Why is government upside down?
This entry was posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 10:02 AM and is filed under How Things Should Be.
What has happened to the Constitutional Republic that America was founded to be? Why is it that we are constantly told that America is a democracy? Why is everyone pushing for the middle eastern countries to become democracies? Believe it or not America was not founded to be a democracy.
A democracy is basically mob rule, what ever group can fuss the loudest and convince the greatest number of people to go along with it gains control and with control in modern America comes the ability to throw money at the populace and maintain that power. Look to the novel "lord of the flies", those little hellions were operating under the democratic form of government, if you went to government schools in the last 20 years then you know from having to read that book how democracy turned out for them.
Here are some quotes regarding democracy:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." Alexander Tyler.
Bondage for us could be construed to include life under the English in the Colonies and up to the end of the American Civil War. Great Courage would be WWI and WWII, Liberty would be the 50's -70's, Abundance would be the 80's and 90's, we are now moving into selfishness and complacency, a great many of our current citizens have passed the rest of us and are already in the dependency stage. These folks rely on the government to supply their needs and feel that all problems warrant a government response.
"In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." [Voltaire]
For a Frenchman Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet ) was a pretty smart guy who valued personal freedom. Try to find a copy of his essays they are really good reading, his novel Candide is hilarious and thought provoking as well. It is hard to find his writings in the book stores but they can be found on the Internet.
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."[H. L. Mencken]
"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" [Dosteovsky's 'Grand Inquisitor']
"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the literalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood." Adolf Hitler
Have you noticed that everyone has to be a member of some group now days? That everything has to be for the group as a whole and that individual thoughts and actions are frowned upon. I realize that Hitler is commonly associated with the right side of the political spectrum rather than the left, but I hold that this is incorrect, the Nazi's, Italian Fascist, and Russian Communist have much more in common with todays left than todays right.
Fascism is defined as an authoritative form of government, if the confiscation and redistribution of personal wealth and property isn't authoritative then what is? If mandating where you go to the doctor and how much it will cost isn't authoritative then what is?
Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization, based on the common ownership of the means of production. Again think very hard and try to determine which side leans more to communist ideal? The left or the right?
I have digressed a bit. Let me write a little on the Constitutional Republic we are supposed to be. The founders of our Country made a deliberate attempt to protect us from "mob" ocracy, by setting us up to be governed by laws instead of the whim of the people. They did this by setting up a system that allowed popularly elected represnitives of the people to govern us with in the limits of a group of laws set forth in a Constitution ( a written statement outlining the basic laws or principles by which a country or organization is governed
Encarta (r) World English Dictionary (c) & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.) rather than the popular vote of the people to have legislative authority. This concept has been usurped I feel since around the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt ( who among the many other injuries he inflicted upon the Country also advanced the use of Kudzu as an anti-erosion measure in the South).
Our Constitutional Republic was laid out in such a way that no group or person can rise to absolute power. It was split into 3 separate branches the executive, legislative, and judicial. The division between these 3 has become increasingly smaller in the last 1/2 century. With Executive orders the executive branch legislates, with Un- Constitutional rulings the judicial legislates, and with Un-Constitutional obstructions of the other branches the legislative branch usurps the executive and judicial.
"a representative polity established on fundamental law, each person has the right to pursue and fulfill his or her unobtrusive vision of the good life. In such a society, the common good is the cumulative product of free and equal individuals who pursue meaningful aims." Alexander Tsesis
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