DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 days agoWhich do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?message-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down169
arrow-up1-61arrow-down1message-squareWhich do you prefer, democracy or dictatorship?DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 days agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-22 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-down3·2 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-224 hours 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)