Posted on 10/22/2019 4:28:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democracies have been shown to be an unmitigated disaster throughout human history. That's why this country wasn't designed to operate that way.
Tripoli is not in Lebanon, Pat.
Dunno Pat.
Sounds like typical democRATs to me.
(democracy is mob rule)
It is if the Left gets its way. In fact, George Orwell’s nightmare will become reality.
Adolf Hitler’s thugocracy is alive and thriving in the “progressive” movement and the Democrat Party.
Looked at a map lately?
That is precisely what a democracy looks like. Which is why we have a Republic.
Actually they did, Pat. Didn't you write in plain English that the government repealed the transit fare hike that triggered the riots?
Sad that I won't live to see the second great awakening that will inevitably follow. It's not sad that I likely won't live to see the worst of it either.
Yes, it is. There is also one in Libya, but there is a Tripoli roughly 40 miles north of Beirut.
The Left and Leftist press are Despotic:
Despotism (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w
A community is low on a Respect scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.
...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...
A community rates low on the Information scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.
See how a community trains its teachers
...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.
And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
The rise of globalist “Woke Capitalism”(i.e. Fascism)is a sure sign that so-called “Post-War Liberal Democracy” has failed miserably.
Watch what happens apres Trump.
I think we're seeing the problems of post-scarcity societies. People have "stuff". People have "time on their hands". But they want more. They may not exactly know what they want. But they are dissatisfied with their life. They aren't struggling (which tends to occupy the mind) but rather they are somewhat bored and sulky.
I see it in the US. The young Leftists hate Trump. Why? Do they even know? What are his crimes? But none of that matters. People just sit in Starbucks sipping their lattes and dreaming of rioting in the streets because they think life ought to be so much better.
I have no idea how this gets better. The devil makes work for idle hands and I think the world will see more and more idle hands.
Various forms of governing work in varying degrees of success or failure.
100% of which depends on the super majority spirit of the people in that country. 51% doesn’t work. Godless societies will always implode into despot hell holes regardless of the government. The most powerful person can be destroyed with the introduction of just a few toxic microbes. A minority of truly evil citizens can destroy the whole of the country. Right Hillary?
Just from the title, we can only hope....
KYPD
> “Democracies have been shown to be an unmitigated disaster throughout human history.”
Yes, students of history going back centuries have known governments run by pure democracy end up in disaster which is why the American Founders modeled our government as a Republic.
The only places democracy worked well were found in Ancient Greece in city-states where the population was small and homogeneous. The Founders knew that democracy needed to be kept very local but the wider nation needed to be a Republic.
In a nutshell, when ambitious persons aiming for power can’t get their way within a democracy, they become belligerent, what we might call fascist. Then, within the construct of democracy the same ambitious persons will bribe, bully, assault, compromise, control all aspects of life outside elections to get their way. This leads to loss of freedom and loss of representation. Eventually a mob takes control and the democracy is run as a criminal enterprise like a mafia. The idea of democracy becomes a joke, a false emblem of something that sounds good but is rotten to the core.
If democracy is kept small and confined to local districts, it serves a purpose. Even if a mobster gains control of the local district, that mobster runs into the brick wall which is the Republic. Hence, the evolution of the local mobster is to grow power within a local jurisdiction such as cities like Chicago, NY, LA, Baltimore, etc, springing what Obama called the ‘Urban Archipelago’ which becomes in certain instances powerful enough to control entire states. Now we see such controlled states forming Voter Compacts which aim to do end runs around the Electoral college which is a construct to protect the Republic. In this context, democracy is a poison that must infect and kill the Republic which is in its way to controlling power.
“Tripoli is not in Lebanon, Pat.”
Yes it is. It is also in Libya.
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