The USDA classifies beans in both the vegetable and protein groups.
Two things at once. Without contradiction.
I think about that every time someone informs me, with great confidence, that actually, America is a republic, not a democracy.
And they’re not wrong. They’re just not finished.
We are a federal republic. We are also a representative democracy. These are not competing claims. They are complementary truths. Our founders built a system that was specifically designed to be both a nation governed by law and constitutional structure and one where the people hold sovereign power through their elected representatives.
You can be two things at once. Beans figured it out. Let’s do the same.
