DominatorX1 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 20 days agoWhich do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?message-squaremessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down172
arrow-up1-64arrow-down1message-squareWhich do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?DominatorX1 to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 20 days agomessage-square65linkfedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-218 days agoMisinformed. The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence. In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr= “we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us” “You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.” Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?
minus-squaredaggermoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·18 days agoFrom Wikipedia: “Historians have frequently interpreted Federalist No. 10 to imply that the Founding Fathers of the United States intended the government to be nonpartisan.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy?wprov=sfla1 I’m not reading all of that btw.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-217 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)
Misinformed.
The founding fathers of the USA never mentioned democracy in the constitution nor declaration of independence.
In their writings, they only ever used the word as a pejorative: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=democracy&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=
“we are not so absurd as to “design a Democracy,” of which the Governor is pleased to accuse us”
“You would have torn up the Foundations and demolished the whole Fabrick of the Government, and have suffered Democracy… to have arisen in its Place.”
Are those the founding fathers you’re talking about?
From Wikipedia: “Historians have frequently interpreted Federalist No. 10 to imply that the Founding Fathers of the United States intended the government to be nonpartisan.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan_democracy?wprov=sfla1
I’m not reading all of that btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYfQT35_38 (just listen to the first two minutes if you’re lazy)