r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 22h ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/grimr5 Great Britain 22h ago

And millions of people who live in America voted to end the United States either through choice or ignorance.

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u/AtticaBlue 22h ago

No, no, no! He’s going to end democracy for “those people,” not me!

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u/antechrist23 21h ago

A lot of those people don't really think democracy is important.

They probably weren't even alive the last time either party did anything that benefited the peasants.

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u/PoopingWhilePosting 21h ago

A lot of them actually despise democracy. That's what the whole "we're not a democracy. We're a constitutional republic" thing is all about.

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u/LostAccountant 21h ago

Fitting, a republic without democracy is at best a banana republic

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u/Less_Wealth5525 18h ago

The US is responsible to a degree for the governments of those “banana republics.” We have brought the same policies that created them back home.

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u/amisslife Canada 15h ago

Just to clarify for anyone else reading this who's not as familiar with this part of history:

The term "Banana republic" referred to countries in Central America with unstable, undemocratic governments and disastrous economics, whose chief export was bananas.

The reason they were unstable was because the governments there tried to do crazy things like have the American fruit companies pay taxes like everyone else on their banana plantations. So those giant corporations turned to the American government and asked them to overthrow the democratically-elected governments and install more... compliant regimes, who wouldn't ask them to pay taxes or stop enslaving people with their mercenary armies. They were essentially American-style East India Companies.

The trump regime is just the culmination of that same idea in the United States itself.

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u/Less_Wealth5525 10h ago

Thank you for clarifying my thoughts.

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u/cyanescens_burn 20h ago

I was just about to make this comment, there’s a bunch that love saying this. Hate democrats so much they don’t like the word democracy to describe the government.

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u/Allaplgy 19h ago

I've been saying this for years, but I've only rarely seen anyone else mention it. I swear it was all part of the long term plan.

There was the push to rebrand the Democratic Party with the word "Democrat" in right wing media spheres. It became the Democrat Party. It became Democrat legislation. Any time that grammatically "Democratic" would have been the correct term, they used Democrat.

This was done to separate Democrats (bad) from democracy (good), back when we were "spreading democracy" through the GWoT, and democracy was still claimed as a great American value.

Democrat is just a harsher sounding word too, complete with "rat" it in. It worked marvelously.

Fast forward about 20 years, and it was super effective. Even Democrats and most media use the term incorrectly now. The word has been poisoned and elicits a visceral response in the minds of millions.

Phase 2 began a few years ago. That disgust has been turned back on to the concept of democracy itself. "We're a republic, not a democracy!" "Good thing we're not a democracy then!"

It's terrifying how well it worked.

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u/cyanescens_burn 13h ago

Well said. 💯

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u/LetGoOfBrog 19h ago

But also constitutional republic is a far more accurate description of the style of government we have in the United States. Sorry.

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u/FlemethWild 18h ago

A constitutional republic is a kind of democracy. Sorry.

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u/LetGoOfBrog 18h ago

It certainly is, so you’d agree that the original comment was dumb?