What if…
I believe that...
Democracy as it has come to exist in America today is
dangerous to personal freedom
Democracy allows the government to do anything it wants, as
long as more people bother to show up or speak louder to support the government than to show up
to say no
Our democracy erodes the people’s understanding of natural
rights and the reasons for government and instead turns political campaigns
into beauty contests
Democracy is a fraud
The purpose of contemporary democracy has been to convince
people that they could prosper, not through the voluntary creation of wealth,
but through theft from others
The government persuaded the people that they could acquire
wealth through political activity, by means both destructive and parasitical
The idea that we need a government to take care of us is a
fiction perpetrated to increase the size of government
The government misinforms voters so they will justify
anything the government wants to do
The government has never created wealth
The government bribes people with the money it prints
The government gives entitlements to the poor, tax breaks to
the middle class, and bailouts to the rich just to keep everyone dependent on
it
Everything the government owns it has stolen
The fatal cocktail of big government and democracy
ultimately produces dependency
Both political parties want taxes, welfare, and perpetual
government growth, but offer only slightly different menus on how to achieve
them
The government enacts laws to make it impossible for
meaningful political competition to thrive
Democratic government, once it grows to a certain size,
begins to soften and weaken the people
Big government destroys people’s motivations and democracy
convinces them that the only motivation they need is to vote and go along with
the results
The majority thinks it can right any wrong, write any law,
tax any event, regulate any behavior, and acquire anything it wants
The majority always gets its way, no matter what the laws
are or what the Constitution says
The majority recognizes no limits on its power
It doesn’t matter how you vote as long as the government can
maintain control of the majority
The tyranny of the majority is as destructive to human
freedom as the tyranny of a madman
The government knows this and approves it
This is the way we lost our republic
Our strength as individuals and durability as a culture are
contingent not on the strength of the government, but on the amount of freedom
we have from the government
A vibrant republic requires not just the democratic process
of voting, but also informed and engaged voters who understand first principles
of human existence, including the divine origin and inalienable individual
possession of natural rights
We could free ourselves from the yoke of big government
through a return to first principles
The current government system does not want a return to
first principles
… What are we going to do about it?
These ideas are not my original thought, but were obtained from Andrew P. Napolitano, former judge of the Superior Court of
New Jersey & current Fox News Journalist.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/24/what-if-democracy-is-fraud/
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