A resolution called for ending the ability to vote for U.S. senators. Instead, senators would get appointed by state legislatures, as it generally worked 110 years ago prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913.
“We are devolving into a democracy, because congressmen and senators are elected by the same pool,” was how one GOP delegate put it to the convention. “We do not want to be a democracy.”
One of the reasons that the 17th Amendment was passed was because so many State Legislatures were failing to send Senators that the Senate was getting hamstrung. Then there were States that sent two sets of Senators, one from each party, and the Senate had no way to distinguish which ones should be seated!
I’m sure those two things sound familiar to anyone whose been paying attention to US Politics for the last few years.
“Every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party, the principles of which we ardently oppose.”
That is some Olympic Games level mental gymnastics right there.
I wonder if they would freak out if glue instructions said “apply liberally”.
I’m pretty sure thats exactly the intent behind all these chuds blathering on about “um, akshually we have a Republic and not a democracy” are actually trying ti accomplish. Imagine some Brit arguing that they have a King and not a monarch 200 years ago.
So much of modern conservatism/Republicanism in the US is pure reactionary, “own the libs” thinking. If Democrats wanted to pass a resolution stating “puppies and kittens are cute,” they would be opposed merely on principle.
Holy shit. If this article is legitimate these people are morons. Luckily the governor, state, and house are all democratic controlled.
Jesus wept.
It must be exhausting to be a conservative.
A republic is a type of democracy.
So it’s really really stupid to be shitting on democracy if you want a republic.
But they don’t actually want a republic; they want an oligarchy in which society is reordered back into the hierarchies where they were unquestionably on top.
I’m so goddamn sick of the pseudo-intellectual talk-radio drivel spewed by brainwormed self-serving reactionaries being treated like it has any merit whatsoever (not by this article, just in general).
