{"id":8487,"date":"2017-07-10T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2017-07-10T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T20:14:33","slug":"were-still-a-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/were-still-a-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re still a Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When did social media become the vehicle for the American polity to enforce compliance on the part of elected officials over their magisterial discretion? Oh, that\u2019s right. Never. America never became a direct democracy, informally or officially. We\u2019re still a Republic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We elect officials and thereby grant them a license to make governing decisions, for which they have magisterial immunity, for a period of time. At the end of that time we may re-elect them or put someone else into their office whom we like better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Still, the Left practice informal direct democracy as if they, the Left, are a co-equal, if not superior, branch of government with ministerial powers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the negative side, they riot, burn, loot, kill, slander, subvert, abuse, misrepresent, suppress, disenfranchise, deconstruct, and foster division, unboundedly, about anything, any person, and any policy they don\u2019t like. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On the positive side they promulgate unobtainable utopian visions to underpin all of the necessary negatives they must, regrettably, practice\u2014the \u201cbreak a few eggs\u201d part of their duality for the greater good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Locally, the Elbert County Left roam the county\u2019s meeting halls and offices on the lookout for any opportunity to inject, influence, aggravate, and impose their direction. When not physically engaging government, they publish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Their publications\u2014social media, local press\u2014usually construct a battle ground with social justice warriors defending all that is good and right in the world on the one hand, and the evil old guard polluters and environment destroyers on the other. They can find a morality play for a Leftist good guy and a conservative bad guy in any set of facts. And when short of facts, innuendo works just as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Leftist elite in Elbert County, a mere handful of zealots, sow more division and disinformation than they\u2019re worth. There is no greater good about these self-serving ideologues who look down upon the uneducated proles whom they must, regrettably, control.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did social media become the vehicle for the American polity to enforce compliance on the part of elected officials over their magisterial discretion? Oh, that\u2019s right. Never. America never became a direct democracy, informally or officially. We\u2019re still a Republic. 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