Great posts guys!
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Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn Democracy.
It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often used by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, miscegenation, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.
-Westbrook Pegler 1951