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I did not know that republic had become a dog whistle. Central Europe is choc-a-bloc with federal republics. While there are separatist movements, the libertarian delusion seems not to be a problem.
Velshi: Your Power, As A Citizen, Scares The Far-Right. Your Vote Threatens Them.
64,991 views Aug 20, 2022 American Democracy has been on a steady decline. For years, we’ve been trying to make sense of it. How can one party seem to be so opposed to the single principle on which this nation was built. Here’s one school of thought: maybe it’s not that the far-right wants to tear democracy down. Maybe, they never believed in its existence in the first place. For decades, there’s been a misguided philosophy that America is not a democracy, but rather, a Republic. Here’s why that argument is disingenuous.
States’ rights have become the fighting word between unionists and the small-government proponents. Behind them is the still-living constellation of grievances that took us to and through civil war.
I have no idea how to fight this problem except at the retail level. The GOP has hardened into a libertarian faction, which is authoritarianism concealed in the bloody pelt of “we the people”.
So at the retail level, we need to cut off the protofascists from dogcatcher on up. I’m starting to pay attention to the small-time local contests. They are the farm team from which my kids will vote for Senators, governors, and the President.