Why is a Constitutional Republic more proper than a democracy?

[Into the Night]

Obviously not - since you don't even grasp the most basic terms.

He has already demonstrated he doesn't know the meaning of 'democracy', 'republic', 'oligarchy', 'dictatorship', or 'science'.

 

[Into the Night]

Yeah apparently she did take social security, if her secretary Cynthia Peikoff is to be believed, and in 2010 a journalist using FOIA found that there's a record in the SS offices of Ayn receiving $11,000 from Social Security. And her husband collected SS benefits until his death.

BTW, social security, according to the Ayn Rand Institute is a form of welfare: "In fact, Social Security is not insurance. It merely seizes income from working Americans and dispenses it to retirees, with a vague (but legally unenforceable) assurance that younger Americans will someday get to reach into the pockets of their kids and grandkids. We shouldn’t hide that fact with euphemisms. “Contributions” should be called “taxes.” “Benefits” should be called “handouts.” Social Security shouldn’t be described as “social insurance” but as welfare.

Obviously, you don't know what 'insurance' means either.

Getting back some of the taxes paid is not socialism. Redefinition fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

Sorry, sweetie, you aren't John Galt.

He never claimed he was, twit.

 

[Into the Night]

I said what I said and backed it up.

You cannot claim what he said as what you said. DON'T TRY TO DENY YOUR OWN POSTS, SYBIL!

I can't help it if you are unhappy. You are probably one of those frustrated losers who fancies himself to be John Galt.

DON'T GASLIGHT, SYBIL!

Well if you base your philosophy on denying a social safety net then you pretty much are OBLIGATED to not use said social safety net.

There is no choice, Sybil.

That's called HYPOCRISY.

We all know Ayn was a hypocrite but it isn't a virtue.

DON'T TRY REDEFINITIONS, SYBIL!

 

[Uncensored2008]

Sorry, sweetie, you aren't John Galt.

Never said I was. Your little lie was debunked 50 years ago.

Simply: If you force me to buy something against my will - that's immoral. My using the object you forced my to buy isn't hypocritical at all.

It wasn't my choice to buy it, but I DID buy it so I have every moral and legal right to use it.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I really doubt the States would give more representation of themselves then they already have.

Some states already have proportional allocation of Electors. It is something our Constitution leaves up to each state to decide.

Kind of like abortion - it isn't a federal issue.

 

[Kafka]

Never said I was. Your little lie was debunked 50 years ago.

So the Social Security office made up the record of her receiving $11,000 in benefits? Interesting.

Simply: If you force me to buy something against my will - that's immoral.

No it's not. Grow up. Learn how to live in a society.

My using the object you forced my to buy isn't hypocritical at all.

But it makes you a hypocrite if you made your living telling everyone it was evil.

It wasn't my choice to buy it, but I DID buy it so I have every moral and legal right to use it.

She didn't HAVE to come to America. She could have gone to some shithole without any social safety net. Then of course she wouldn't have had that great life, but at least she would be consistent with her "values" such as they were.

 

[Uncensored2008]

So the Social Security office made up the record of her receiving $11,000 in benefits? Interesting.

No one said that.

I understand you can't defend the lie you told/

No it's not. Grow up. Learn how to live in a society.

Yes, it is.

Free people decide for themselves what to spend their labor and time on.

But it makes you a hypocrite if you made your living telling everyone it was evil.

In what way?

It is evil to force people to purchase a product against their will. Once forced to buy the product it is both moral and legal to use said product.

If you enslave a man to work in the fields to grow corn and he objects to his enslavement, he is under no obligation to starve to death because he objects to how the food is grown through forced labor.

Your position is juvenile and illogical.

She didn't HAVE to come to America.

And?

She could have gone to some shithole without any social safety net. Then of course she wouldn't have had that great life, but at least she would be consistent with her "values" such as they were.

LOL

You are howling in anguish that Rand utterly destroyed the ethical and moral basis of Communism.

 

[Truth Detector]

You don't understand the US government or its history.

And Ayn Rand is a right wing goon.

You sad, pathetic, uneducated caricature of ignorance and stupidity. No wonder you vote Democrat. You really are that fucking dumb.

 

[Truth Detector]

I've read Ayn Rand. I understand her. Please tell me what I should understand about her.

 

[martin]

School children learn The United States is "a constitutional republic". So is Russia a constitutional republic, also North Korea and China, and virtually all countries that are no longer monarchies. Republics are what replaced monarchies. The degree to which a republic has a representative government if any is the question this thread seems to want to be about.

 

[Kafka]

No one said that.

I understand you can't defend the lie you told/

You need to re-read the last couple of posts. You seem to be lost.

It is evil to force people to purchase a product against their will. Once forced to buy the product it is both moral and legal to use said product.

If you hate modern society go live in a shithole country. It's that simple. If you think you can make it on your own with no help from anyone then you need to leave America.

