We continue to hear that MAGA is trying to destroy democracy. Not being a true democracy this is nothing more than rhetoric. The fact that we are a Republic seems to totally escape the left, but delusionary thinking rules within the confines of the left’s mind.
The following definitions are from “Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary”, copyright 1949. The quotes are from “Useful Quotations; a Cyclopedia of Quotations” copyright 1933.
Democracy:
1. Government by the people; government in which the supreme power is retained by the people and exercised either directly (absolute or pure democracy), or indirectly (representative democracy) through a system of representation.
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically; so perfect a government is not suitable to men. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778)
The devil was the first democrat. George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 – 1824)
Republic:
A state in which the sovereign power resides in a certain body of the people (the electorate), and is exercised by representatives selected by, and responsible to, the electorate.
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. – On the contrary, under no form of government are laws better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind. George Washington (1732 – 1799)
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1680 – 1755)
Author’s Note – This nation is a Republic governed by an elected body; therefore a Representative Democracy. The demise of our Republic will only happen when our elected officials are no longer responsible to, and or responsive to the electorate. If we are to retain our Republic, it is incumbent on every citizen to elect officials who respond to and listen to “We the People”; not to a bunch of oligarchs and charlatans who feel they are there to rule over us; and certainly not to the unelected bureaucrats that dominate the federal agencies and write rules and regulations and then declare said rules and regulations are the “Law of the Land”!!! Nothing could be further from the truth!!!
Our elections have become more akin to Beauty Contests rather than the responsible actions of an electorate that is both educated in the issues of the day and willing to put aside personal feelings and elect officials who have the best interests of the country at heart.
Sadly, I do not feel that is what is currently happening. Too many are looking for a handout from the government with little regard for the consequences of such actions or have no idea what the person they have voted for believes and or stands for!! Unfortunately, responsible citizenship is no longer in vogue and may indeed drive our Republic to ruin.