re: #147 Sir John Barron

Yeah, I mean, I know we’re not a nation-wide town hall meeting ‘democracy’, if that’s what some wingnuts imply.

And even though a ‘republic’ implies ‘voting’, the “republic not a democracy” line probably has something to do with the desire to restrict voting.

As has been noted, it’s a Bircher thing from long ago, and they got it from some loony who wrote his own books about history and politics.