Democratic governments are a tough sled and so very rare. America is blessed and spoiled by our history but our inherited freedoms may have run their course. Why you ask? A true democracy gives all the people the responsibility to choose their leaders and then hold them accountable. However, voters are human beings who will avoid good capable leadership and will not expend the energy to hold their elected leaders accountable. The people inevitably become passive.
Every try at
a democracy in history has suffered from this truism. Early Greek governments
made a few stab at the democratic way but without exception they soon slipped
into some form of tyranny. A tyranny is a form of government that is led by the
few of us and the people willingly become bystanders and victims.
Plato, the
Father of Western Philosophy (428 to 347 B.C.), had an aversion to the democratic
form of government. The people voted for the death of Socrates his mentor who
accepted to the point of death the will of the people. Angered, Plato called
the democratic way a “ship of fools”. To Plato, a democracy is like sailing off
on a long voyage without a Captain/Navigator at the helm. Everyone wants to set
a different course.
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (1712 to 1778 A.D.) the Swiss philosopher said that if the people are of
the gods, the government would be democratic. (But) so perfect a government is
not for men. In the history of the world, government for and by the people has
never long survived for this reason. Plato and Rousseau left government to the tyranny
of the capable thinkers.
This was the
historical atmosphere in 1776 America. The colonies had experienced the boot of
the unjust tyranny of the powerful English Crown. When rebellion became the
only alternative, the thinkers among us gathered to devise a workable democracy
resulting in the plan, the United States Constitution (1788). This was the best
hope for the survival of the American democracy with its separation of legislative
powers, judicial powers and executive powers. These three powers have seemed to
be at war for 250 years but somehow the people have had their say.
Then there
came the Deep State tyranny, the 100 year old other executive branch that is
not in the Constitution. The Deep State conspiracy is not elected but is always
alive in Washington, hiring and firing show pony politicians to control the mob
while the Deep State makes the decisions that matter. One might ask, where does
all the money go? The Deep State tyranny is by subterfuge.
Then there
came Donald Trump to upset the applecart. When he came down the escalator in
2016, the Deep State went to war against Donald Trump because the Deep State
understood that this guy actually believes that Constitutional baloney. This guy
could not be bought. The war rages on to this very hour. The show pony Democrats
were and are only taking orders from the Deep State, to a man or woman, they
are not that smart. The Deep State is smart, after all, the system in Washington
is theirs.
Some of you are doubters. We are back to Plato. The popular voting mob will eventually choose national democratic destruction. Please, not now!
The people will not go quietly into the night as passive tools of the tyranny of the Deep State. Vote for the America beyond your nose.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA.
