{"id":50150,"date":"2023-04-25T19:20:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50150"},"modified":"2023-04-25T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:20:55","slug":"is-our-democracy-endangered-by-authoritarian-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50150","title":{"rendered":"Is Our &#8216;Democracy&#8217; Endangered By Authoritarian Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, we are not a democracy&#8211;we are a representative republic. Secondly, let&#8217;s look at the authoritative tendencies of each party. On Tuesday, Steven Hayward posted an article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/04\/the-daily-chart-authoritarian-democrats.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line Blog<\/a> that included the following chart:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AuthoritativeDemocrats.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AuthoritativeDemocrats.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AuthoritativeDemocrats.png 613w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AuthoritativeDemocrats-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AuthoritativeDemocrats-392x300.png 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Given how Democrats like President Biden think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/04\/whose-children-are-they.php\">your own children don\u2019t belong to you<\/a>, imagine what Democrats might do if there wasn\u2019t a Second Amendment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Chaser: Yes, you may well ask, who are the idiot Republicans who answer Yes to any of these questions, when the right answer is NO. I suggest this survey is an ideal screen for identifying RINOs, who are, alas, not an endangered species.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you support the idea of mandatory vaccines, but do you want to see your fellow Americans arrested or put in camps because they refuse a shot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, we are not a democracy&#8211;we are a representative republic. Secondly, let&#8217;s look at the authoritative tendencies of each party. On Tuesday, Steven Hayward posted an article at Power Line Blog that included the following chart: The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=50150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8203,5647,14716],"class_list":["post-50150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-power-line-blog","tag-steven-hayward","tag-unvaccinated-citizens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50152,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50150\/revisions\/50152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}