Op-ed:
Republic v.
Democracy...America v. Mob Rule
By: Diane Sori /
The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
“
Democracy
is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is
a well-armed lamb contesting the vote”...we are "A Republic...if
you can keep it.”
- Benjamin
Franklin after the Continental Convention when asked if we are a
republic or a monarchy
The Greek historian Polybius wrote that
democracy descends into mob rule...“ochlocracy” he called
it. And Polybius' words were as right then as they are right now for
we can see mob rule...two more words added to the Democrats ever
growing list of politically incorrect words we dare not
say...becoming commonplace in today's America as Democrats and their
misguided ilk take to the streets in protest, as if on cue, over some self-perceived indignation while they relish in trampling
on other folks “inalienable
rights.”
“
Inalienable
rights”...Constitution granted
rights...have
been replaced by ongoing
“outrage” from the left with
their incessant political polarization helping to divide Republicans
and Democrats even more so along strict party ideological lines. And
to make matters worse, what was once but Democrat partisan apathy
has now morphed into all-encompassing overt hate of any and everything Republicans
in Congress propose coupled with a special kind of all-consuming targeted hate
against any and everyone President Donald Trump nominates no matter
the position he nominates them for.
Total
political dysfunction and major meltdown by the Democrats to the nth
degree...a true political circus of the absurd...replete with at
times violent protests by those who still cannot accept that Hillary
Clinton did not become Barack HUSSEIN Obama's third term in office.
And these protests more times than not see protesters bused-in when
and where they are needed...professional protesters if you will...protesters
bought and paid for by George Soros and his ilk whose job it is to
incite violence by working up via intimidation what was peaceful protesters into an angry mob and
to do so in the name of democracy...their twisted version of democracy that
is.
Calling
themselves “the
resistance” as they
scream and spew that “this
is what democracy looks like,” the
sad fact is that in a way they are right...up to a point that
is...for what is democracy but government
rule by the majority of its people...and if that majority is made up
of mobs than so be it. And in today's volatile political climate if
one is not part of the current media anointed majority then threats,
accusations, lies, and when needed...violence...is used to turn the
fearful, the gullible, and the weak into blind followers of what
amounts to mob rule...with it being critical that the majority must
not be restrained in imposing its will on the minority.
But
these “resistance”
sorts do forget that America was never set up to be a democracy...what
some call or refer to as a
“pure democracy”
where the people themselves not elected officials vote on all
matters of
great concern to them...but that America was set up to be a republic...a
federal republic*...where the true power lies within its own citizenry who
vote for elected officials who they feel are best suited to represent
both their wishes and wants, who while at the same time must be
responsible to those who elected them, and who most importantly must
govern according to the law...
Constitutional
law that is. And in the republic that is America most
importantly of all is that We the People's
“inalienable
rights” cannot be
taken away by the government even if that government has been elected
by a majority of voters.
In
fact, some of our Founders and Framers were truly leery of democracy
for they feared that overt and dedicated political passions could
work the public up into such a frenzy that in a very short period of
time it could become paramount to mob rule and abject
tyranny. “Democracy never lasts long,” wrote
America's second President John Adams in a December 1814 letter to
Virginia state legislature member John Taylor. “It soon wastes,
exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that
did not commit suicide,” were
Adams' words added for he blamed democracies...which he felt
were no different than monarchies...for bloodshed and war.
Alexander
Hamilton, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers,
wrote, "We are
now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not
found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If
we incline too much to democracy we shall soon shoot into a monarchy,
or some other form of a dictatorship.”
In fact, in the last letter he ever penned Hamilton actually warned
that "our
real disease is Democracy.” And
James Madison, our nation's fourth president and the
"father of the Constitution" wrote in the Federalist Paper No. 10 that,
“Pure democracies
have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever
been incompatible 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.”
In
other words, our Founders and Framers were leery of both the concept
of democracy itself as well as its ever being the form of government
our new nation was to take. And leery they were to such a degree that
they placed into the Constitution itself Article IV, Section 4
which states, "The United States shall guarantee to every
State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” “Republican”
as in “republic”
not in the Republican party in
case the question arises...which I'm sure some liberal sorts will
raise in their effort to remove from governance the very document
from which our nation was born.
So
while the uninformed...which encompasses the vast majority of Democrats...keep clamoring
that with America being a democracy...they absolutely refuse to
accept the fact that it is not...that they still have the right to
protest via any means they themselves see fit. And while we all have
the right to protest under the First Amendment as it gives us the right to
free speech, but, and this is critical, the First Amendment itself
puts the breaks on violent protest via its words, “the
right of the people to peacefully assemble.”
