1238 Hypocracy

A conservative parents’ group recently called on a school district to stop saying it was educating its students to ensure the “future of democracy”. The group says that a “democracy” relies solely on “majority rule” and is “the road to socialism”. The group’s leader says the US is a republic.
Technically, he’s correct about the republic thing. But isn’t a republic, as we practice it, a representative democracy?
You could say the senate is not directly representative of the numbers of the entire US population but they too get elected by the majority of folks in their state.
Whatever you call it, it looks like majority rule to me. My thesaurus uses “democracy” and “republic” as synonyms, so the parents’ group has no help in the Microsoft grammarcheck department.
Does it seem like people who shout “fascism” and “socialism” the loudest have no idea the words indicate opposite ends of the political spectrum? Maybe they should have paid more attention when they were in a school that was ensuring the future of democracy.
Why is it the loudest voices we hear from the open-carry gun-wielders and the socialist-warners come from the losers in the last election?
Or should I say sore losers?
They started buying guns the minute Obama was elected and drove themselves into this hysteria about oncoming socialism because the Democrats were in power.
Relax.
Obama never made any move to change gun control. The only thing that could provoke that is if one of the extra-wingnutty wingnuts starts firing on congress-people or federal buildings again.
The same federal buildings they were all for protecting when illegal-wiretapping-take-away-the-constitution Cheney and his ilk were in power.
Where did they stand on majority rule then?
Right. That’s when they were in the majority...
America, ya gotta love it.