June 21, 2013 The Dangers of Democracy By Todd Keister
"Democracy. The word is nearly ubiquitous in American political discourse. We routinely refer to our country and those modeled after our own as democracies. We listen to speeches, read books, and profess our belief in democratic principles, democratic governments, and democratic ideals.
Americans in the modern world completely fail to comprehend two important points. The first is that America -- as organized under the Constitution -- is not a democracy. The second is that democracy, in its pure form, is nothing more than mob rule. . . . what is never explained to you in school, is the existence of natural rights.Natural law and natural rights were the underpinning of the American founding and the reason why democracies are inherently unfair and always degenerate into despotism. The Declaration of Independence declared that all men are born with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- rights granted to them by God, or simply because they are human beings. As John Adams put it, "[y]ou have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the great legislator of the universe." . . . Unrestrained democracy provides no safeguards for the rights of the individual, leaving him defenseless against the mob. Democracy is not freedom; when your natural rights to life, liberty, and property are subject to the whims of a majority, you have no rights at all.
The founders understood this because, unlike our contemporaries, they studied and learned the lessons of history. They knew that because democracy is simply mob rule, it offered no protection for liberty and was always doomed to destroy itself. So they created a republic -- a representative form of government wherein the people democratically choose fellow citizens to represent them in government. The government, in turn, was restrained by law from doing anything to infringe upon the rights of the individual. With a federal government strictly limited to the handful of powers granted in Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution, and specifically prohibited from infringing on critical liberties such as speech and religion, freedom could be protected from the caprices of the mob.
America's federal government long ago shed the chains of the Constitution, and today, it possesses the power to dictate the amount of toilet water we can flush, what type of light bulb we use to light our homes, how we can use our land, and how much of our income we are permitted to keep. Moreover, our government has now cloaked itself with the power to decide whether we will be permitted to receive life-saving medical care. . . . It's little wonder that democracy is the favorite refrain of the socialist; the Socialist Party USA's website uses the word sixteen times in its brief Statement of Principles. It is natural that they would promote democracy, since the productive are always vastly outnumbered by the moochers. The Communist Manifesto says that the revolution should be accomplished by establishing democratic constitutions and that democracy should be "immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property[.]" Democracy allows the lazy majority to vote itself a portion of what the productive have earned -- it is, as someone once described it, two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
And so it has gone for America. We have indeed degenerated into a democracy -- socialism is firmly established and has openly won two consecutive presidential elections. The wolves have voted, and we are being served for dinner."
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