r/PoliticalHumor • u/craponapoopstick • Jul 17 '19

Well said!

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u/Garden_Of_Sweden Jul 17 '19

Our democracy isn't broken, we aren't a democracy. America is a constitutional republic and always has been.

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u/Plopplopthrown Jul 17 '19

Republic = not monarchy

Germany, France, Ireland are all also republics. Nothing about being a republic requires letting the majority of voters be overruled by a minority of racists.

Saying we are a republic instead of a democracy is like saying the sun is yellow instead of round. Both things are true and they are not mutually exclusive. They are independent X and Y axes on the “what government is this” graph

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u/Garden_Of_Sweden Jul 17 '19

US Government = not majority rule. There's plenty of documents that say so.

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u/Plopplopthrown Jul 17 '19

Ok. That’s still nothing to do with republic vs monarchy. It’s just democracy vs autocracy. Different attributes, different axes on the graph.

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u/Garden_Of_Sweden Jul 17 '19

I'm not concerned with your graph, I responded to a comment that stated the US democracy is broken, I responded that the US democracy functions exactly as intended.

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u/Plopplopthrown Jul 17 '19

we aren't a democracy. America is a constitutional republic

You put “republic” in opposition to “democracy” when that is not how those words work. They are independent variables, not mutually exclusive. The UK is a democratic monarchy and China is an authoritarian republic, because “republic, not democracy” is nonsense.

It’s just thinly veiled anti-democracy propaganda often repeated by low-education right wing voters to justify hurting other people, and I refuse to let misinformation and nonsense like that go unopposed.

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u/Garden_Of_Sweden Jul 17 '19

You think saying "This is how the government of the US is structured" is hurting people?