All The Pearl Clutching About Saving Or Destroying "Our Sacred Democracy" When The U.S. Is ACTUALLY A Constitutional Republic!

"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

IF we are going to save this sinking American ship we need to start with THE basic premise of what we are!

Pop quiz! How many times is “democracy” mentioned in the Constitution?

NOT ONCE!

How many times is “Republican Form of Government” mentioned?

ONCE! In 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; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Hunter, 1790

Jefferson recognized the secret war that occurs under a democracy, a war for power and control. The secret war is fought in many political systems. There is a reason Plato said, “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy.”

Proof we don't live in a democracy

1. Representatives in the House are apportioned by the population in a state. However, every state regardless of population has two Senators. The Senate was not designed to represent the citizens of the states, it was set up to represent the state governments. Senators were not chosen by voters, but by the legislatures of each state, and called back by their respective state legislatures for not properly representing their states. Until the 17th Amendment changed that to general election and now, they live in Washington DC and follow their own agenda and not the state's! It is said this was payback for approving the 16th Amendment regarding income tax.

2. The Electoral College which levels the playing field in the Presidential election, by giving each state a voice, instead of the President being elected by the most populated states, which for the most part are Democrat controlled, which is why it is so despised with calls for its removal.

3. The filibuster in the legislative process guarantees that the party not in power still has a say in policy. This is why Democrat politicians when in the majority promise to remove it because “it hinders the legislative process”, but viciously defend it when they are the minority.   

Every aspect of our republic has been carefully crafted so that the minority and their rights will not be stripped away by the majority.

What did the Founders think of democracy?

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. - Alexander Hamilton

Hamilton knew in a democracy the majority have the right to take away the rights of the minority simply by being the majority.

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths...,

We may define a republic to be ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; - James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787)

Hmmm. Sounds like the “Uniparty”, doesn't it?

Other thoughts on democracy

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. -Edmund Burke

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free. - Jacque Fresco

Fun fact: The French Revolution was an attempt to set up a democracy. We saw how that degenerated into a bloodbath known as the Reign of Terror. At least 300,000 suspects were arrested, 17,000 were officially executed, and probably 10,000 died in prison. The slaughter only ended when Napoleon Bonaparte became the Dictator of France.

Some Franklin Delano Roosevelt “chicanery”

Our military training manuals used to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. From the Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.

DEMOCRACY:

A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

REPUBLIC:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.

Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

The manuals containing these definitions were ordered destroyed without explanation about the same time that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce.

And just like that, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the most popular president of the 20th century, actually elected four times, on his “other day of infamy” with Executive Order 6102, stole almost half of this nation's wealth, while convincing the people that it was for their own good!

Many of F.D.R.'s policies were suggested by his right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, including “the New Deal”, which effectively extended the Great Depression till World War II.

Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference. - Harry Hopkins

For your edification, two thirds of “elites” think there's too much freedom in America

The study, titled “Them Vs. U.S,” defined the American “elite” as “having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, and living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile.” Such people account for about 1 percent of Americans. The study also examined a sub-sample of the 1 percent who graduated from Ivy League schools or other name-brand institutions such as Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of registered voters have the exact opposite opinion, reporting the United States has too much top-down control, limiting liberty. 

With all this evidence, why do people insist on “democracy”? Two possibilities or both:

1. There are individuals in this country spreading the “disinformation” that America is a democracy and actively working to destroy the Constitutional Republic.

From The Heritage Foundation by Bernard Dobski Ph.D.

A 2017 Pew Research survey found that 67 percent of those Americans polled considered a system in which citizens voted directly on “major national issues” to be a good thing. The National Citizens Initiative for Democracy, sponsored by former Senator Mike Gravel (D–AK) and endorsed by the likes of Noam Chomsky and the late Howard Zinn, calls for direct democracy through the creation of an independent “Legislature of the People,” which would allow American citizens to amend the Constitution directly and pass laws of their own choosing, bypassing both state and federal legislatures in the process. Tom Steyer, in his bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee, called for something similar. In the spirit of ever more democracy, he advocated the use of national referenda on two major policy debates a year and repeatedly attacked the Electoral College as undemocratic.

From The New York Times Opinion Piece, There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to Be a Citizen to Vote:

This essay is part of a series exploring bold ideas to revitalize and renew the American experiment.

WHAT?

Or #2

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

- Benjamin Franklin

Closing on a humorous note

Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, biting satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He voraciously commented on society, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary life. He reported on and coined the phrase “the Scopes Monkey Trial”. I urge you to read some of his quotes and writings. One I found particulary interesting:

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken