The author of the Declaration of Independence went to great lengths , on numerous occasions , to point out that when he and his colleagues started the United States of America they were explicitly rejecting — in favor of democracy — the men ( they were all men back then ) who drove the “ three historic tyrannies ”: kings / autocrats , theocrats / popes , and morbidly rich oligarchs .
For two thousand years before Jefferson , Washington , Hamilton , Paine , Adams , Revere , and their colleagues created our checksand-balances system of republican democracy , every country in the world was ruled by one of those three . Today , of the 167 countries on Earth , only 74 are democracies , and only 24 of those are “ fully democratic .”
And now , because of the GOP , America stands on the verge of losing that status .
• Theocrats have seized control of our Supreme Court , gutting the rights of women and religious /
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