 What does "Spreading Democracy" Mean?
Democracy |diˈmäkrəsē| noun: A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state. Control of an organization or group by the majority of its members. ORIGIN late 16th century: from French démocratie, via late Latin from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos ‘the people’ + -kratia ‘power, rule.’
The word "Democracy" comes from two words: Demos meaning "people," and Kratia meaning "to rule," therefore democracy means "Majority Rule". Majority rule may sound like a good idea, but essentially it actually translates to mean "mob rule." The flaw of Democracy is that the majority is NOT "restrained" - meaning if more than half of the people can be persuaded to want something in a democracy, that whim will rule.
plebiscite |ˈplebəˌsīt| noun: the DIRECT VOTE of ALL the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution.
• Roman History: a law enacted by the plebeians' assembly.
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy
will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they
can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that
moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
— Alexander Tyler (1787)
"[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they
wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all -
security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to
give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they
wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to
be free and was never free again." — Edward Gibbon
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" — Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner." — James Bovard (1994)
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'Liberalism',
they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day
America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I
no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist
Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
— Norman Thomas (1944)
 A Democracy is most simply majority rule. In a REAL democracy EVERYONE VOTES ON EVERYTHING! Democracies need NO constitution because laws can be changed at anytime to fit the needs of the majority vote.
Minorities will typically lose their rights and be persecuted in a
democracy. For example, if 51% of the people are adults, the majority
can vote to have kids do all the work - and the kids could not do
anything about losing this vote in a democracy.
"Our real disease - which is democracy."
— Alexander Hamilton
Democracies work fine if we're talking about a family of
four voting on what to have for dinner - but when you consider how much
work is involved in having EVERYONE in a country as large as the United
States, vote on every single issue brought up in
Congress everyday = you'll realize why our founding fathers gave us a
Republican form of government - as opposed to a democracy. Our founders
knew this well because the early Greek democracies all failed, and
actually produced some of the most tyranical governments in the history
of the world.
"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
Many people would be surprised to learn that the word "democracy" does NOT appear in the Declaration of Independence, NOR in the U.S. Constitution,
NOR does the word "democracy" appear in any of the Constitutions of the
50 States. However our founding fathers knew exactly what democracy was
and were adamant in insisting that the USA be a REPUBLIC - rather than a
democracy, which the John Birch Society describes as a transition between a Republic and an Oligarchy.
In fact our founders did everything they could to protect the United
States from ending up with a "democracy" form of government.
"It is well known that there have always been those amongst us who wish to ENLARGE the powers of the General Government,
and experience would seem to indicate that there is a tendency on the
part of this Government to overstep the boundaries marked out for it by
the Constitution. Its legitimate authority is abundantly sufficient for all the purposes for which it was created, and its powers being expressly enumerated, there can be no justification for claiming anything beyond them. Every attempt to exercise power beyond these limits should be promptly and firmly opposed, for one evil example will lead to other measures still more mischievous; and if the principle of constructive powers or supposed advantages or temporary circumstances (9/11) shall ever be permitted to justify the assumption of a power not given by the Constitution,
the General Government will before long absorb all the powers of
legislation, and you will have in effect but one consolidated
government."
— Andrew Jackson (who paid off our ENTIRE national debt after abolishing our corrupt central bank)
"We can keep a Republic, or we will eventually end up with an Oligarchy - a tyranny of the elite." — Benjamin Franklin
"We are a Republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy." — Alexander Hamilton
"A democracy is a volcano which conceals
the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an
eruption and carry desolation in their way. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness [disregarding accepted rules or conventions] which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty."
— Fisher Ames
The Founding Fathers had good reason to think of democracy
with contempt, due to their knowledge of history of democracy in the
early Greek city-states which produced some of the wildest excesses of
government imaginable - in every case ending up with mob rule leading to
anarchy and finally tyranny under an oligarchy. During that period in
Greece, there was a man named Solan who urged creation of a fixed body
of laws which are not subject to majority whims, however the Greeks
never adopted his ideas.
The Romans adopted Solan’s ideas and created the twelve
tables of the Roman Law and built a Republic that limited Government
power and left the people alone. Since government was limited, the
people were free to produce, with the understanding that they could keep
the fruits of their labor, and in time Rome became wealthy and the envy
of the world. |
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