I never had faith in universal Democracy to start with. I believe in freedom and laws designed to protect them. I believe in a system constructed in a manner that keeps one evil tyrant from taking total control.
Universal Democracy is nothing but mob rule. Pander to the masses and give them what they want and they will give you their selfish support, laws be damned.
We suffer from Democracy today. Badly. And we have a tyrant that is taking ultimate advantage from it.
Spreading democracy should never have been a policy of the United States. Democracy as a failure is second only to socialism/communism. It has been proven time and again that the masses are asses; unthinking, uncritical and ignorant to undereducated.
Every man should be free, but not every man is ready for freedom. Iraq and the ME is proof of that.
David Brooks should stick to a subject he has some level of expertise in, like his “innate” ability to determine leadership qualities of an individual from creases in his or her dress pants.
NYT is supposed to be those smart East Coast intellectuals, right?
Then how come they miss the obvious fact that there will be no “rational planning” without “hierarchy?”
(Not to mention the sad fact of human nature — that “oppression” is inevitable when the elites indulge in “rational planning.”)
Because “democracy” is not found anywhere in the writings of the Founders, in fact, they warned against it, we can only hope that people see the folly in having the least capable people choosing the nation’s leaders. The Founders knew better, requiring land ownership in order to vote. Let the Makers decide, not the Takers.
Beautiful collectivism? As in socialism, Marxism, communism? Enslavement of the masses? Mass murder of hundreds of millions?
Brought to us by the same godless collectivist monsters that foisted wholesale slaughter of the innocent unborn on America?
Ain’t collectivism grand?
“The democratic gospel was both lofty and realistic. It had a high historic mission, but it was based on the idea that biblical morality is necessary precisely because people are selfish and shortsighted, capitalism is necessary because economies are too complicated to understand and plan; democracy is necessary because concentrated power is always dangerous, no matter how seductive it seems in the short term.”
I don`t believe in Democracy, we are a Federalist Constitutional Republic. P!ss on mob-ocracy!