{"id":459,"date":"2022-01-06T23:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T04:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T01:52:31","slug":"usa-is-a-republic-not-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/06\/usa-is-a-republic-not-a-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"USA is a Republic not a Democracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">U.S. Government:\u00a0 While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a <strong>constitutional federal republic<\/strong>. What does this mean? \u201cConstitutional\u201d refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extended Article on &#8220;What is a Republic&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ILfuVd\"><span class=\"hgKElc\"> Fascism is a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a <b>centralized autocratic government headed<\/b> by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extended Article on &#8220;Fascism&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that the people backing Trump or the Radicals [not Conservatives] realize what government they will have or their life style that will be reality if they follow through with electing Trump or some other Trumpian Wannabe.\u00a0 They will no longer be in a Democracy or Republic, but in a Fascist country run by radicals who are supporting white supremacist groups and out-of-control extremists. No one, including those who voted for it, will have any rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Government:\u00a0 While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic. What does this mean? \u201cConstitutional\u201d refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States. Extended Article on &#8220;What is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-commixion.rhsaas-org.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}