GOP textbook tampering -omg

[anaturalwoman]

Important news from "SemDem" via Daily Kos news feed:
"The Washington Post has the old and new standards side-by-side so you can see all the redlining that was done. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Voting Rights Act were deleted. The historic role the NAACP played in the Civil Rights movement was downplayed, as well as all references to Roe v. Wade. Orwell at its best: you never fight for rights if you never learn you have them. Speaking of which:
Lest you think that only the term “core democratic principles” were redlined—no dice. Not only do the new standards wipe out the term “democratic”, they delete the term “democracy” as well.

...The justification, according to (Senator Patrick) Colbeck (R-Michigan} is that the United States is not a democracy, but a republic—a line that is often repeated by conservatives. It is false: America is, and always has been, a representative democracy. At least, that’s what it is supposed to be, and will hopefully remain that after the Trump years.
...As conservative author David Frum admits, the new GOP hates democracy, because, in his own words: "The Republican party has a platform that can’t prevail in democratic competition. WHEN HIGHLY COMMITTED PARTIES BELIEVE STRONGLY [IN] THINGS THAT THEY CANNOT ACHIEVE DEMOCRATICALLY, THEY DON’T GIVE UP THEIR BELIEFS — THEY GIVE UP ON DEMOCRACY."


Democracy isn’t to be protected, it’s to be thwarted. .. The GOP is working towards doing that in a number of ways. This story is one small, petty, and yet simultaneously significant blow: an attempt to remove democracy’s reverence from our textbooks.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

[Damage]

I think they are both kinda right?

as per Wikipedia:
Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, representative government or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.^[2]Nearly all modern Western-style democraciesare types of representative democracies; for example, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, France is a unitary state, and the United States is a federal republic.

A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government.^[1] At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen".

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.