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Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-two-of-three-wives-agree dept.

0ryan0 writes "Utah lawmakers passed a bill today to force public school teachers to teach that the USA is a republic, not a democracy, because a 'Democracy' would have 'Democrat' in it." The good news must be that all issues of unemployment, finance and social service must be resolved in Utah for their legislature to spend time on this. It must be a utopia!

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  1. Why start being correct now? by EricWright · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, the USA IS a republic... a (supposedly) democratically elected republic, but a republic nonetheless. Maybe we should leave the terms democratic and republic alone and rename the political parties. How about lazy jackasses and fat ugly elephants instead?

  2. Re:Technically... by AmonTheMetalhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forgive him, he only has 64KB of RAM

  3. Re:Technically... by King+InuYasha · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are a Constitutional Federal Democratic Socialist Republic, technically. We have a Constitution, we use a Federal system of governance, we use democracy for elections, socialism for helping old or needy people, and we are a country of the people. So, technically, we are a Constitutional Federal Democratic Socialist Republic.

  4. I thought we were an autonomous collective. by jbezorg · · Score: 3, Funny

    *Proceeds to stack more mud*

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