A Critique of Democratic Systems of Government

Note: The following is adapted from a 1990 article authored by a now deceased American satirist from Texas, R. Pendleton, who was also a scholar who specialized in the history and culture of Mediterranean Europe.

In 1936 the socialist revolutionary apparatus in Spain, having obtained control of the government in corrupt elections, began a great 'modernization' of the country, celebrating it with massacres of Spaniards of cultivation and refinement, although the atrocities that were given publicity in the United States were almost confined to the burning of churches, the torture and murder of priests, and the rape, mutilation, and murder of nuns.

The sweet smell of fresh blood always quickens the ideals of "Liberal intellectuals," who rejoiced in the expectation that all the glories of the communist capture of the Russian Empire in 1917-1918 were about to be repeated. They howled and gnashed their teeth when the Spanish Army began what was technically a revolt against the Communist government, and in American universities they incited hot-headed young dolts to rush to Spain and enlist in the dispensable shock-troops that were called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, having been given, not inappropriately, the name of the backwoods politican who precipitated the great catastrophe that rescinded the Constitution and ended the American Republic.

After the death of three senior generals, command of the Spanish Army devolved on General Francesco Franco, who in the civil war, suppressed the Communist rabble, and, with the help of the sane political organization in Spain, the Falange, gave the nation a stable and civilized government.

Franco was only forty-seven when he established his "Fascist" régime in Spain. He was a competent general, but he lacked political genius. It is said that he was sincerely a practicing Catholic.

In 1947 Franco, despite the misgivings of the Falange, declared Spain a monarchy, which a yet unnamed king was to rule after his death, and in 1966 Franco sponsored an "organic law" that was designed to reduce the Falange to political impotence and introduced a whole panoply of essentially "Liberal" innovations in preparation for a "Constitutional Monarchy." He selected as his heir the Bourbon who became King of Spain in 1975 as Juan Carlos I, a weak young man who lacked the will, and probably the wish, to resist further "liberalization" of the nation of which he was content to be a decorative figurehead.

Conditions in Spain deteriorated in Franco's old age and pietism, but only slowly and gradually, for the forces of destruction were held in check by a salutary memory of the power of Spanish Fascism in its prime. At his death, the dyke broke. Under the playboy king, "democratic" elections were held in 1976, and Spain began to race down the road to Hell that the one-worlders paved to lead the nations of Western civilization to the abyss.

The September issue of Sternum gives a few statistics that prove how rapidly the evils of Fascism are being overcome in Spain. In the year preceding the elections in 1976, there were 3,660 reported robberies in Spain. In 1986, there were 49,423. And you may feel assured that further progress toward "social justice" will henceforth be made every year.

In Madrid alone, there are 40,000 known addicts to heroin, and the educational system is functioning with American efficiency. A typical Spanish boy started sniffing glue for "kicks" at school when he was ten; he graduated to marijuana when he was twelve or thirteen; and by the time he was seventeen, he was giving himself hypodermics of heroin. There is no estimate of the number of Spaniards addicted to cocaine, which is by far the most popular narcotic in Mediterranean countries because it acts as an aphrodisiac.

The newspapers, most of them controlled by socialists, regularly carry advertisements by homosexuals seeking "dates" with fellow perverts. A British lecturer noted that at one class dinner, there were present eighty young Spanish women, all twenty-three years of age. Not one was married. He had no means of knowing how many had had abortions or borne bastards.

Crimes of violence by both individuals and gangs are rapidly increasing, and tourists, on whom the country depends for a substantial part of its revenue, now have as good a chance of being mugged and robbed or abused as they would have in Chicago or London, model cities of the ochlocracy that is called "democracy."

What Sternum did not mention is that Spaniards are fulfilling their multi-cultural duty to fill their country with several varieties of biological refuse from the Near and Middle East that are collectively called 'wogs.' Immigrants are being bred to replace Spaniards. And the invaders are bringing with them the African Plague, commonly called "AIDS," which will give White Spaniards an opportunity to prove pathologically that they are too high-minded and imbecile to discriminate.

English and American tourists should feel at home in Spain now: they will no longer miss the stench of their own countries. Nasty Fascism is a thing of the past and "democratic" progress is being made everywhere.

The case for optimism about democracy was well stated by John Adams, who succeeded George Washington as President of the American Republic: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes itself, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Not everyone agrees that mass democracy is the best system of government. You only have to look at Latin America, to see what is happening in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, since the introduction of mass Democracy in the 1980s and 1990s (or for that matter, South Korea, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Indonesia).

And I like the above quote from John Adams, who was Thomas Jefferson's rival. Adams was opposed to Jefferson's attempts to lower the qualifications for the franchise, fearing that it would lead to mass democracy.

If Adams could return and see the mess that Gray Davis has caused in California, he would say, "Don't say I did not warn you".

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Do you hate America that much? Do you hate freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the freedom to make a living? I assume you've been here, to America, so that surprises me. I also assume you haven't been to Spain. I have, I've stayed with friends who live there, I've traveled all over, and I can tell you that it is a peaceful, prosperous, hard working country, that the family is the dominant insitution in the country, and that if there is one thing the great majority of people in Spain agree on at this point is that FRANCO WAS BAD NEWS. There's one real howler in the article: "He had no means of knowing how many [of these young women] had had abortions or borne bastards." Excuse me? What does that mean? He also had no means of knowing that ANY of them had!

Does anybody agree with me that this article is just plain screwy?

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