Republicans!

Republicans!

Yay?

How about that health care bill? I shall be watching Fox News for some serious lulz in the next few days.

>>3
lulz
Back to /b/, please

Conservatives?

Faggots?

OH DEM REPUBLICANS

Republicans

They've been owned. You're welcome to live in a democracy now.

>>9
A democracy where democrats are the only party?

A one-party system masquerading as a two-party one.

Anyone ever noticed how in America, there tends to only be 2½ choices in a matter?
- Republicans vs Democrats. For the unconvinced, a (usually unspecified) "3rd Party" is said to exist.
- Coca-Cola vs Pepsi. Or, say, Dr. Pepper.
- IBM PC vs Apple Mac. Or Amiga, ST, or something else small.
-- Intel vs AMD. Possibly, what, Cyrix? VIA?
-- Windows vs Linux. Or something very small.
- Christianity vs Islam. Indigenous who? Buddha who?
-- Catholicism vs Protestantism. Or something very small.

>Windows vs Linux. Or something very small.
lol

>>11
IBM PC vs Apple Mac.
Since Apple's switch to x86 architecture, this has become a meaningless distinction. Macintoshes are basically PCs now. PCs that are made to run OS X.

>>12
QUOTE FAILURE

>>13
Do not blame QUOTES for the failure of the user.

>>9

We live in neither a republic (small R) or a democracy (small D). The U.S. takes ideals from both of these government types. Republicans (Big R) and Democrats (Big D) have nothing to do with the institutions they are named for.

>>15
Really? I always thought we had a combination of both. The Constitution and federalist paper #10 specifically state that the Founders intended to establish a republican form of government (the form of government, not the political party), and that representatives were suppose to be elected "democratically", meaning a representative democracy, as opposed to a direct democracy. The election of Senators were suppose to be elected through the state legislatures, but after the passage of the 17^th Amendment, they're popularly elected just like representatives in the House always were.

As for the way the two parties are today, yes, they don't stand for neither institutions they are named for, not to mention they don't even follow their party platforms strictly either.

>>16
On paper, we are a democratic republic. Things don't work like that in real life, however.

>>17
Yeah, that's true.

NECKBEARDS

Rosicrucians!