The US finally became a democracy in 1965

And we still aren't.

It was nice while it lasted.

[quote]"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands..."

The USA has never been a Democracy.

Democrats like to say we were/are, because it sounds similar to their party name.

Hence why they're so reluctant to call the USA a Republic, which in fact it is.

Um—the last vestige of the VRA, Section 2, is ripe for the plucking at the Supreme Court as we speak.

Thank you, OP.

I look at it as becoming a more perfect Union. The project started in 1776 and the Revolutionary War, which first benefited property owning men of European descent, then extended to all free men regardless of property, to women, then to all freeborn men regardless of literacy (the Voting Rights Act).

That project of building a more perfect Union has now hit road blocks we once thought were behind us.

It's now imperative that we defend it. The lesson is democracy -- building a more perfect union -- is fragile. A more perfect Union can crumble unless we remain vigilant.

Can?! Is—at this very moment.

We thought it would finally get those people to stop rioting every five minutes. A lot of good that did!

And now we're a fascist oligarchy.

And that pre-1965 situation is the "GREAT" they want to take us back to when they use that MAGA slogan. They want white straight Christian conservative rule over the rest of us so badly, they drool just thinking about it.

Whoever fucks with that act shouldn’t be allowed to live? “He was charged with defending democracy!”