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I’m writing as someone who was born and raised in Maine. I feel that the much-revered democracy is a fallacy. All the politicians and shrill know-it-alls claim we have this wonderful democracy that is being destroyed by all who disagree with them. The last time I checked, guess what I found. We still have a republic in the United States. At least, for the moment.
Benjamin Franklin’s reply to a lady who asked him, “What have you given us Mr. Franklin?” was this: “A republic, if you can keep it.” With all those shrill cries for a democracy from people who don’t know what a democracy really is, we may actually lose what our founders gave us. There has never been a successful democracy in history or a successful communist country. For the same reasons.
Bud Simpson
Logan, Ohio