Democracy no more than mob rule

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for March 5, 2025)

Has your democracy been lost yet? Has someone stolen it?

Silly questions for a silly era asked of silly people who worship mob rule as long as they are on the majority side. They have no problem ignoring the will of those who disagree with them; they only wring their hands when they end up on the losing side.

America was never supposed to be a democracy. It was set up as a republic, limited in scope by a constitution which defined exactly what government is allowed to do to the population, regardless of what the majority wants. This failed.

Republics, including those defined and limited by a constitution, turn into democracies because people, in overwhelming numbers, want to violate the rights of others and vote themselves goodies paid for with taxes. With no one in power willing to say, "Hey, you can't do that no matter how popular it is because the Constitution doesn't permit it", things go haywire. You end up with a de facto democracy.

Democracies turn into authoritarian tyrannies since the push is to regulate what people are allowed to do a little more with each passing year.

Now we find ourselves in a situation where there isn't any part of our lives that isn't subject to arbitrary and absurd government rules which a majority of voters, or their elected representatives, thought were a good idea. 

Those rules were not good ideas. They were tyranny wrapped in democracy and shoved down our throats because we are outnumbered. As long as people believe they have to keep voting for "their side" no matter how badly it behaves, it will get worse.

Democracy is mob rule. It is "might (through superior numbers) makes 'right'". It means you are prohibited from exercising your rights if the majority of voters and their elected political criminals choose to ignore your rights.

Democracy is a lie. The choices you are allowed to choose between are selected by people who want to rule you and seize your property. Losing democracy wouldn't be the worst thing. It only matters what, if anything, replaces it.

You have a right to govern yourself, as an individual. You have no right to govern even one other person, nor can you elect someone to do something you have no right to do. Doing things you have no right to do is the wrong choice and puts everyone in peril. Choose to do right instead.

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