Because right now you are one spoiled little whiner who gets ALL the advantages of other peoples' money while you whine about it.

If you REALLY believe in Rand's shit go to sub saharan Africa to a lawless failed state and see how great your life is.

Your position is juvenile and illogical.

No, unlike you I pay for the things I value and I don't bitch about it. I'm what's called an ADULT.

You are howling in anguish that Rand utterly destroyed the ethical and moral basis of Communism.

Rand destroyed nothing. What destroyed communism was America's ability to spend their incompetent asses into the ground.

Rand wanted all the ADVANTAGES of living in America but seemed to hate the REASON WHY AMERICA is worthwhile.

 

[Truth Detector]

Given it's current size and greatly expanded numbers of states and geography, the U.S. should probably do away with the 'winner take all' practices re the electoral college votes of many states, allow more Parties to form, and implement proportional representation, at the least. The two party monopoly is so corrupted and dysfunctional it is destroying the country. There is no method of limiting the power of either, even by voting, especially once the oligarchy implements such farces as the 'super-delegate rule' and other dishonest garbage. Doing away with the electoral college would be even better.

States decide how they want their electoral votes counted. No one is limiting how many parties want to run.

There are more than two parties in the US. Educate yourself. Oligarchy?

As a counter-balance voters should be required to pass literacy and civics tests. The latter could be divided up among local, state, and Federal tests, and voting privileges assigned to each category separately, for those who are only interested in, say , national policy and have no interest in local politics, for example. The time is long past not doing so; the Civil Rights Acts and Voting Rights Acts and integrated schools and universities have been in place for a long time now need to be sunsetted, as was originally intended.

Dumb ideas. If we had an educational establishment devoted to education and indoctrination, everyone who chose to cast a vote would be educated and literate. But Democrats don't want an educated electorate. They would never win.

 

[Yakuda]

You need to re-read the last couple of posts. You seem to be lost.



If you hate modern society go live in a shithole country. It's that simple. If you think you can make it on your own with no help from anyone then you need to leave America.

Because right now you are one spoiled little whiner who gets ALL the advantages of other peoples' money while you whine about it.

If you REALLY believe in Rand's shit go to sub saharan Africa to a lawless failed state and see how great your life is.



No, unlike you I pay for the things I value and I don't bitch about it. I'm what's called an ADULT.



Rand destroyed nothing. What destroyed communism was America's ability to spend their incompetent asses into the ground.

Rand wanted all the ADVANTAGES of living in America but seemed to hate the REASON WHY AMERICA is worthwhile.

Tell us why America is "worthwhile".

 

[Kafka]

Tell us why America is "worthwhile".

Oh sorry I didn't realize you didn't like America. My bad.

Why don't you go away?

 

[Truth Detector]

Democracy simply means that we are not a dictatorship. Republic means that we are not a monarchy. A modern Republilc is a form of government in which the head of state is a President.

There are Democratic Monarchies like the UK or Norway. There are Republcs that are not democratic: North Korea, China, ....

The modern concept of "democracy" was created by.... US. The U.S. and France were the main models for what is understood today by the term "Democracy"

We are a Democratic Constitutional Republic of States. Very different from any other form of "Republic" or "Democracy" in that our constitution does not give us any rights, those are believed to be inherent, but rather, limits what BIG Government can do and protects those presumed inherent rights.

I wish our leftist educational establishment would educate instead of indoctrinate.

 

[Yakuda]

Oh sorry I didn't realize you didn't like America. My bad.

Why don't you go away?

So you can't tell us what makes America "worthwhile"?

 

[Kafka]

So you can't tell us what makes America "worthwhile"?

Do I have to??? Wow. Seriously dude if you fuckin' hate the US so badly why do stay here and make it bad for the rest of us with your bullshit?

 

[Truth Detector]

Yeah apparently she did take social security, if her secretary Cynthia Peikoff is to be believed, and in 2010 a journalist using FOIA found that there's a record in the SS offices of Ayn receiving $11,000 from Social Security. And her husband collected SS benefits until his death.

BTW, social security, according to the Ayn Rand Institute is a form of welfare: "In fact, Social Security is not insurance. It merely seizes income from working Americans and dispenses it to retirees, with a vague (but legally unenforceable) assurance that younger Americans will someday get to reach into the pockets of their kids and grandkids. We shouldn’t hide that fact with euphemisms. “Contributions” should be called “taxes.” “Benefits” should be called “handouts.” Social Security shouldn’t be described as “social insurance” but as welfare.

Why shouldn't she take it, the money came out of her pocket involuntarily.

 

[Truth Detector]

Do I have to??? Wow. Seriously dude if you fuckin' hate the US so badly why do stay here and make it bad for the rest of us with your bullshit?

Irony from someone who will cast a vote for Comrade Kamala. Democrats really hate everything American.