No, Joe, Democracy is Not 'The Essence of Who We Are'
“Democracy is the essence of who we are.”—Joe Biden.
Biden recently made the remark above in a 38-second Twitter clip that had to be edited eight times to make him appear lucid. Biden, of course, knows little or nothing of true American history. Sadly, most of his fellow countrymen don’t either, a fact the Left ruthlessly exploits. He is dead wrong in the statement above, at least historically and in more ways than one. Let me elucidate.
1. America is a republic, not a democracy.
In his 38-second clip, Biden implied that our Constitution created a democracy, which it certainly did not. It established a republic with very limited power in the federal government. The last thing our Founders wanted was a democracy. James Madison, the main author of the Constitution, wrote: “Democracy is the most vile form of government.” And “the purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's [democracy’s] ability to harm a minority.” Contrary to establishing a democracy, Madison said our Constitution was designed specifically to protect against it! But I doubt very seriously that Joe Biden knows this. Or would he care if he did?
2. Biden’s statement is wrong because the misnamed Democratic Party not only doesn’t believe in a republic, they don’t believe in democracy, either. Well, in one sense, they do, as I shall explain below. The Democratic Party is trying to create a totalitarian government where all power is centralized in their hands. In a democracy (Greek, “rule by the people”) and in a republic (Latin, “things of the people”), the government’s power comes from the people and thus is (supposed to be) limited by what the people allow it to do. “To secure these [natural, God-given] rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” Jefferson wrote in America’s Declaration of Independence. In a republic (and a democracy), the people choose their own rulers. In a totalitarian system, the government chooses the leaders. Given his own actions, Biden’s statement above is laughable.
Biden and his political party have been using the power of government for the last eight years, and especially the past several months, via his Justice Department to try to deprive half of the American people of their “democratic” right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Biden and the Democrats have applied the force of government to attempt to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the next President. That isn’t democracy. It’s tyranny, the exercise of government power to allow the “Party,” not the people, to decide who will serve like Nazism. Every time a member of the Democratic Party says the word “democracy,” they are being hypocritical, for such is the last thing they have been truly practicing.
In a democracy, all citizens (theoretically) are to be equal under the law (as in a republic). That doesn’t mean everybody has the same rights. We don’t, never have, and never will give babies the right to vote. But their natural rights (of which voting is not one) are protected unless (per the Left) they are still in the womb. According to Democrats, the right to life doesn’t exist until you are born, not when you start living at conception. However, equality under the law is supposed to be a cardinal doctrine of people-controlled societies, governments “of, by, and for” the people. It’s totalitarian governments that give special privileges—such as DEI—to certain favored classes. DEI and the Deep State are the American nomenklatura—government-created groups who have special privileges because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or where they work (or whom they vote for). Don’t call that “democratic” equality under the law. You could call it “tyranny,” and our Founding Fathers no doubt would.
Things like DEI are the main reason our Founders did NOT establish a democracy. The problem, as they saw it, was that, in a democracy, the “people” don’t rule; only the majority does. 50%+1 equals a democratic majority. Thus, if 50%+1 of the people decide to deny 50%-1 of their rights, then that’s democracy. It may not be fair, just, or right, but it’s certainly not undemocratic. It’s also happened in America many times and is happening right now under Joe Biden and his DEI and DOJ. If he can just get the votes, he can do whatever he wants. So, yeah, in one sense, democracy IS the “essence of who we are.” Its tyrannical nature has certainly become the essence of what the Democratic Party has become.
Folks, the Left doesn’t care HOW it obtains totalitarian power. If they can do it by “democratic” means (as Hitler did in 1933), well and good. And if they can convince 50%+1 of the American people to throw Donald Trump in jail...well, that’s democracy. Or what our Founders called the “tyranny of democracy.”
James Madison: “Democracy is the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.”
America was supposed to be a limited government, virtuous republic, not a democracy. A republic where the federal government (and “democracy”) are limited by a Constitution that specifically defines the powers that can be exercised, a federal government of checks and balances so that no branch of government can gain too much control, a federal government with frequent elections so that tyrants can be removed before they destroy the country, a republic where the vast majority of the governmental power was to reside in the hands of the states (read the 10th Amendment), and if one of those states tyrannically exercised ITS powers, you have 49 others to choose from. But if the federal government becomes tyrannical, where do you flee? (Thailand?) Our Founders knew exactly what they were doing, and establishing democracy as “the essence of who we are” was definitely NOT what they did.
And their wisdom is abundantly evident in the tyrannical, “democratic” reign of Joe Biden.
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