The US is not a Democracy
“…the destiny of the republican model of government…is staked on an experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people”
-- George Washington (Farewell Address)
Have the peoples' failure in this regard been the cause of downfall of our system?
-- George Washington (Farewell Address)
Have the peoples' failure in this regard been the cause of downfall of our system?
Democracy has always failed and it will always fail because it is a very flawed scheme for government that has always been manipulated to centralize power in a few while destroying the liberty of the people.
America was never intended to be a democracy.
Freedom is not free. People must continually resist expansion of government to stay free.
Americans have been complacent and have been brainwashed continually by sources biased toward statism and a large strong central government that treats the people as its inferiors and as its economic slaves. Every major media source is biased in this way. Virtually all public education is biased in this way. Neither of those primary sources should be trusted to tell the truth. They have been lying for generations and they will never stop because they have a vested interest in the expansion of government and the destruction of free markets and individual liberty.
The article quotes George Washington's description of American government as a "republican model of government".
It was not a republic, nor was it a democracy, not was it any combination of those two terms.
It was intended as a "republican form" of government as the article says.
When the Republic is gone you have tyranny.
U.S. Constitution, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 4
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/...
You beat me to it. :)
Good to hear from you!
Regards,
O.A.
"The founders studied the entire history of the forms of government." I think that this is the "root cause" of the success of our Founders. They EDUCATED themselves and then applied that acquired knowledge and understanding to design the form of government that they thought to be optimal.
This is what I consider an axiom (i.e. a self-evident truth): "People get the governments they deserve." In the Freedom Outpost article that blarman posted, the author rhetorically asks if the destiny of North Koreans is in their own hands and then answers "Of course not." I could not disagree with him more. It takes a bloody rebellion to topple a tyranny. The Founders faced numerous people who disagreed with them and sided with the British. But they believed in the cause so much to be willing to risk life, wealth and honor for the victory. They won and we all are the beneficiaries.
It should be clear from the above that the key to our future is education. The misguided ideologues of the collectivism and, among them, some malicious ones have impregnated the educational systems and spew the poison daily. The evidence of utter ignorance about some of these themes among many of the young is everywhere. Many times the level of the "intellectual" discourse and of the writing is simply appalling. Do you remember how many American "intellectuals" admired Stalin?
As an aside. I do not propose witch hunts or persecution. But the TRUTH must be the supreme value. People, but especially the politicians and government officials must learn to say: "I don't know." We all will have to be willing to put in all the necessary efforts and resources so that our great grandchildren may enjoy the rights of liberty, property and pursuit of happiness as well as the rights enumerated in the BILL.
Do you "see" that you have touched a nerve?
+100 if I could!
All the best.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
Demonacracy, being a philosophy of total inclusion was promoted because those that promoted it were found wanting, found without conscience and found to be unwashed.