Posted on 02/21/2022 6:43:22 AM PST by Kaslin
The left has been speaking up lately about protecting our “democracy,” which seems unusual since usually they never talk proudly about the U.S., they just bash it and talk about moving to some whiter country instead. They almost sound patriotic. But nope, it’s just smoke and mirrors, which both allosw them to fool people into thinking the left cares about the country and to sneak in their radical agenda.
Despite the fact the Founding Fathers were genius enough to create a Constitution that has lasted almost 250 years, arguably the longest in the world today providing the freest country, the left wants to throw it all away. The Founding Fathers created a representative democracy, not a democracy. (It is also frequently referred to as an indirect democracy, democratic republic, or constitutional republic, and democracy is also referred to as direct democracy.) The reason why a representative democracy is superior to plain democracy is because we choose wise, intelligent leaders who will have the time to devote a significant amount of time to studying issues, instead of expecting everyone to achieve this level of knowledge and ability.
The left gets away with the deception in part because democracy is being increasingly defined to sound more like representative democracy. The Oxford Dictionary’s first definition provides, “A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.”
But if you look at older versions of dictionaries, like the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary, there is nothing in the definition about elected representatives. In fact, it specifically mentions democracy in ancient Athens where everyone (well, the males) equally participated in political decisions. Any male citizen could participate and vote in the main assembly.
There is another reason the left is now bringing up democracy. Until this century, it was not a realistic option to allow everyone in a huge country to decide all political questions. With the advent of the internet, anyone can now vote from home anytime. The left loved motor voter laws because it got people registered to vote who normally wouldn’t have bothered since they weren’t informed; didn’t have the time, interest or aptitude to pay attention. The left then preyed upon the poor, bribing them with cigarettes and money, giving them rides to the polls and ballot harvesting.
The left’s tactics at winning elections in recent years have shifted to this, using nonprofit organizations and GOTV. It’s easier to disguise the election fraud that way, but some of it is clearly illegal, such as using nonprofits to influence partisan elections. By allowing everyone to vote from home, combined with federalizing elections so there are no more local elections, another one of their goals, they reap great rewards targeting neighborhoods full of low information voters to decide every issue. It’s easy to convince people who don’t know anything about politics to vote your way if you promise them Santa Claus.
The left has started accusing former President Donald Trump of threatening democracy in regard to the Jan. 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol. They’ve been attempting for over a year now to claim that he and his supporters tried to overthrow the country. But none of the gullible protesters who walked into the Capitol that day are being tried for insurgency, and nothing has happened to Trump. Even the biased MSM quietly reported that the FBI found no insurgency. But the left won’t keep up their repeated chants that the protesters tried to force Vice President Mike Pence into rejecting the certified electors from the disputed swing states.
The reality is, if Pence had decided to do so, it wouldn’t have resulted in a constitutional crisis. It would have merely been another one of many hundreds of constitutional questions the U.S. Supreme Court has adjudicated over the past 246 years. The Supreme Court — which has proven afraid to rule in favor of Trump regarding the election — would have ruled that Pence had merely ministerial, not a discretionary authority under the Constitution and that would have been the end of it. And even if they had ruled that he did have the authority, there have been plenty of previous SCOTUS decisions along those lines that didn’t destroy the country.
Perhaps the most similar major ruling along those lines was the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, which established that SCOTUS had the authority under the Constitution to review legislative or executive acts and find them unconstitutional. In that case, newly elected President Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, refused to honor a commission awarded to William Marbury, a Federalist appointed by previous Federalist President James Madison, to place him on the Supreme Court. Marbury sued, and the Supreme Court ruled against him, holding that Congress’s Judiciary Act of 1789 exceeded the original jurisdiction given to the courts in the Constitution.
Even if the Supreme Court had ruled the other way, there would have been no constitutional crisis or “threat to democracy.” Democrats have figured out that most people aren’t constitutional scholars and don’t understand this, so they continue repeating it ad nauseum. Pence could have issued this statement explaining his decision, “I am choosing to accept the Democratic slates from the disputed states because it is clear that the Supreme Court is going to rule that way anyway, and I want to avoid a needless conflict.”
