Posted on 11/24/2020 6:14:06 PM PST by caww
The growth of our Leviathan state in the West has taken place under the auspices of democracy. The words of Ronald Reagan in 1975 come to mind: “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.” Reagan seemed to intuit the power of the democratic lexicon to disguise totalitarian ambitions.
Long ago, in a paradoxical move to welcome popular sovereignty to the table of legitimate governing theories, Jean-Jacques Rousseau conceived of democracy in such a way that it could never be anything but anti-democratic.
Rousseau’s democratic ideal, which is paradigmatic of the Western elite’s notion of “democracy,” assumes that a hypothetical General Will, exists over and above the people’s actual, historically manifest will, evidenced in its traditions, religious beliefs, local customs, associations, and voting preferences. Recall the rationalization of the left that Trump’s supporters had voted “against their own self-interest.” Those who have inherited the mantle of Rousseauean “democracy” claim to be the real arbiters of the people’s interests and will.
This ideological way of conceiving of democracy may appropriately be called democratism.
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President Reagan was quite the visionary.
I miss his common sense and ability to talk over the Press, directly to the people.
Yeah ... That is called “Communism,” and the reason we have to call it “fascism” is quite simple. Too many surnames associated with Communism/Marxism are In Name Only people. Sorry, the truth hurts, boomer evangelicals. Antifa is what it has always been: an In Name Only organization.
Yes!......and “stay off my back and out of my pocket!”
“If or when Fascism ever makes any headway in America, it will probably be known as “Anti-Fascism.”” (1937)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/04/anti-fascism/
If biden is installed its going to get real ugly real fast. We know whats coming and they will have china to help them with thier out of control population
We see that in the streets.
Great article, thanks, wish it had gotton more attention, should be referenced and even re-posted.
Heck, it’s been In Name Only even under Karl Marx’s time, and he founded the ideology. Babeuf may have been In Name Only too, come to think of it.
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