“To peacefully assemble” in
no way means the now mob tactics being used by the left that either
borders on or actually is violence...tactics that not only
help to stir the pot of political discontent via bullying,
threatening words, and hate...but are tactics that truly do border on
both the traitorous and the criminal. How so? Calling for the
“removal” of our duly elected president and now Supreme
Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as well, and doing so while gathered in
protest while screaming the words "by any means possible”
surely does not meet the Constitution's nor the legal definition of
“peaceful assembly” for
words such as these are a precursor to violence...mob violence.
And
while mob violence is sadly indeed a part of “pure
democracy,” and while it's
been said that “One man's mob is another man's
democracy,” neither mobs nor
“pure democracy”
works well within the framework of a republic. And maybe to some it's
simply a case of word semantics but I don't think so for sometimes in
order to drive home both a specific point and a fundamental political
difference it actually involves labeling people, things, and actions for who and what
they truly are.
And in
the case of what's happening in today's America as both actual mobs
and mob mentality continue to overtake civility and decorum, and doing
so all in the name of what the Democrats refer to as democracy, maybe
President Trump needs to put
a clear and precise label on who these violent Democrats...now
sometimes called progressives or socialists...really are...as well as
on those that dare to even hint and/or suggest that violence and intimidation be used against the rest of us.
In fact, I think maybe our president should label this vile faction of
the Democrat party the
"New Brown Shirts" for their tactics are surely not unlike
the Brown Shirts of the 1930s...Hitler's paramilitary sorts whose
method's of violent intimidation aided in his rise to power. And
really isn't power what these vile Democrat sorts want...power so all
encompassing that never mind our republic being thrown by the wayside
but their version of democracy being done so as well to be replaced
by Obama's socialist dream...something it seems most Democrats have
wanted all along.
And after this faction of today's Democrat party is rightfully
named maybe then President Trump can retweet out Lindsey Graham's
famous words used during the Democrat's witch hunt of Brett
Kavanaugh...rightful words to the effect that we should never let
these people obtain power. And if apathy does by some chance take
hold as the midterm election draws near...apathy on our side of the
aisle that is...and we don't get out the vote then we must seriously
consider the possibility of a future where the most powerful
socialist/communist state in the world is not Russia or China, but is
these United States...for this is the wanted future envisioned by the
very radicals that have taken over the Democrat Party and it's a sad
future indeed.
And it seems, at least on the surface, that this is where we are
headed for the republic that we are has been replaced in Democrats
minds by a democracy that we are not. And when mob mentality dictates
how the political game is to be played, and where every political
setback is deemed by the Democrats as a criminal act done by we on
the other side of the political aisle...the Republican and Conservative side...along with their
believing that any who dare not embrace their liberal mindset is but a
foreboding of some catastrophic event that will signal the end of the
very democracy that we are not, then you just know we as a country are
once again in for some troubling times.
Donald Trump to the rescue as together we Republicans and Conservatives have new
reasons to unite against those who don't even know who we are as we
work together to
“Make America...to
help make our republic...Great Again.”
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* A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican (federalism) form of central government. It differs from a unitary state in that in a federal republic the authorities of the state governments cannot be taken back by the central (federal) government. The United States is technically a federal republic although we are also referred to as a Constitutional republic as Constitutional republics usually have a separation of powers, which we do.
Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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“Democracy
is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is
a well-armed lamb contesting the vote”...we are "A Republic...if
you can keep it.” 
“Inalienable
rights”...Constitution granted rights...have
been replaced by ongoing “outrage” from the left with
their incessant political polarization helping to divide Republicans
and Democrats even more so along strict party ideological lines. And
to make matters worse, what was once but Democrat partisan apathy
has now morphed into all-encompassing overt hate of any and everything Republicans
in Congress propose coupled with a special kind of all-consuming targeted hate
against any and everyone President Donald Trump nominates no matter
the position he nominates them for.
Calling
themselves “the
resistance” as they
scream and spew that “this
is what democracy looks like,” the
sad fact is that in a way they are right...up to a point that
is...for what is democracy but government
rule by the majority of its people...and if that majority is made up
of mobs than so be it. And in today's volatile political climate if
one is not part of the current media anointed majority then threats,
accusations, lies, and when needed...violence...is used to turn the
fearful, the gullible, and the weak into blind followers of what
amounts to mob rule...with it being critical that the majority must
not be restrained in imposing its will on the minority.
In fact, I think maybe our president should label this vile faction of
the Democrat party the "New Brown Shirts" for their tactics are surely not unlike
the Brown Shirts of the 1930s...Hitler's paramilitary sorts whose
method's of violent intimidation aided in his rise to power. And
really isn't power what these vile Democrat sorts want...power so all
encompassing that never mind our republic being thrown by the wayside
but their version of democracy being done so as well to be replaced
by Obama's socialist dream...something it seems most Democrats have
wanted all along.