Professor John Eastman, considered one of the leading constitutional lawyers on the right for years, became famous — infamous thanks to the left — for showing there was a convincing legal argument that Pence could have rejected the slates under the Constitution. For that, Eastman was chased out of his job as a professor at Chapman University.
Even most European socialist-leaning countries aren’t pure democracies. While the American left usually follows the lead of Europe, in this case they’re taking the lead destroying the representative democracy our Founders established protecting our rights, through the novel reframing of the word democracy. Next up: watch how they cleverly transition political decisions from the predominantly Republican state legislatures to “everyone.”
We’re not even a republic any more.
Any male citizen could participate and vote in the main assembly.
Ah, the good old days.
JK ladies!!!
So nice to see them using the word democracy and showing how much they love democracy,(puke on my shoes)
I bet they do this on purpose. To condition us to think that when they are in power, they rule absolutely (like in a democracy)
Sort of like they are doing now, with the thinnest of majorities.
Epic fail.
....”A democracy is a form of government that empowers the people to exercise political control, limits the power of the head of state, provides for the separation of powers between governmental entities, and ensures the protection of natural rights and civil liberties. In practice, democracy takes many different forms.....”
One definition....another long-time common lay definition was “rule by the mob”....no, our form of gubbermint is (supposedly...) a representative republic, not a democracy...but, yes, we are not even a republic any more...
These fanatics do it as a tactic to control the narrative, promote their agenda and shut down any vocal opposition. After all, only bad, unreasonable, hate-filled, racist, anti-woman and/or ignorant people are against democracy. The internet and media are fantastic, powerful tools to help them in ways Stalin and Hitler and other despots couldn’t even dream of doing in their day. If the US were truly a democracy, lots of leftist garbage would never have been (unconstitutionally) imposed on a free people ...like abortion and homo marriage.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot with a title.
” If the US were truly a democracy, lots of leftist garbage would ...”
That’s a good point!
The author makes some good points but I cannot take seriously anyone who writes that Marbury was appointed by Federalist POTUS James Madison. When any 7th grader would know it was Federalist John Adams. In fact Madison was Jefferson’s Sec of State. The Sec State at that time dealt with many more matters than foreign policy. Signing judicial appointments was one of them. The author is either ignorant or too lazy to proofread his work.
We’re a republic in name only.
What we are in actuality is a kleptocracy.
“I bet they do this on purpose. To condition us to think that when they are in power, they rule absolutely (like in a democracy)
Sort of like they are doing now, with the thinnest of majorities.”
Right on the money. That is exactly what it is... A narrative to brainwash. And through that false branding transform our perspective about our true form of government. Repeat a lie long enough...
It was plainly obvious that it is intentional when they were impeaching trump. Before they were all parroting the false brand, during the trial they changed to using using “Our Republic” to try and appease Senators, then after they went right back to “Our Democracy” again.
I have been working on a video to show this deception, but I have been finding they scrubbed most of the accounts where they used “Our Republic” during the trial. It was all too telling and exposed their hypocrisy.
I think it’s become more of a paedocracy. A nation ruled by children in adult bodies, self-centered, foolish, moody, and often very nasty.
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Everyone should have figured out long ago that “our democracy” is a codeword. You will never hear anyone but Democrats use it, and it translates to “Democrat power and control”.
They don’t give a flip about actual democracy, or that we are a representative republic for that matter. They are not misinformed or using the wrong word, once you understand that it is a codeword, what they say makes perfect sense. When they express fear over “losing our democracy” they are saying they are afraid of losing their power and control.
When the states lost control over the selection of its Senators to political factions we went from a "separation of powers" to a "win at any cost" form of government.
Although the battle still rages, the field has now been taken by crooked lawyers.
Emotion driven people are ruling us now.
They want what they want, no matter the consequences or cost.
This argument gets more and boring and ridiculous each time.
For the record we sure as hell are a Democracy BUT our form of democracy is that of a representative republic. We freely vote for whoever we feel represents us the best. Our version of a representative republic has many checks and balances to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. We sure as hell are not a direct democracy. The founding fathers rejected that concept and for good reason.
There is an old man named Mike Pence
Who is best known for riding the fence;
When asked to delay it
He just couldn't say it;
And now he's of no con-se-quence.
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