Rick Santorum says the quiet part out loud

[Bluesaph]

“Pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1722092355770016036?s=46

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. Follows the basic claim by Mike Lee about "rank" democracy.

"We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that,” Lee writes

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21507713/mike-lee-democracy-republic-trump-2020

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. The fall of our status as a democracy is the Republican agenda.

Their goal is a large, uneducated underclass of "worker bees".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/24/us-world-democracy-rankings-freedom-house-new-low

[William Seger]

6. "We want the human condition to flourish" translated

The essence of reactionary "conservatism" is that society is forever sliding downhill and will go over the cliff unless authoritarian father-figures slam on the brakes by defending the status quo. Lee is right: democracy can "thwart" that kind of "flourishing" and instead actually improve the human condition. That was the original meaning of "progressive," and it still holds.

[Cha]

3. Fuck Off Fascist..

"blah people" santorum.

[J_William_Ryan]

4. Pure democracy is the way to defeat the tyranny of

Republican minority rule.

[William Seger]

5. Fun fact: Whoever has political power will use it to their own advantage

This is why autocrats and plutocrats hate democracy.

[hatrack]

7. And America's been a pure democracy since, oh the 12th of Never . . . .

Good to see that Rick can still spread the Santorum!!

[Emile]

8. The last thing republicans want is to represent

the will of their constituents!

[werdna]

9. I'm not sure too many people are advocating for a "pure Democracy" -

_ most Democratic politicians, pundits and generally support the Democratic Republic our founders organized in the instrument known as the U.S. Constitution.

[Bluesaph]

10. Rather than represent what the people actually want

They prefer to prevent the people from exercising their right to obtain it.