Democracy is tyranny. It was true in ancient Greece and it is true today. America was designed to foster a spirit of freedom. The nation, through the Constitution, as written, promotes enterprise among its people. The U.S. Constitution intends to thwart tyranny from majority rule. America is a free-market society.
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Her founding principles are antithetical to socialism.
Democracy is rule by the people. But people do not directly rule any currently existing society… none.
James Madison wrote in Federalist 10, “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incomparable with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
The central principle of democracy is majority rule. So, why do majorities have a right to rule? Should the citizens of a large country dominate the citizens of a smaller country simply because they are more numerous? Why should a majority of society be able to hold sway over the whole society? Why should the majority have absolute decision-making authority not merely for themselves but also for the minority? Think about it.
What is the difference between democracy and mob rule?
What if the majority makes rules which favor itself? Should the majority be able to confiscate the property of the minority? How about if the majority makes rules which discriminate against the minority? Should the majority be able to force the minority to build houses in a specified way?
Should the majority be able to force the minority to pay for the majority’s children to attend college? How about pay for the majority’s healthcare? How about if the majority were to pass a law to seize the wealth of the wealthiest, say five or one hundred and five citizens? Socialists never run short of ideas for taking from others for their own gain. They never tire of controlling other people’s lives.
A majority cannot choose to enslave others. Doing so is making a choice to deny choice to someone else. No majority has the right to steal the bread made by the sweat of others.
Popular sovereignty amounts to saying if one man chooses to enslave another; no third man is allowed to object. That’s an Abraham Lincoln argument. It means majority rule amounts to the legitimization of tyranny.
Lincoln said, “The man who labored for another last year, this year labors for himself, and next year he will hire others to labor for him.” He cautioned, “Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one of his own.”
Today’s Socialists, Democrats showed us with CHAZ how well their vision works. We all have a choice. Which side are you on? There will be no neutrals. Choose well; if you choose poorly the only way to reverse the choice will be by the barrel of a gun. Democracy is tyranny.