Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "These Trump supporters say US isn’t a democracy. And they’re okay with it" video.

  1. Conservatives today rely on political institutions that brazenly undercut majority rule. The Senate, the courts, the Electoral College — all provide conservatives with structural advantages at the expense of the many. But the Right isn’t content to sit back and cash in on the tilted playing field. It actively labors to restrict voting rights, skew the census, gerrymander districts, and generally increase the sway of the country’s most anti-majoritarian institutions. When confronted with criticism, they resort to the nonsensical argument that “we’re a republic, not a democracy.”
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  2. Free speech rights, civil rights, and other protections are essential to a flourishing democracy. But conservatives’ contempt for majority rule does not spring from a concern for a beleaguered minority (unless you think big business qualifies as an oppressed group). The truth is, the Right doesn’t expect a majority of Americans to support their policies, nor do they particularly care.. To defeat conservatism today, the main thing we have to do is to explain what it is, and what is wrong with it.  Q: What is conservatism? A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy. Q: What is wrong with conservatism? A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception, and has no place in the modern world.. The origins of the term Liberal  traces back to the Latin word liber (meaning “free”), which is also the root of the word "liberty "("the quality or state of being free"). Conservative: tending to preserve or protect, preservative, having the power to keep whole or safe," from Old French conservatif, from Medieval Latin conservativus, from Latin conservatus, past participle of conservare "to keep, preserve, keep intact, guard. In other words, to maintain and protect the status quo, and the establishment..
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  3. ​ @ChappySinclair  Our civil rights enshrined in our Constitution is what makes us a democracy. North Korea is a republic. But it's not a democratic republic.
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  4. ​ @ChappySinclair  😂😂 Hilarious.
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