Posted on 08/20/2015 10:01:34 AM PDT by Loud Mime
ping
Too late. I’ve been “listening to” [reading] him for years - decades, actually.
“A democracy as a system of government will exist only until the people discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”
Deez Nuts?
Which is why we are supposed to have a Republic, not a democracy. Until the 1930’s the US Army’s own training manuals had this to say to about democracy:
CITIZENSHIP Democracy:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic—negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy
Good cite! Heck, all the way back to Aristotle they knew Democracies were horrible forms of government.
My point in this essay is that we’re ignoring the Constitution and the horrible debt of the Democrats. The founders knew this was coming. But the political class has engineered a program of ignorance, to their advantage.
<>They go for your jugular, go for theirs!” He’s right.<>
Exactly. The way to do it is to go around the ruling and social institutions that the Left has so thoroughly corrupted.
By that, I mean the states should meet in convention NOW and once every year to address the Leftist tyranny that engulfs our nation.
Hundreds of Article V applications have been submitted to congress without a single call to convene. It never will.
The states must exercise their responsibility to their people before it is too late. Time is short.
Good definition. Who had that taken out of the manual?
Hugely important post and points that if loudly repeated enough times would greatly help mass civic education.
Where’s the Tea Party and Freedom Express to help organize a massive Liberty movement in ever state?
09/12/2015, and beyond -
Political candidates and those in power only see the light, when they feel the heat.
We have to take charge and shape the right plank.
The FDR Administration. We became “The Arsenal of Democracy.”
Maybe it was Dummkopf.
For people like me, the Constitution has been, if not dead, at least badly maimed since 1861; maybe even farther back to Marbury vs. Madision, which gutted the 10th Amendment.
The Title was changed by the editor. I tried (I’m the writer) to put Madison’s speech on the Cod Fishery Bounties into today’s context.
We’re not addressing the constitutional foundation. It’s up to each of us to do it in every conversation we have.
Maybe it was she, kkalman.
Sorry about that spontaneously honest post of mine, Loud Mime. Too cerebral for me to guess the subject.
Madison was always my favorite of the ff
No offense taken.
So it is congress that is buying the people.
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