It always amuses me when my mom says something like "democracy is the worst form of government, not counting all the others". She is deeply "patriotic" and believes she has an obligation to support the USA no matter what- while still protesting the things she sees as "non-Christian" that it does. This shows me that she doesn't get it.
I also get amused at those who say "America is a republic, not a democracy". That may have been true in the beginning, but no more.
It stopped being a republic the first time the Constitution didn't stop a gun "law" from being passed and enforced- whether that was Wyatt Earp's doing or whoever. If not before.
It is now a democracy where the "majority" (even when they are a minority) can get anything imposed on the rest regardless of the laws that were supposed to protect the minority from the majority.
The only authentic laws are those which protect the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (including property) of the individual. And they weren't even necessary. All other "laws" are counterfeit.
No, there is nothing "good" about a democracy. And, while the notion of a republic might have been well-intentioned, the reality sucks.
"Laws" can change. It doesn't even take a majority to change them. It only takes one congresscritter who can bribe other congresscritters. It only takes one corrupt judge. It only takes one power-mad president. Sometimes, it only takes a small, loud group of whiny activists who have connections. As long as "laws" that violate the liberty of someone else can be passed and enforced just because they are popular, you have a democracy. You have tyranny.
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The first "gun law" that I know of in the US was the Second Militia Act of 1792, so if gun laws are the dividing line you set between "republic" and "democracy," the change happened pretty early.
ReplyDeleteThat's just one example. Maybe the line was when Washington crushed the first "tax" protesters in the Whiskey Rebellion. Or it might have even been before that.
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