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[–] SweetChicken ago 

You misunderstood, read it again. It was those who rejected the doctrine who advocated democracy

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[–] 9922935? ago 

Like, Thomas Jefferson ?

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"The legacy is a complex one. The belief in an American mission to promote and defend democracy throughout the world, as expounded by Thomas Jefferson and his "Empire of Liberty", and by Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush,"

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We'll have a hard time taking it back

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[–] SweetChicken 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

That's because lefties don't understand the difference between a pure democracy, which we are not and a democratic republic which we are. You are trying to imply they mean a pure democracy when they are talking about a republican democracy.

Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, an influential advocate for Jacksonian democracy and a complex character described by Julian Hawthorne as "always full of grand and world-embracing schemes",[13] wrote an article in 1839,[14] which, while not using the term "manifest destiny", did predict a "divine destiny" for the United States based upon values such as equality, rights of conscience, and personal enfranchisement "to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man". This destiny was not explicitly territorial, but O'Sullivan predicted that the United States would be one of a "Union of many Republics" sharing those values.[15]

Six years later, in 1845, O'Sullivan wrote another essay titled Annexation in the Democratic Review,[16] in which he first used the phrase manifest destiny.[17] In this article he urged the U.S. to annex the Republic of Texas,[18] not only because Texas desired this, but because it was "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions".[19] Overcoming Whig opposition, Democrats annexed Texas in 1845. O'Sullivan's first usage of the phrase "manifest destiny" attracted little attention.[20]

Edit; I'm just trying to point out manifest destiny was born out of the thought that our republics core values are what deemed it 'morally right' for the expansionist ideology.