Why the Democrats Want Democracy

By Douglas V. Gibbs
Author, Speaker, Instructor, Radio Host

Democracy is a tool. A transitional form of government that allows the purveyors of an impossible utopia to destroy society so that they may raise up a Marxist paradise. The problem is, their goal is an unattainable dream, and a socialistic nightmare that historically always gives rise to starvation, death, and violence. While they say they seek equality, what they achieve is equity in misery.

The father of the Democrat Party was Andrew Jackson. While he fought against many of the things today's liberal left Democrats embrace, like a national bank, and centralized control through an overpowering system based on federal supremacy, the reason they consider him the father of the Democrat Party is because it was Jackson who championed democracy. He claimed to love the Constitution, but he believed there were too many flaws in a republic. He had morphed "consent of the governed" into "will of the people," which is not what was truly meant by the former phrase that can be found in the Declaration of Independence.  He compromised the Electoral College, and with John Marshall, set in motion the components that led to the loss of States' Rights after an unecessary bloody war between the States, the rise of the Progressive Era, and the creation of the 17th Amendment.

Quote after quote by the Founding Fathers reveals that they did not support the idea of a pure democracy. The idea of a pure democracy was seen as being foolish, and a sure path towards national suicide.

Democracy is based on the principle of majority rule (mob rule). All legislation, all representation, and all governmental functions, in a true democracy, are voted on by the people. The proponents of socialism believe that the rights of the individuals are trumped by the best interest of the society as a whole, based on their belief in collectivism; as evidenced by their use of terms like "The general good," "the common good," and "general civility."

Karl Marx once said, “Democracy is the road to socialism”.

Karl Marx, the father of communism, understood that the implementation of Democracy is a necessary step in the process of destroying our Constitutional Republic. Once the people are fooled to believe that they can receive gifts from the treasury rather than as individuals achieve their livelihood, they will continually vote in the people who ensure the entitlements continue to flow. Eventually, this mindset of government dependency becomes the majority. This group, which has changed over time from an involved electorate to a populace who lacks the understanding of the principles of liberty and can easily be manipulated into believing that sacrificing individual liberty in exchange for social justice and security is just fine, also plays into the hands of those who wish them to vote into power a tyranny.

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety“. -- Benjamin Franklin

Once the majority of the voters in a Democracy become the recipients of benefits from the Federal Government, the government achieves unchecked power, and may then violate the property rights of the productive members of society in order to provide benefits to the non-productive members of society. This is best characterized in the "tax the rich" scheme that Democrats of today continue to support.

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may
take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” -- Thomas Jefferson

The Founding Fathers knew that in order to preserve our Constitutional Republic it was imperative for the people to be a moral and religious people, drawing their belief of individualism and personal responsibility from their religious moral belief system. Achievement, and the ability to keep most of what one earns, is what made this nation prosper, and the desire to act in such a manner is rooted in Judeo-Christian principles.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other“. -- John Adams
　
The Founding Fathers divided power as much as possible, including the power of the vote. Originally the State Legislatures appointed the electors who cast their votes in the Presidential Election. That changed in 1824 to the electors largely following the popular vote.

Originally the U.S. Senators were appointed by the State Legislatures, which ensured the voice of the States was present in the federal government. That changed in 1913 with the 17th Amendment, which transferred the vote for the U.S. Senators to the popular vote. The Founding Fathers divided the voting power as they did partially because if the power to vote for president, the House, and the Senate was all given to the people, and if the people were fooled by some political ideology that wished to destroy the republic by fundamentally changing the American System, a tyranny could be easily voted into control of all parts of the government without any checks whatsoever. When the majority of voters are uninformed in such a manner, tyranny is inevitable.

"Democracy impairs the security of all.” -- John F. Kennedy

Winston Churchill also understood the dangers of trusting an uninformed electorate with the capacity to govern.

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” -- Winston Churchill

The importance of an educated electorate, so as to guard against the deceptions of a smiling politician that wishes to bring about "change", and ultimately to create a centralized system that takes away all of our freedoms, is paramount.

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army“ -- Edward Everett

Our republic is a representative system that separates the powers for a reason.

“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy“. -- Plato

“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination“. -- Voltaire

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state“. -- Noam Chomsky

“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame“. --Bertrand Russell

“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy“. -- Benito Mussolini

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
　
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Charles de Montesquieu　

Democracy is a transitional governmental system that ultimately leads to tyranny. This was true in the days of the French Revolution no less than it is true today.

While democracy lasts it becomes more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. -- John Adams

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner” -- James Bovard
　
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” -- George Washington

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” -- George Washington, Farewell Address 1796

In the end, voters in a democracy can be fooled, manipulated, and convinced to put into a position of power men who do not aim to govern, but men who aim to rule over the people, and do so with unquestioned power.

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