"Republic" and "Republican" are not same words.
Not affiliated to Republican Party.
It actually is affiliated Foxrac. To be a member of a "Republic", one must be a "Republican". The United States is a Republic. We have a representative republic, we vote representatives to represent our will before Congress. When our representatives do not convey the will of the people, we have tyranny. It is what makes us "exceptional".
I had it explained to me a long time ago ...
Paint this picture in your mind
Suppose we have a Sheriff in an Old West town, and he is guarding a violent sex offender who is sitting in a jail cell. Suppose the entire town converges on on the Jail; they are standing outside with flaming torches, pitchforks, and shooting their 6 shooters up in the air. The street outside the Sheriff's office is packed with people, young, old, men and women .. and they are all very angry.
The Sheriff is casually sitting outside on the porch, smoking a cigarette. He has his back up against the wall, a shotgun resting across his outstretched legs while sitting on a bench. The leader of the lynch mob comes forward, and he demands that the violent sex offender be released that very instant. The Sheriff tilts his hat back, looks the leader dead in the eye and says "I'm afraid I can't do that son."
The leader then tells the Sheriff, that the town just had a vote, and they voted to lynch the violent sex offender in the town square. Then, he was going to be drawn and quartered .. right out there in public, in front of everyone. They had voted that justice had to be done. They all had voted that the violent sex offender was guilty.
The Sheriff then says, "Son, I don't know what in tarnation bedeviled you into thinking this here is some sort of a dee mah cruh see. You see .. its like this here ... this ain't no dee mah cruh see, this is a ree puhb lick. Got it? And in a ree puhb lick, we have laws, and it ain't no mob laws neither. My prisoner is going to stand before a judge and be tried before a jury of his peers. He is not being released from my prison into your hands for some sort of mob justice that y'all decided to vote on ... sorry"
Off in the distance ... a crow caws ....
"First here, lemme tell y'all townsfolk some things .. y'all do not get to decide on my prisoner's guilt or innocence .. a jury does. But that only happens after he has been represented by his attorney before a judge, and all facts of the case are presented."
More than 2 different scenarios can happen (will explain brb)
Scenario numero uno
The leader of the lynch mob .. intent on serving mob justice, looks around at the assembled crowd. He makes a wide sweeping gesture with outstretched arms and says, "But Sheriff, you forgot something .. there are more of us than there are of you. Now I am going to say this one last time ... release the prisoner."
You see Foxrac ... THAT is a Democracy. The assembled crowd voted on an issue and they can easily use force to make the Sheriff comply with their demands. ¿Comprende mi amigo?
Scenario numero dos
After the Sheriff addresses the crowd, a strong lone boisterous voice bellows from the crowd ..."The Sheriff is right!!! We aren't savages like the prisoner, we have laws for our protection!!!"
Slowly, but surely, the rest of the crowd acknowledges that this is the right thing to do .. that each individual has certain inalienable rights, all granted by our mutual Creator.
THAT is a Republic.
