Democracy failed just as soon as people learned they could vote themselves a raise.

Isimov was a wise man. And a terrific SiFi author.

It couldn't be that they didn't learn anything. I sure that's because they professors weren't up to the task of trying to teach students that never should have graduated from high school.

I love Judge N.

"Absolute" democracy is as bad as "absolute" anything: Monarchy, Czar, Fuehrer, Supreme Leader...I hesitate to say it's the worst...but it may be...

How many of us would be "voted off the island"? (Applause).

Not much on Plato however in the Republic he warned about Democracy that it would breed tyranny. Our fore father's tried to put provisions in our constitution to stop it however we have lost our way and must regain our way.

Hi O.A.
Wish the numbers would have been there for the battery project we talked about a while back. Hope they have success. My investors just would not go for it.

Love the quote because it is nothing but brutal truth. Which means 98% of the public would be appalled and infuriated that someone could be so unfeeling as to say such a thing.

Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion", the word Democracy is not mentioned in the Constitution at all. Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with this quote, along with more warnings from others.

HELLO! politicians, leftist teachers and media fools...

"Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths... A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Ben Franklin
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams

http://www.whatourforefathersthought.com...

Hello mccwho,
Good Asimov quote. :)
O.A.

damn. . I thought that there were more in that 10
who had morals than just me. -- j

I am of course refering to the difference between a democracy vs republic.

Another good quote:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

I agree 100%

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1992

Maybe that’s why they don't want the Pledge of allegiance to be said in schools. "I pledge allegiance to the Republic...."

Democracy can be as brutal a dictator as Stalin was. Because of the misuse of the term, it is startling to realize how many people think that the USA is a "Democracy" and are surprised when you tell them it is not. Then, they expect you to say something negative about America as I try to explain what a republic is.

Nine out of ten people enjoy gang rape.

Because majority rule becomes mob rule democracy contains within it the seeds of its own destruction.

Yes. And I think we are past the tipping point. The majority of people are moochers who have learned that they can vote for looters to give benefits paid for by the producers. The drift toward this almost seems inevitable (unless you have you make it clearly prohibited in an unchangeable Constitution, or make avoiding that situation a requirement for citizenship, or such). But once the profession toward this goal has begun, and passed that tipping point, I don't know if this has ever in our history been reversed.

It is said that democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. When the majority can vote to legalize theft from the minority the system is fundamentally flawed.

Democracy = Mob Rule.
Representative Republic requires 2/3 for approval, meaning at least 1/2 of 1/2 on the "opposing side agree.

This is very old news. If i remember correctly the founding fathers chose a Republic versus a democracy for this reason.

Want to see what democracy looks like..........? Look at 50 unshowered adolescents from the Occupy Movement demanding to have their college debts paid off because they didn't get a job out of college making $60k per year.

I agree. They scream democracy until the vote doesn't go their way and then they cry to the courts. Well said.

Not by the left. They keep trying to get everything by judicial decree.

I love Judge N.

"Absolute" democracy is as bad as "absolute" anything: Monarchy, Czar, Fuehrer, Supreme Leader...I hesitate to say it's the worst...but it may be...

How many of us would be "voted off the island"? (Applause).

...and a Constitutional Democracy sees a well-armed lamb contesting the election.