Russ Feingold to Help Republicans Move on To Stage 2: Anger

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Originally Posted by miss_silver

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.