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Beebs52 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:

Bob78164 wrote: You don't seem to understand the historical meaning of what you're saying. The Founders used that phrase to distinguish the representative government they were forming from direct democracy, such as New England town meetings, where the entire populace votes directly on laws. No one ever thought it was a good idea to permanently empower a minority with enduring political control over a majority of the country.

If you look at dictatorships in recent years, you will find that most of them retain the form of a republican government and hold elections, albeit manipulating them through various means to achieve near-unanimous results in the ruling party's favor. Nazi Germany held Parliamentary elections in both 1936 and 1938. The Soviet Union held regular elections from 1937 until its breakup. Iraq under Saddam Hussein had several Parliamentary and presidential elections.

It's interesting that, in 2000, when the polls indicated that Bush might win the popular vote and Gore the electoral college, Republicans actually mapped out a strategy to try to get around that possibility.

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/21/it- ... s-in-2000/

You're cute, too.