“Democracy never lasts
long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy
yet that did not commit suicide.” - John Adams
It cannot be
said enough: America is not, should not be, a democracy. This needs to be
realized before citizens can determine the goals and ambitions of those they
vote into office. A case in point is Barack Obama who dwells on a democracy, fights
for one and the sad point is that the majority of voters realize too late what he
means as he promotes it. When he was campaigning in 2008 he did not hide his
intentions.
“… we are five days
away from fundamentally transforming the
United States of America.” (Emphasis added) - Barack Obama October 30,
2008 campaign rally in Columbia, Missouri
And six plus
years later he has veered little from his vision as stated in the final words
of his 2015 state of the union address.
“Fifteen years into
this new century, we have picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and begun
again the work of remaking America.
We have laid a new foundation. A
brighter future is ours to write.” (Emphasis added) - Barack Obama State
of the Union Jan 20th 2015
America has a
foundation. We don’t need a new one. We don’t need to remake America, we need
to restore it. Again, we are not a democracy but that is what Obama and the secular
progressive left is driving for, even if they don’t or won’t recognize it. Our
founding fathers were dead set against this avenue of government as John Adams said
in the quote above. All his partners agreed.
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may
take away the rights of the other 49%.” - Thomas Jefferson
“The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human
governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.”
- John Quincy Adams
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” - Benjamin
Franklin (maybe)
“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like
that between order and chaos.” - John Marshall
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will
herald the end of the republic.” - Benjamin
Franklin
Those who abhor
a republic realize a democracy is the path to another form of government.
“Democracy is the road to socialism.” - Karl Marx
Obama has a
vision, but it’s the wrong vision for America. I hope the majority of Americans
have come to learn the difference and in our next voting cycle choose a
president who will use the sense our founders instilled within our republic. Not
that change is bad, it is not. But change by a way that supports and enhances
the principles this nation was formed upon and has served us so well for so
long. We should seek to change when our principles lead us to understand we are
at odds with them. Slavery is wrong and though it took too long, our values helped
us recognize and change that. The same thing goes for women’s rights. Our foundational
values and principles directed us to do the right thing and it always will when
we don’t abandon them.
But we need to
put in office people, who understand our republic, our founding moralities, the
original vision so well established in the Declaration, Constitution and Bill
of Rights. There are many people who understand this and we need to focus on
these people to take offices for us. Just one great example is Dr. Ben Carson
and I hope we might elect him as president in 2016.
“Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without
this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our second president, John
Adams, who said of our thoroughly researched and developed governing document,
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other.”
“We the People”
need to learn, spread the knowledge and then elect people who will restore this
nation, not remake it, to the republic it was intended to be.
“Perhaps instead of
screaming at each other, it is time to engage in intelligent conversation about
our desire to preserve the rights granted by our Constitution.” - Dr. Ben
Carson
I leave you
with James Madison’s definition of a republic.
“We may define a republic to be - a government which derives all its
powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is
administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited
period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it
be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable
proportion or a favored class of it: otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles,
exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to
the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of
republic.”
James Madison
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