Kevin Dean
Well-Known Member
There's a beautiful lession to be found in these kinds of questions.
Firstly, some people have mentioned "democracy" in this thread and see voting as a way to achieve it.
The problem is, America is not a democracy, and was never designed to be one. The United States is a Republic (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the Republic, for which it stands.)
The Founders saw democracy for what it was: mob rule with structure.
The aim of the government, then, was to estabish a set of rights that NOT EVEN THE PEOPLE could violate. As politics push harder and harder to "spread democracy" those rights vanish. I'd like to think that the Founding Fathers would be liberitarians (not the party, the ideology) dropped in today's culture. Live and let live, not live and legislate everyone else.
Firstly, some people have mentioned "democracy" in this thread and see voting as a way to achieve it.
The problem is, America is not a democracy, and was never designed to be one. The United States is a Republic (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the Republic, for which it stands.)
The Founders saw democracy for what it was: mob rule with structure.
The aim of the government, then, was to estabish a set of rights that NOT EVEN THE PEOPLE could violate. As politics push harder and harder to "spread democracy" those rights vanish. I'd like to think that the Founding Fathers would be liberitarians (not the party, the ideology) dropped in today's culture. Live and let live, not live and legislate everyone else.
