Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 01, 2008
Transcript:
Alice: Lookit this! Petey: "Come join the Cul de Sac Fourth of July Parade!!! Friday at Noon on Cul de Sac Avenue!!!" Alice: Daddy's going to decorate my tricycle so I can be in it. I'll be Queen of Fourth of July! Petey: You can't be Queen of Fourth of July! We're a democracy. Alice: I'll be Queen of Democracy! Petey: You make me shudder.
Petey said, “We’re a democracy”. Where does he live? Not the USA. We are NOT a democracy! Never have been. We are a representative republic! We elect people to make our decisions for us. We don’t make them! And in our pledge of allegiance, we don’t say, “And to the democracy for which it stands”. No, we say that we, “Pledge allegiance to the REPUBLIC for which it stands”.