’Re nOT a dEMOcrAcY, We’RE a rePUbLic!”, I automatically assume that they actually hate America and wished to go back to being an independent state.
They hate republicanism as well. They want a fascist do
“Republic” means “not a monarchy.” A republic can be a democracy or not a democracy. If they want a republic that is not a democracy, your options include Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
The palpetine party
Because they have a poor leader who is complete opposite of any villain in MCU (aka fascist)
republic (n.) “state in which supreme or executive power rests in the people via representatives chosen by citizens entitled to vote,” c. 1600, from French république(15c.), from Latin respublica (ablative republica) “the common weal, a commonwealth, state, republic,” literally res publica “public interest, the state,” from res “affair, matter, thing” (see re) + publica, fem. of publicus “public” (see public (adj.)).
Arguing with republicans is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn’t understand anything and will shit everywhere. Spare yourself the aggravation
Presidential Constitutional Federal Liberal Democratic Republic
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Pretty sure they just hate it because it starts “Dem”… and Republic starts “Rep”.
That’s up there with “AR is for armalite.”
Half of them would crown Trump, so it’s not like the “republic” part is very important to them, either.
“It’s not a quadrilateral, it’s a rectangle!”
That’s not a paperweight, that’s a (sigh)ber Truck.
They need to fight on semantics because they wanna hide the real agenda, which is removing agency from people, but mostly people they disagree with. They want to make the system less fair than it already is.
But they don’t want to say it out loud, so they parrot the republic/democracy line.
FFS
If you have to make a cheap meme, at least get it right:
Democracy is a form of Republic.
Republic means Res Publica: a public matter. (from Latin, the Roman empire was a republic, but not what we today think of as a democracy)
Democracy means: the people govern (From Greek, where it was kind of invented…)
Democracies and Republics are two different – but related – things.
Democracy is about how decisions are made.
Republic is about how the government claims legitimacy.
It makes sense for the two to go together, but things can be either, both, or neither. Norway is a democracy but not a republic: China is a republic but not a democracy. Indeed, we get the idea of a republic from Rome, which very specifically was not a democracy.
Saying “we’re a republic not a democracy” is like saying “it’s not a coupe, it’s a Ford”.
Whenever I hear someone say “wE’Re nOT a dEMOcrAcY, We’RE a rePUbLic!”, I automatically assume that they actually hate America and wished to go back to being an independent state.
They hate republicanism as well. They want a fascist do
“Republic” means “not a monarchy.” A republic can be a democracy or not a democracy. If they want a republic that is not a democracy, your options include Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
The palpetine party
Because they have a poor leader who is complete opposite of any villain in MCU (aka fascist)
republic (n.)
“state in which supreme or executive power rests in the people via representatives chosen by citizens entitled to vote,” c. 1600, from French république(15c.), from Latin respublica (ablative republica) “the common weal, a commonwealth, state, republic,” literally res publica “public interest, the state,” from res “affair, matter, thing” (see re) + publica, fem. of publicus “public” (see public (adj.)).
Arguing with republicans is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn’t understand anything and will shit everywhere. Spare yourself the aggravation
Presidential Constitutional Federal Liberal Democratic Republic