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Lauren Boebert Walks Into A Massive Self-Own When She Tries To Give Americans A Civics Lesson

If you thought you’d seen and heard all of the laughable ignorance that can possibly come from Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, she outdid herself today, and it resulted in one of the most humiliating (and hilarious) self-owns you’ll ever encounter.

For some reason, Boebert decided that she’d offer a lesson in civics to everyone on Twitter, posting this:

“This is your daily reminder that America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.”

Is Boebert right? Nope.

Yes, we are indeed a Constitutional Republic, but if we weren’t also a democracy, then what would be the point of the republic?

As the Washington Post rightly noted in a 2015 article:

The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.

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To be sure, in addition to being a representative democracy, the United States is also a constitutional democracy, in which courts restrain in some measure the democratic will. And the United States is therefore also a constitutional republic. Indeed, the United States might be labeled a constitutional federal representative democracy. But where one word is used, with all the oversimplification that this necessary entails, “democracy” and “republic” both work. Indeed, since direct democracy — again, a government in which all or most laws are made by direct popular vote — would be impractical given the number and complexity of laws that pretty much any state or national government is expected to enact, it’s unsurprising that the qualifier “representative” would often be omitted. Practically speaking, representative democracy is the only democracy that’s around at any state or national level.

Long story short: The United States is a republic governed by the Constitution, but it’s also a democracy because we elect those who represent us to make the laws by which we’re all governed.

So Boebert is wrong yet again, which isn’t surprising when you consider that she needed multiple attempts before she passed the GED high school equivalency exam.

Twitter users couldn’t resist reminding the Colorado Republican that she had once again managed to prove her own ignorance.

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WATCH: Jamie Raskin Burns Republicans Down With Impassioned Speech About Democracy

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is truly an American treasure and one of the most important Democrats in the country. Why? Because he doesn’t take any bull and isn’t afraid to speak truth to power.

Raskin is especially eloquent when he discusses the perversion of American democracy that the Republican Party in the Age of Trump has engaged in for one purpose: Power.

The Maryland Democrat took to the House floor Wednesday and gave a speech that will go down in history as one of the best ever given by any member of Congress.

The topic of Congressman Raskin’s speech was today’s GOP, whom he excoriated for being anti-democratic, snuggled up with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, and enemies of democracy.

“America is a country of individual freedom and the rights of the people to make their own decisions, not having busy body theocrat politicians in state capitols how to make their own decisions about their careers, their lives, their families, and their healthcare, and certainly not allowing Lindsey Graham to tell the women of America what their destiny will be, and they won’t say a word about it.

“They’ll blame Joe Biden for global inflation. They’ll blame Joe Biden for Vladimir Putin’s filthy imperialist invasion of Russia (Ukraine). I hear them denounce Joe Biden.  They won’t denounce Vladimir Putin for one second.”

But it was what Raskin said next that all Americans need to hear before they cast a ballot in the midterm elections:

“We’re on the side of small ‘d’ democrats all over the world against the autocrats like Putin, against the theocrats like the people who would dictate to the women of America their own health decisions. We’re against the tyrants and bullies and the despots. We’re against presidents who get into office and try to dictate the political decision-making of individual members of the workforce and push their ideological program into the government, and we’re for defending whistleblowers. We’re for defending the Census. We’re for defending democratic institutions in America.”

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MAGA Voter Says She’s Sick And Tired Of All This Talk About ‘Democracy, Democracy, Democracy’

 

Proving yet again that all of their flag waving, scripture spouting, and endless rallies are nothing more than a cult, a panel of MAGA/Trump voters made it clear Sunday on “Face the Nation,” that they don’t give two hoots in hell about democracy or freedom. Instead, they just want their tangerine savior back in office, even if he wants to be the American Mussolini.

CBS News correspondent Major Garrett spoke with a panel of Trump voters and asked them about remarks made this week by President Joe Biden that the MAGA movement is “semi-fascist.”

A voter from Virginia named Mary remarked:

“Isn’t democracy arguing, debating? So if the precedent has been set that you can question elections — I mean, you can question everything in a democracy.”

She added:

“It’s getting — somebody like me who’s not a Republican or Democrat but I do support Trump — it’s getting really old hearing ‘democracy, democracy, democracy.’ Because what we’re doing is part of a democracy.”

Mary’s rant continued, and the more she spoke the more it became painfully obvious that the Trump faithful view the idea of democracy very differently than the rest of us:

“And the way Joe Biden is dividing and the Democrats use it as a weapon, the term democracy has become a weapon, and it just means that if you’re afraid that Republicans are a threat to democracy, what you’re telling me is you’re afraid Republicans are a threat to your power and your agenda. And so I think we need to go back and have a better understanding of what democracy actually is.”

Another member of the panel dismissed Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) prediction that there will be “rioting in the streets” if Trump is indicted for hoarding and mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Largo resort, explaining:

“If there was going to be any rioting in the streets it would be when the last election was stolen.”