FLASH: The United States of America is not a Democracy.
Ladies and Gentlemen hold on to your hats. There is truth that the USA is not a democracy. We are a Representative Republic.
SAY WHAT?
That's right. We vote for senators and representatives and it's up to them to carry our wishes because we vote for them.
A democracy is mob rule. The USA is not governed by mob rule.
SAY WHAT, again?
Allow me to evince you with a brilliant analogy.
A ship carrying 5 disgusting males and 1 charming and beautiful female wrecks and they are stranded on a deserted island.
One man decides to ask the woman for her hand in marriage. She turns him down because he's disgusting. The others follow suit and are similarly declined. The men declare that they are going to vote in order to instigate compelled marriage. It will be fair because everyone will be allowed to vote regardless of age or mental capacity. The vote is 5 to 1.
Get it?
Got it?
Good.
My apologies to Danny Kaye.
4 comments:
Our system of government walks a fine line. What do you call it when the government by way of elected represenatives, or by way of a non-elected oligarchy court system, continue to enact laws that the majority do not want to live by? That's oppression right? That's the kind of stuff that fuels revolutions.
It's a fine line that exists when we walk preserving the rights of the individual, without oppressing the populace.
The ACLU is constantly on the side of oppression in my opinion.
In your scenario, it is mob rule because the woman could not leave the island. She had no choice in the matter. While our country is not locked down and persons objecting to say "a cross on a grave site at a national cemetary" are free to leave, the mob rule scenario doesn't apply... at least in my opinion.
It's true that the woman couldn't leave the island. It's still democracy in action. You can just as easily use a positive scenario like Ted Kennedy was inn place of the woman and the other guys were NRA members.
Here's a site for my argument.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=4
Now get right or be left.
I feel so smart! I knew we were e republic:-). Sorry I have been away so long...things have been crazy. love your blog, though.
Blackstone's Commentaries explained:
To instance in the case of murder:
this is expressly forbidden by the
Divine. . . . If any human law
should allow or enjoin us to commit
it we are bound to transgress that
human law. . . . But, with regard
to matters that are . . . not
commanded or forbidden by those
superior laws such, for instance,
as exporting of wool into foreign
countries; here the . . .
legislature has scope and
opportunity to interpose.
A democracy could vote to allow murder to be legal.
We use a form of democracy when we go to the polls but we don't vote on what is legal until our representatives approve of the vote.
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