Tucker: Democrats think "our democracy" is this fragile

America is not now and never has been a democracy. We are and always have been a Constitutional Republic since July 4th, 1776; yet the far left has falsely indoctrinated the millennial generation into believing we are a a pure democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. This my friends, represents the "dumbing down of America," which has it roots in the covertly communist Progressive movement.Show more

Republicanism stresses liberty and inalienable rights as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent in their performance of civic duties, and vilifies corruption.

Most significant difference from Democracy;

Republicanism asserts that people have unalienable rights that cannot be voted away by a majority of voters; it is rule rooted in laws.

A republic implicitly contains the element that we would call democracy, but it is understood that the US is a representative democracy, in which the people choose representatives who in turn decide the issues of the day in competition with other branches of the government and in accordance with the law.

Governance, in other words, has a basis in the people but is removed from the mob.

The purpose of a Republic is to control the majority.
Representatives are chosen and they meet to exercise
government; this can be done over a wider territory.

So one might say that the Republic lengthens the distance between the decision and the mob, relative to a Democracy.

(By contrast, in a dictatorship, there is no distance at all: the mob is completely cut out from the decision)

America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy
by Bernard Dobski, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Simon Center for American Studies

America is a Republic and not a pure Democracy. The contemporary efforts to weaken our republican customs and institutions in the name of greater equality thus run against the efforts by America’s Founders to defend our country from the potential excesses of democratic majorities. American republicanism and the ordered liberty it makes possible are grounded in the Federalists’ recognition that non-majoritarian parts of the community make legitimate contributions to the community’s welfare, and that preserving these contributions is the hallmark of political justice. But, the careful balance produced by our mixed republic is threatened by an egalitarianism that undermines the social, familial, religious, and economic distinctions and inequalities that undergird our political liberty. Preserving the republican freedoms we cherish requires tempering egalitarian zeal and moderating the hope for a perfectly just democracy.

Contrary to popular belief, America is not, nor was it meant to be, a pure democracy. America is a republic. Nevertheless, more and more voices today are calling for America to become a direct democracy.

More on this topic: https://www.heritage.org/american-founders/report/america-republic-not-democracy

See also:
Why America is a Republic, not a Democracy
https://youtu.be/ygEEL57AcZs

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