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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/scariest-tweet-ever-gop-senator-ripped-to-shreds-for-questioning-democracy/Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) tweeted out attacks on democratic elections from his self-isolation after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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Mike Lee
@SenMikeLee
The word democracy appears nowhere in the Constitution, perhaps because our form of government is not a democracy. Its a constitutional republic. To me it matters. It should matter to anyone who worries about the excessive accumulation of power in the hands of the few.
8:06 PM · Oct 7, 2020
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Mike Lee
@SenMikeLee
Were not a democracy.
8:34 PM · Oct 7, 2020
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Mike Lee
@SenMikeLee
Democracy isnt the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.
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and here is a refresher for those who say he is right:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ef34rbnU8AAJnPz?format=jpg&name=large
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He must resign, along with anyone in Congress or the White House, or the effing Court for that matter, who agrees with him.
/rant off.
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Wow, Mikey Lee, R-quarantine, speaks for all Republicans (and papa Pootey Poot) (Original Post)
deminks
Oct 2020
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Initech
(107,981 posts)1. Sheesh. And to think that was a throw away joke on the Simpsons.

zaj
(3,433 posts)2. Republics are all about the "accumulation of power in the hands of the few"
muntrv
(14,505 posts)3. Oh Mikey.....
