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Solly Mack

(96,753 posts)

2. Yes

Reply to JPK (Original post)

Wed May 10, 2017, 09:43 PM

May 2017

Democratic governments exist at the consent of the governed. Once government decides it exists in spite of the governed then it ceases to be a government of the people.

Republicans have long ago abandoned the thinking that America's government exists by the consent of the people.

They are indeed traitors to the very ideals of a government of/by/for the people.

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