Free Republic

au·thor·i·tar·i·an·ismnoun the enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.With his latest wave of accolades heaped upon homicidal communist dictator Fidel Castro, Bernie Sanders equivocated his praise for Cuba’s “literacy programs” with the reminder that he "happens to believe in democracy, not authoritarianism." Does he though? For that matter, do any of the final Democrat candidates for the presidential nomination? “I believe in Democracy, not authoritarianism” is a strange phrase as it presupposes that democracy is an antonym to authoritarianism. It isn’t, really. Tyranny, totalitarianism, dictatorship, monarchy, those are contradictory systems to democracy. Democracy...