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Originally Posted by miss_silver
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Originally Posted by Mazer
but is that any way for a republic to behave?
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Yes it is. Somehow I just heard the very faint echo of Lincoln words ... and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Now that is a republic. |
A republic is a small group of people that governs the rest of the population with the mandate of that population. We have democratic elections but that does not make us a democracy, and because we are not a democracy our government should not flip flop in response to public opinion polls. A republic that pretends to be a democracy is having a crisis of identity and needs to get its act together. It needs representatives who stick to the promises that got them elected in the first place.
Lincoln was a Republican, by the way. He would not have approved of our leaders consulting opinion polls after they were elected.