Posted on 07/24/2014 10:52:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
What if you were allowed to vote only because it didn't make a difference? What if no matter how you voted the elites always got their way? What if the concept of one person/one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance?
What if democracy as it has come to exist in America today is dangerous to personal freedom? What if our so-called democracy erodes the people's understanding of natural rights and the reasons for government and instead turns political campaigns into beauty contests? What if American democracy allows the government to do anything it wants, as long as more people bother to show up at the voting booth to support the government than show up to say no?
What if the purpose of contemporary democracy has been to convince people that they could prosper not through the voluntary creation of wealth but through theft from others? What if the only moral way to acquire wealth is through voluntary economic activity? What if the government persuaded the people that they could acquire wealth through political activity? What if economic activity includes all the productive and peaceful things we voluntarily do? What if political activity includes all the parasitical and destructive things the government does? What if the government has never created wealth? What if everything the government owns it has stolen?
What if governments were originally established to protect people's freedoms but always turn into political and imperialist enterprises that seek to expand their power, increase their territory and heighten their control of the population? What if the idea that we need a government to take care of us is a fiction perpetrated to increase the size of government? What if our strength as individuals and durability as a culture are contingent not on the strength of the government but on the amount of freedom we have from the government?
What if the fatal cocktail of big government and democracy ultimately produces dependency? What if so-called democratic government, once it grows to a certain size, begins to soften and weaken the people? What if big government destroys people's motivations and democracy convinces them that the only motivation they need is to vote and go along with the results?
What if Congress isn't actually as democratic as it appears? What if congressional elections don't square with congressional legislation because the polls aren't what counts, but what counts are the secret meetings that come after the voting? What if the monster Joe Stalin was right when he said the most powerful person in the world is the guy who counts the votes? What if the vote counting that really counts takes place in secret? What if that's how we lost our republic?
What if the problem with democracy is that the majority thinks it can right any wrong, write any law, tax any event, regulate any behavior and acquire any thing it wants? What if the greatest tyrant in history lives among us? What if that tyrant always gets its way, no matter what the laws are or what the Constitution says? What if that tyrant is the majority of voters? What if the majority in a democracy recognizes no limits on its power?
What if the government misinforms voters so they will justify anything the government wants to do? What if the government bribes people with the money it prints? What if it gives entitlements to the poor and tax breaks to the middle class and bailouts to the rich just to keep everyone dependent on it? What if a vibrant republic requires not just the democratic process of voting, but also informed and engaged voters who understand first principles of human existence, including the divine origin and inalienable individual possession of natural rights?
What if we could free ourselves from the yoke of big government through a return to first principles? What if the establishment doesn't want this? What if the government remains the same no matter who wins elections? What if we have only one political party -- the Big Government Party -- and it has a Democratic wing and a Republican wing? What if both wings want war and taxes and welfare and perpetual government growth, but offer only slightly different menus on how to achieve them? What if the Big Government Party enacted laws to make it impossible for meaningful political competition to thrive?
What if the late progressive Edmund S. Morgan was right when he said that government depends on make believe? What if our ancestors made believe that the king was divine? What if they made believe that he could do no wrong? What if they made believe that the voice of the king was the voice of God?
What if the government believes in make believe? What if it made believe that the people have a voice? What if it made believe that the representatives of the people are the people? What if it made believe that the governors are the servants of the people? What if it made believe that all men are created equal, or that they are not?
What if the government made believe that it is always right? What if it made believe that the majority can do no wrong? What if the tyranny of the majority is as destructive to human freedom as the tyranny of a madman? What if the government knows this?
What do we do about it?
"Republic" means more than that. It means there is a hierarchy and division of authority.
Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
In the beginning when the republic was first established, only property owning males were permitted to vote in federal elections. I now see the wisdom of that. Further, US Senators were selected by the state legislatures, not by popular vote. I know see the wisdom of that. Other states established poll taxes and literacy tests. I now see the wisdom of that.
Within the past few years, the executive and judicial branches have established precedents that no election can reverse. Both branches have assumed Article I Section 1 powers to legislate.
Article I Section 1 created the American republic. ALL legislative powers therein granted were to reside within a congress of the people and states.
When legislative power is assumed by the unelected, despotism is established.
Everything else is irrelevant until this fundamental contradiction and offense to republican government is solved.
Fear not Article V. There is nothing to lose.
Rule of the majority is not always good thing.
What if the majority of the voters want to confiscate the property of a minority?
They will vote themselves higher taxes on some, collect freebies, and massively increase the size and scope of government while they’re at it. They have been doing this relentlessly since the New Deal.
Democracy=mob rule. Therefore it is not only wrong but also evil. Look how democracy has pretty much wrecked Europe.
BIG GOVERNMENT CANNOT SUCCEED...
Thomas Paine said...
“Absolute governments, (tho’ the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures. But the constitution of England is so exceedingly complex, that the nation may suffer for years together without being able to discover in which part the fault lies; some will say in one and some in another, and every political physician will advise a different medicine.”
The USA government is a behemoth next to England’s constitution.
Wrong.. Democracy is MOB RULE by mobsters.. always in every case..
The Italian Mob was and is democratic.. with mob sub-groupings.. like States, counties(bough's) i.e. provenance's..
Headed by Capo's... Mob structure varys but is top down..
Monarchy is also Mob Rule.. by mobsters..
Amazing how some cannot SEE the obvious “Don” or demagogues..
ALL Kings(Queens) are demagogues..
The American Consitution was and is UNIQUE in all of history..
It LIMITED THE MOB... and checked the mobsters..
Little wonder ALL democrats and many republicans WANT to abrogate it..
But the more "Free" the Countries name, often the less liberty it has.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, The German Democratic Republic, The Peoples Liberation Army et al ad nauseam
Uniparty Ping!
we were suppose to be a republic (nation of laws) not a democracy...................................
Note the Founders despised democracy, which was viewed as mobocracy. That’s why voting was limited to men who owned land. Julius Evola correctly criticized modern democracy as a mere vehicle for bonapartism by which tyrants accrued power through the dumbing down of the masses. See Barack Soebarkah. Once community organizer, now king.
That was a very well-written statement, delivered with a real impact.
You sure ask a lot of questions for someone from New Jersey.
That’s why our Founding Fathers set up a limited government constitutional republic.
They knew mob rule would bankrupt the country.
And they were right.
THIS.
Quite true.
This explains the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI
[ Note the Founders despised democracy, which was viewed as mobocracy. That’s why voting was limited to men who owned land. Julius Evola correctly criticized modern democracy as a mere vehicle for bonapartism by which tyrants accrued power through the dumbing down of the masses. See Barack Soebarkah. Once community organizer, now king. ]
Thomas Paine almost was killed during the french revolution... becasue he critizided their attempts at a democracy...
I think any one recieving largress fromthe public treasury should be disqualified from voting, but that is just me...
Who gets to decide on the Delegates? Who is in the pool of delegates?
I am familiar with the process, I am just not naive. I have been inside to many organizations, to many caucuses, to many committees not to know that such things are easily hijacked, and hard to restore.
The United States was not created as a democracy. The United States was created as a Representative Republic.
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