NO DEMOCRATS

@Heartlander Good idea. Plenty of empty space in Siberia if y'all want to move

And the American population isn't on board with this shìt. People are protesting all over the country, not just DC

@Elessar

If crowd sizes are used as measures of nationwide support I guess I should point out that in the 1968 election cycle, George Wallace drew the largest crowds.

@Heartlander lolz one thing is comparing one crowd to another and one thing is comparing it to an empty desert.

Only a matter of time before Elon will spill the beans and we'll have confirmation directly from the source on how this last election was "won".

@ViciDraco Re read your history books .. Democrats supported slavery .. Lincoln was a Republican ..

@BrandNewMan I'm quite familiar. Northern democrats tended to be anti-slavery and southern republicans weren't very keen on civil rights. It was a north/south divide not a party line divide. It just happened that democrats were a majority party in the south at the time.

But please, keep oversimplifying history so you can use it to twist your narratives.

@ViciDraco Seems more your line given the preponderance of facts.

There are always exceptions .. but the south was overwhelmingly composed of Democrats, the larger portion than the Northern Democrat faction which was further split pro-war and pro-slavery - so even a meaningful portion of Northern democrats were proslavery. Free states were overwhelmingly Republican led and Republican voters.

For all practical purposes in actual effect .. pretty much as I stated




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@SunshineGirl I do not define rich as socialism

@MasterLee Then what do you define it as? Or why do you think USA is not the richest country on earth?

@Pherick No they didn’t. Go through the list of signatures on the Soutgern Manifesto and count the names that jumped parties. 95%+ lived out their lives as Democrats, had federal office building named after them. At least one was even awarded the Medal of Freedom.

@SunshineGirl

“Scared of democracy” brings up an old memory.

I grew up in the U S segregated south, in the years when the Eisenhower courts were cancelling Democrat laws that prohibited Black Americans from voting. To circumvent Black American’s right to vote Democrats then devised a voter qualification test that had to first be administered and passed for the right to vote. It was a simple 5 or so trick question that had to all be answered correctly before being added to the voter registration.

I remember taking the test when first registering to vote. Before I answered the questions one by one, the person administration the test gave me the answers to make sure I passed, she even admitted they were trick questions designed to keep “Negros” from voting.

I remember asking myself the same question “why are Democrats so afraid of Democracy?” , and the answer was pretty obvious, they were afraid that Black Americans would vote for Eisenhower. Democracy only worked for Democrats if the voters could be counted on to vote Democrat.

@Heartlander This was when? 60 or more years ago? You must recognise that this is a world apart from current day politics. The only thing that modern Democrats have with the segregation era party is a name. They returned the first ever black president so clearly they do not hold those same views now.

What alarms me is the title of your post. You may well think that the opposition is ethically and politically deficient, but that is all the more reason to test your ideas on the debating stump and at the polling station. Imagining a polity without an effrctive opposition serms very dark and dystopian to me.

@wildbill83 I don't know why you Americans get so tied up with labels. We know that no modern state can or should emulate the ancient Greek cities. Society and ideas have developed over three millenia. A more modern interpretation of democracy is "government of the people, for the people, by the people", which I don't think many would find objectionable.