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narwhal@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Johnson: We're Not A Democracy, We're A "Biblical" Republic And Separation Of Church And State Isn't Real

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Johnson: We're Not A Democracy, We're A "Biblical" Republic And Separation Of Church And State Isn't Real

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narwhal@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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Johnson: We're Not A Democracy, We're A "Biblical" Republic And Separation Of Church And State Isn't Real - Joe.My.God.
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“You know, we don’t live in a democracy because a democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner. OK? It’s not just majority rule. It’s a constitutional republic. The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition of what a civil society is supposed to look like. What’s happened, Alex, …
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    Actually I am American I was just mistaken about the role Mitch McConnell played in the government I just know that he stepped down and this guy stepped back on, so I assumed this was Mitch McConnell’s successor. Obviously that was an error on my part

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      McConnell didn’t step down from anything.

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        I thought he was forced out because he had… dementia

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          We should only be so lucky.

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          That would be the correct decision, yes.

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      You’re confusing Mitch McConnell for Kevin McCarthy.

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        Yeah we got a little bit of a McDouble going on there

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      How do you confuse “Congressman” and, or “Representative” plus “speaker of the house” with “Senator” or “Senate Majority Leader”…?

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        I might have been smoking that pack.

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        Happens to me all the time; I’ve been white-guy blind for 10 years now. They all blend together to form the same pasty pink settler monstrosity in my head.

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