You’ve no doubt heard the old (and very apt) description of a democracy as two wolves and a sheep discussing what’s for dinner. Democracy can also be more succinctly described as “mob rule”, an obtuse, brutish political concept where those within the slimmest of majorities are magically empowered by sheer mass of numbers to directly dictate how the unfortunate minority must live.
If America were in any way a democracy, there would be no need for a Senate, and certainly no House of Representatives, everything would be settled on a straight up or down vote by the masses. Elections would be won by popular vote instead of the steadying presence of the Electoral College, and the mob with the greatest numbers (ie, the large metropolitan areas) would always prevail.
Leftists also love to preach about “freedom”, and yet ironically the only political system inherently less free than a democracy is a dictatorship.
Insomuch as Democrats dogmatically insist that America is a democracy, they perpetuate a myth of their own making. It’s a very attractive myth… if you happen to be one of the wolves. But democracies have historically failed every time they have been attempted. Why? Because once a majority seizes power, the defeated minority begins scheming to usurp that power by pivoting to become the new majority. When sheer numbers alone are the only criteria for gaining power, infighting and subterfuge are the inevitable result.
Sound familiar? If so, you can thank the machinations of the Democratic Party for the mayhem.
The Founders wisely gave us a representative republic (“if we can keep it”, Franklin famously said), where decisions are not directly made by the gang leaders of the strongest prevailing hive-mind, but by individuals through their elected local, state and national representatives. A republic stands as a buffer between good people and mob tyranny.
It’s no accident that where we find the most debt, the most impoverishment, the most dysfunction, the greatest chaos, and the worst incidents of arson, looting and insurrection, are within leftist, Democratic-controlled cities. A Republic can get messy at times to be sure, but nothing compared to the scattered and chaotic uproar of Democrats seeking to coerce or destroy all those who do not echo the approved agenda.
A FB friend of mine recently wrote, “The current administration is proving ruinous to our democracy”. He is absolutely on-point, and I agree entirely… other than I’d have to call it “your democracy”, as I don’t personally have one, and I prefer it that way. God forbid I ever live in a true democracy — I’ve suffered through a few bands purporting to be democracies, and that taught me a great deal about what to avoid like the plague!
After decades of Democrats and Republicans-in-name-only ruling the people, running roughshod over our liberties, regulating, excessively taxing and seizing control over wide swaths of human activity over which they were originally given no jurisdiction whatsoever, Trump was duly elected President to roll that back, to indeed ruin, as much as one man possibly could, the ambitions of the left, to put “our democracy” out to pasture and restore our Republic as our Founders envisioned it. I think it’s remarkable that this President, as unlikely a hero as he is, faced with spotty support from his own pandering party, and such deranged contempt, resistance and hatred from the other, has managed to keep as many promises as he has.
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