The US is ranked as a 'Flawed Democracy', what needs to change?

[the-pi-guy]

Paatar said:

Quotes don't mean anything other than quoting something. there are better ways to explain your meaning. Once again though, people who believe certain people shouldn't exist is not exclusive to the right. 

Quotation marks are used for plenty of things.

Quotation marks within an emphatic context should tell readers that the content in quotes means something other than what it usually would. In many cases, one might even interpret text within emphatic quotation marks as a wink to the audience

Quotation marks, also known as inverted commas, are normally used for quotation, as their American name suggests, or to mark a title (book, film, etc), or to enclose a foreign, technical, or otherwise potentially unfamiliar word. Standard use of these marks encompasses variation: they can be single or double, and may be punctuated differently around stops, depending on local conventions. Quotation marks can also highlight that a word is being used somehow peculiarly – a writer may wish to indicate irony, inaccuracy, or scepticism, for example; used this way, they’re called scare quotes. In the line: At the party I met a teacher, a journalist, and an ‘artist’, the scare quotes around artist act as a distancing device, probably signalling doubt about the person’s credentials as an artist. The effect is similar to the Irish phrase mar dhea.

Which here means, people call themselves conservative, and they hold these views. 

Paatar said:

Same thing happened with the "Don't say gay" bill--where the bill never even mentioned the word gay. It just prohibits the talk about sexual conduct, both straight and gay, in 3rd grade and lower classrooms. Which is something all of us should agree with--kids that young do not need that stuff in their classrooms. 

It does a lot more than that.

The actual bill

SEXUALLY-ORIENTED MATERIAL.—The term ‘‘sexually-oriented material’’ means any depiction, description, or simulation of sexual activity, any lewd or lascivious depiction or description of human genitals, or any topic involving gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual orientation, or related subjects

In other words, the bill covers gender dysphoria, and sexual orientation.

There's a pretty massive difference between gender identity, sexual orientation and sexual activity.

Paatar said:

Give me a specific example of something you want me to rebuttal, and I'll provide it. 

You claimed that tolerance sometimes meant intolerance, and vice versa. Give an example.