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Now, a question to you. Has the Trump Administration met any of these conditions or has he actively tried to dismantle them? If he's working to dismantle them, he's working to dismantle our republic.
August 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
4. Reformative Condition - In the event that any of the above conditions are under threat, the Republic provides mechanisms to establish reforms to re-establish and maintain the other three conditions.
August 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
3. Elite Compromise Condition - Politicians are able to make compromises even if their constituents strongly disagree. Politicians should see little to gain from obstruction for the sake of obstruction. There is a shared commitment to government functionality, not government disfunction.
August 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
2. Civic Virtue Condition - Public service is worthwhile for the betterment of the public good and not for personal gains or material wealth. The common good must be part of the ethics of the elite.
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
1. Rule of Law Condition - Law constrains and governs the use of force by the government on the governed. Legal authority limits the threat of raw political power made through violence.
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
There are four fundamental conditions for a successful republic. These conditions must be met for the republic to survive. Every successful republic since Rome has met them, including the United States of America. They are:
August 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Damn straight!!
August 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The Trump’s oath of office language is specific: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'
Trump argued that fulfilling his promise to rapidly carry out mass deportations may take precedence over giving immigrants the right to due process.
www.yahoo.com
May 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Who'd believe with the way things are here?
We'd be goin' anywhere telling people how to live
Who'd believe we'd spend more shippin' drugs and guns than to educate our sons?
Sorry, but that's what they did
March 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Serial killers have no empathy. Cult leaders (like Trump) have no empathy. Dictators have no empathy.

But doctors have it. Teachers have it. Caregivers have it. All caring people have it. Selfish people do not.

History is filled with terrible things caused by people with no empathy.
March 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
You know. I think that’s the key to things. This country has lost all sense of empathy. And that is a sign of societal psychopathy.
March 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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