Trying to Figure Out what makes @TheDemocrats think They "Rule" the Country, I can only Find #Kwo- | @MSNBC @VOXdotcom @FoxNews @AJplus @_SecondThought @conureCC @TheYoungTurks @SamSeder @BillMaher

I'm a fan of #MSNBC (which has that name because--maybe it's obvious, but I didn't know until Wiktionary told me just now--it was actually co-founded by Microsoft & the National Broadcasting Company ... kinda like when you realize that CBS is just a division (well, the flagship division) of Paramount Global)

... but they keep talking about Democracy as they discuss Politics, as if they are the same thing! (They're not ... well, not exactly)

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"Politics" has been warped into meaning 'elected-officials behaviors that influence our decision to vote for them (or not).' 'Our voting for the officials (and their persistence in behaving the way their voters want them to)' is what MSNBC calls "Democracy," but Democracy is also 'people's continued support of one business over another' and 'people's agreement to obey the law' etc.

That becomes important because Our Government--at least 'where the rubber meets the road' (i.e. when officers approve of new laws or -Constitutional amendments etc.)--is not a Democracy. The people in office can choose to follow The Will of the People, but that's not their job. Their job is to be the Re-Public ... we voted for them because (we believe) they think like we do, and so their government-decisions (we believe) will be the same ones we would make in their position.

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The proto-word “*Kwo-” (a 'phoneme' deep below the word "Democracy") is the stem of Relative- & Interrogative Pronouns, influencing the words "Cheese "a Big Thing;" |cue "Stage Direction;" Either; |hidalgo; How; |kickshaw; Neither; |neuter; |qua; Quality; |quandary; |quantity; |quasar; |quasi; |quasi-; Query; |quib; |quibble; |quiddity; |quidnunc; Quip; |quodlibet; |quondam; |quorum; Quote; |quotidian; |quotient; |ubi; |ubiquity; What; When; |whence; Where; Whether; Which; |whither; Who; Whoever; Whom; Whose; Why, in what |Respect, to what Extent, which Way."

just like #Kwi-

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Still trying to figure out 'what makes Republicans different from Democrats,' I stumbled onto this video which may explain things ...

I also found (but probably didn't 'watch' very intently)

• Why Republicans Don't Want a Democracy (thinking government-decisions are controlled by constituents' votes?)
  
• Why The US of A is Not a Democracy (sounds like it's mistaking "the government" for "the country")
  
• Republicans Hate Women (and the vid mentions more than just 'overturning "Roe v Wade"')
  
• Why Republicans & Democrats tend to Dislike each other - sort of like 'why Catholics & Protestants "tend to Dislike each other"'; not that either side "hates goodness & loves evil," but that each side thinks that's what the other side wants (oh, maybe not that plain-&-simple ... although my Democratic relatives do think "Republicans want to destroy the country"; and I'm sure my Republican relatives think "Democrats want Complete Anarchy!")
• Why Republicans Want to Tear the Country Apart - generally a question-&-answer session with a well-informed liberal
  
• Why the GOP hates The Poor
• Why the Republican Party is DOOMED
  
• The Republicans Are The Problem
  

Republican 'talking heads' frequently spout, "We are not 'a democracy,' we are 'a constitutional republic.'" I disagree; We are a democracy; 'the nation is overseen' by a constitutional republic (manned by the people we elect to represent us).

That's why we pledge allegiance "to the Republic." If we were "a Republic," we wouldn't need to affirm that allegiance. 

The Republicans who say that may sound a little hypocritical as they often say it from a position they won through a democratic vote. Our laws are passed by their (not our) decision, as the Re-Public.

The Republicans--I seem to recall--want a smaller government ... perhaps thinking that the true democracy is 'on the street' (i.e. what you do inside your house is your business (as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, of course); just like how you spend your money, the words you say, the food & drink you consume, the jobs you do)

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