Mike Luckovich for October 24, 2021

If they had they way, neither would anything else.

America isn’t a democracy and never was. It’s a constitutional federal republic. Maybe if Americans would take a civics class and actually learn something, they’d know that.

No, because we’re supposed to insure it. Vote on 2 November.

One of our Founding Fathers, Franklin, maybe, said it. ‘We have given you a Republic, but can you keep it?’.

The US is a constitutional quasi-democratic republic with a politically popularized faction promoting states’ rights over a federal government. Engineered elections — gerrymandering, limiting access, etc — in individual states demonstrate the lack of federal control as does the decades of dysfunctional Congresses which weakens the republic.

Republicans want a right wing dictator, not democracy.

I’m sure it might be covered under my accidental death and dismemberment policy if I’m dead or lose one thumb, a toe , voting rights, etc . . .

Like my friend Joel commented before he died, “Looks like we’ll be checking out about the right time…”

Democracy.. like the climate, changes over time.

You can’t legislate against ignorance!

Arguing about the precise definition of democracy – certified – guaranteed – legally binding – double rectified and busthead true – adds nothing to the point being made, serving only as a shameful distraction from the critical problem now at hand.

The ideal that all U.S. citizens are equal, with identical rights, and with equal say at the polls – regardless of rich or poor, newly sworn or Mayflower ancestored, race-creed-color, etc – is under direct attack. By Republicans.

Should that most precious of all American ideals fall, there is no insurance that will redeem our loss.

Times change. Trying to stop America at rich white ‘o clock by destroying the one truly worthy ideal we have is insane. The Constitution, via our courts, can help prevent this, but mostly it’s up to the people. Vote.

I forgot that part of my civic class 60 years ago! Insurance companies always have loop holes.

people get off your ass and be a participating citizen

OUCH! Who is playing the fiddle now?

From Merriam-Webster.com:

 democracy noun

1a : government by the people especially : rule of the majority

1b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

 republic noun

1a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president

  (2) : a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government

1b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law

  (2) : a political unit (such as a nation) having such a form of government

Insurance is what you pay for but hope never to have to use. Prevention is always preferable to cure.

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MontanaBullshit does indeed LIE

Insurance can’t stop bad things from physically happening – democracy and freedom are things that one constantly must fight for…

Extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election subversion. And it’s all right out in the open because they know dems will do nothing to stop them.

We need to ensure that it works for us.