NYcarbineer
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A Republic and a Democracy are two separate Forms of Government. You can start with Plato and Cicero, and work your way through two thousand years of the following legal development of thought, and through the Enlightenment. There are dozens of great minds throughout the Enlightenment who adored the Republic and abhorred Democracy.
When someone like you starts namedropping Plato, I can't help but laugh out loud.
Madison in Federalist 14 summed up the material difference between democracy and republic:
"in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents."
...and that's about it, the nonsense of the rightwing nuts notwithstanding.
You should read this, but you won't:
Madison?s Defintion(s) of Republic
So you're using a "one-liner" to obliterate the entire foundation of the Enlightenment and the ancient schools of thought from which it derived.
That's Progress!
We've established that conservatives like you want an oligarchy. You want a small percentage of the population to be able to vote in elections that will put a much smaller portion of the population in control.
You want to disenfranchise a portion of what you call the mob; you want them to be stripped of all power.
Why don't you tell us who in the mob you want to disenfranchise?