Here in America, as in all free societies, we’ve always functioned under a simple, but essential concept – the principle of majority rule. It has its flaws, but it’s vastly superior to totalitarian regimes, dictatorships, and oligarchies.
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democracy
Notable Quote – Goerge Will
The Declaration is not just chronologically prior to the Constitution, it is logically prior. As Timothy Sandefur writes, the Declaration “sets the framework for reading” the Constitution, so it is the Constitution’s “conscience”: By the terms with which the Declaration articulates the Constitution’s purpose – the purpose is to “secure” unalienable rights – the Declaration intimates … Read more
Holding Politicians Accountable
In the land called America, citizens exercise their power through the ballot box. Hence, when you vote in America, you vote for our freedom. When you decide to vote for a candidate, it is your civic duty to make sure that person has been thoroughly vetted and has answered your questions openly and publicly. America … Read more
Don’t Tell Me America Is A Democracy
Don’t tell me America is a democracy, those are fighting words. Many people, media included, endlessly say America is a democracy. That is wrong. If we have become a democracy, it is a betrayal of our founders. The founders correctly saw democracy as a form of tyranny. The word democracy does not appear in our … Read more
Notable Quote – Richard E. Wagner
Yet democracy and liberty cannot be complementary political values, at least not without significant effort at constitutional reconciliation. At base, democracy embraces the principle that majorities dominate minorities. In contrast, liberty is a principle of non-domination whereby interaction among people is governed by principles of private property and not by majority rule -Richard E. Wagner … Read more
Abolish the Planning Board?
Yesterday the Union Leader reported on my petition to abolish the Planning Board, that will be put forth from a group of concerned citizens. Here’s why. We saw this year that group of citizens can follow the law and propose a citizens amendment to zoning ordinance. They collected the signatures, wrote the petition, and presented … Read more
NH Dems Diversity Olympics
The New Hampshire Democrats submitted their plan for delegate selection to the National Democrat Party, and it was accepted. The 76-page document (76 pages?) can be read here. Luckily they included comments at the end on the overall delegate selection rules put forth by the DNC. Some, including Senate President Donna Soucy (D- Manchester) are … Read more
New Hampshire Democrats Still Can’t Get Over Redistricting Commission Fail
I guess you call it keeping the dream alive. What dream? An unelected commission filled with the sorts of politically connected goons the 17th Amendment promised to end for US Senate Seats. Am 17 created more problems than it solved. So would HB706.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw – Democrats v. Republicans (Democracy v. Republic)
Some of the usual suspects are once again publicly bashing the Electoral College. DNC communications specialist, Chris Hayes, working at MSNBC, sums up their collective wisdom. The only reason it’s constitutional is that it is in the constitution.
Democracy
Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” Indeed, America’s founders viewed it with suspicion and probably fear as they hemmed ours in on every side, lest the country fall into mob rule. But what is Democracy? Rules of political … Read more
The night Westeros became a Republic (and allowed secession)
If you watched the Game of Thrones finale last night, did you make the same critical observations I did? If you never succumbed to the Game of Thrones mania, please stick with me – I guarantee my point applies to everyone, regardless. In one of the final scenes, the condemned Tyrion Lannister was brought out … Read more
Democracy v. Capitalism – Bill Whittle Has the Answer You’ve Been Looking For…
The internet is huge. Really huge. So incredibly huge…never mind, I’ll get to the point. You can’t see everything that’s out there so when we find something exceptional, we like to share. This is one of those times. Bill Whittle is tremendous, but this clip about Capitalism makes him more exceptional.
Bernie Sanders: “We Need to do a Better job Explaining What We Mean by Socialism”
In an interview with Government-run State radio Comrade Sanders, Bernie Sanders speaks to many topics. But the one I found most interesting was socialism. How do you address the socialist label, which for those who forgot is a label he more or less gave to himself.
Notable Quote – Alexis De Tocqueville
It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.” -Alexis De Tocquivelle (“Democracy in America”) And here … Read more
DISQUS Doodlings at Treehugger: “Actually, there is just one key action needed to fight climate change: Vote.” – Part 1
Part 1 – that is, if I can keep myself on target for the rest. The above quote is the title of a post by Lloyd Alter in stating that there is really only one way to solve the Climate Change crisis – and that is to vote and he goes on to say there are lots of things that can be done, proposes 5 main themes, and then admits that because folks like him and those at TreeHugger have failed to persuade Normal folks like us to voluntarily take up the hairshirt and ditch our cars, get rid of our stuff, live in tiny apartments and have to shop every day for groceries because of small fridges (it’s good for you to be out and talk to your neighbors!) and have to walk everywhere……we’ll use our votes to force Government to force you to live the way we want you to (emphasis mine):
Notable Quote: Democracy, Socialism and Equality
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty; socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude” — de Tocqueville
The Embrace of Administrative Despotism – A Notable Quote
Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they can not destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all powerful from of government, but … Read more
The Worldwide Decline of Democracy: Post-liberalism and the emergence of “Pre-liberal” democracy
From today’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens opines on what “post-liberal” democracy is bringing to this world. “Much of modern European democracy,” he writes, “is of a post-liberal variety. Post-liberalism seeks to replace the classical liberalism of individual liberty, limited government, property rights and democratic sovereignty with a new liberalism that favors….