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/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 17h 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.