By Ed Randazzo
Many don’t understand the difference between a democracy and republic….we are a republic. Click on the link below and view the video which explains the difference.
www.youtube.com/embed/H8I9pLmuyyA“
AMERICA…….THE REPUBLIC
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See? You keep hiding so proudly behind your special shibboleth understanding of history, but you fail to show how this quibble has any impact on our daily political life. If I agree with you that we are a republic and not a democracy, how does that affect one single issue in conducting the affairs of state?
The video presentation is educational as to the forms of government and their consequences. However, the relevence is to warn those who support the growth and ever-increasing size and scope of government, such as we seen recently, is that continued unchecked it leads to tyranny of the elite.
I saw a classic example of this type of semantics on a recent Bill Maher sound-bite. He said instead of the tea party slogan “take our country back,” his party would like to “take our country forward.” It’s all word games really. We are the U.S.A. We’re all Americans regardless of whether we view our country as a democracy or a republic, and if we don’t abandon our current good vs. evil partisanship philosophy effecting any real change and progress is going to be difficult.
People play the same word games with “Christian nation,” “nation of Christians,” and so on. Thankfully we have the U.S. Supreme Court to reel in extremists on all sides. Maybe we’re a democratic republic, that’s closer to the center, where the truth is usually found.
The truth is found where the truth is. Truth is truth. It is not relative. There’s no maybe about it. The United States of America are a republic.
The “truth” can change with time. So can morals, both are subjective. If we the people decide we want to ammend the Constitution for example, or that a type of behavior is now acceptable despiote past generations declaring it was “immoral” it then becomes “moral.” Slavery is a fine example of that. Our Founders owned slaves. Then slavery was abolished and it was both “immoral” and illegal to own slaves.
The earth was scientifically proven to be flat at one time. We now know different. Virtually eveything is subjective. The Christian Bible certainly is. Before the Roman Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity as the state’s religion, and used his power to discard scripture he didn’t agree with, and choose scripture he liked from scores of different sects of early Christianity, there was no Bible containing the “truth.”
Truth NEVER changes. Morality NEVER changes. Slavery was NEVER moral. Just because the founders owned slaves did not make it moral and when slavery was abolished it was not made immoral. The Bible is the the word of God. The truth is ALWAYS the truth, it doesn’t change. No matter how much you want it to change or pronounce that it has changed, it has not. Your slimy, wishy-washy, ever-changing-to-fit-your-wants-morality is not morality at all but your self-centered wants.
The moral”truth” is man made. It varies in differing societies all around the globe. It varies from religion to religion. The “truth” is it’s morally acceptable for gays to be Pastors in the Lutheran denomination. The “truth” is it’s forbidden in the Catholic faith.
Jews are much more progressive than Christian fundamentalists. You guys were wrong about the Messiah, and your wrong about literally interpretting our Tanakh, and your Christian (New Testament) addition to our sacred book. God’s chosen people are used to dealing with the inflexible and erroneous ways of the Gentiles. We’ve been doing it for centuries.
The truth has nothing to do with interpretation or religious denominations.
Got it. So it’s the “truth” us Jews are God’s chosen people then?
So it is written.
Democratic republic, republican democracy… your obsession with word games has yet to demonstrate any practical policy solutions. Tell me how this quibble balances the state budget. Tell me how this argument paves roads. Tell how this argument has any substantive impact on the deliberations of our legislators. The video you link certainly doesn’t. Give it to me in your own words.
The piece merely explains the forms of government that many do not understand. I’m sorry if the video didn’t pave your road or balance your budget.
Funny how only fundamentalists claim they understand some things. I guess it’s because they think God is on their side, so they believe God is on their side. Nothing could be further from the truth.
God is on the side of truth and righteousness. He is not on anyone’s side. It is up to you to be on His side.