Thanks Thom for pointing this out. It's a meme that has confused me in the past.
RE: "Rockefeller continued, taking on the crowd, “which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth. Precisely one year ago today, on July 14, 1963, I warned that the Republican Party is in real danger of…
Thanks Thom for pointing this out. It's a meme that has confused me in the past.
RE: "Rockefeller continued, taking on the crowd, “which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth. Precisely one year ago today, on July 14, 1963, I warned that the Republican Party is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed and highly disciplined minority. The methods of these extremist elements I have experienced at first hand.”"
What Rockefeller "experienced first hand" is also what John Deam experienced and lead to his book titled Conservatives Without Conscience. Dean was under attack by his own party members and he decided to figure out why and then documented his findings that included the works of Professor Robert Altemeyer on right-wing authoritarians.
"Conservatives w/o Conscience" saved my sanity along the way. It is so weird and painful when highly educated people you're accustomed to love and trust think WHAT? And turn on you at the slightest quibble. Now what "they" believe is so detached from reality, it's a whole new level in history, I fear. Bad enough, for instance: "The U.N. is as Jewish as Coney Island." a Bircher meme from the 60's But what the heck can you do with ground up babies in the vaccine, etc.? I imagine some of the malicious Pied Pipers are gasping with incredulous glee at what is getting swallowed hook, line and suicide, as they toy with what's the most impossible and harmful tidbit they can put out next, just because they can, and there seem to be no limits.
I think the meanings of “democracy” and “republic” are as misunderstood as the unintelligible 2nd Amendment. Based upon the things I’ve learned from Thom over the years, I would like to offer yet another way to look at what is a “republic” and what is a “democracy,” as well some of the “so what” of it. I think that we can regard our republic to be the organizational structure and processes for decision-making in our representational democracy, and our “democracy” determines how we employ the republic’s infrastructure and decision-makers to meet their constitutional purpose based upon the rule of the people. A republic can be democratic, autocratic, plutocratic, or, in the case of the Trump years, run by kakistocratic grifters (where incompetence meets corruption). Regardless of their labels, they are all just terms for those who might rule our republic kind of government. In our democracy, our citizens are supposed to have equal rights to choose, support, and collaborate with our elected decision-makers, and from that collaboration, our elected leaders get to decide how to best promote our general welfare. You could say that the purpose of our republic is to deliver democracy to our fellow citizens.
Thanks Thom for pointing this out. It's a meme that has confused me in the past.
RE: "Rockefeller continued, taking on the crowd, “which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth. Precisely one year ago today, on July 14, 1963, I warned that the Republican Party is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed and highly disciplined minority. The methods of these extremist elements I have experienced at first hand.”"
What Rockefeller "experienced first hand" is also what John Deam experienced and lead to his book titled Conservatives Without Conscience. Dean was under attack by his own party members and he decided to figure out why and then documented his findings that included the works of Professor Robert Altemeyer on right-wing authoritarians.
"Conservatives w/o Conscience" saved my sanity along the way. It is so weird and painful when highly educated people you're accustomed to love and trust think WHAT? And turn on you at the slightest quibble. Now what "they" believe is so detached from reality, it's a whole new level in history, I fear. Bad enough, for instance: "The U.N. is as Jewish as Coney Island." a Bircher meme from the 60's But what the heck can you do with ground up babies in the vaccine, etc.? I imagine some of the malicious Pied Pipers are gasping with incredulous glee at what is getting swallowed hook, line and suicide, as they toy with what's the most impossible and harmful tidbit they can put out next, just because they can, and there seem to be no limits.
I think the meanings of “democracy” and “republic” are as misunderstood as the unintelligible 2nd Amendment. Based upon the things I’ve learned from Thom over the years, I would like to offer yet another way to look at what is a “republic” and what is a “democracy,” as well some of the “so what” of it. I think that we can regard our republic to be the organizational structure and processes for decision-making in our representational democracy, and our “democracy” determines how we employ the republic’s infrastructure and decision-makers to meet their constitutional purpose based upon the rule of the people. A republic can be democratic, autocratic, plutocratic, or, in the case of the Trump years, run by kakistocratic grifters (where incompetence meets corruption). Regardless of their labels, they are all just terms for those who might rule our republic kind of government. In our democracy, our citizens are supposed to have equal rights to choose, support, and collaborate with our elected decision-makers, and from that collaboration, our elected leaders get to decide how to best promote our general welfare. You could say that the purpose of our republic is to deliver democracy to our fellow citizens.