Considering that a functional example of a democracy is two wolfs and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch, I’m more interested in retaining and strengthening the republic bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers.
hogewash
Never pick a fight with a man who buys pixels by the terabyte.
For a society to promote justice, just laws defining protection and punishment must apply equally for every individual.
Effective implementation of law requires the use of force.
There is a difference between what a law says a person CANNOT do, and what a law says a person MUST do.
Communism and fascism are basically the same – a small group of self-anointed individuals dictating what the masses MUST do.
If force doesn’t line up with the wishes of the self-anointed, the self-anointed become irrelevant.