“Over these past hundred years, the left has expertly replaced our first principle, securing our unalienable rights, with a bumper sticker slogan, democracy. I wager 95% of Americans think our founding principle is majority rule.”
That was another reason I wrote the book, to dispel this idea of “democracy.” Democracy has come to mean self-government. And while it is true that the people govern themselves in a democracy, democracies have quickly descended to anarchy and tyranny, because there was no opposing power.
The United States is democratic, because the people choose the members of the legislatures, and the legislatures in general govern themselves by majority rule, but it is not a democracy. There’s a difference, which I do my best to explain.
No argument. I was using the vernacular sense. What came to mind in particular was that rotten baloney from Woody Wilson, “Keeping the world safe for democracy,” which has oozed over time into the American subconscious.