RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
A crucial point is this: that democracy (majority rule) is properly restrained by human values and rights, else majority is “might makes right,” which is totalitarianism, not democracy. This is the question at play across the globe today.
For this reason the US Constitution is a “negative” document, to restrain majorities and minorities by elevating human values and rights. Were it a positive document, as “liberals” desperately want and have long treated it, – that is, if it enumerated what a government may and shall do, and what a society is and should be, and left ultimate authority in the hands of a majority or a minority – we would not be here.
US government today, mostly civilian side, when it exports “democracy,” is exporting “democracy” as majority rule, might makes right. That is not good for anyone and the fact that it is not is what makes others hate US.
Across its spectrum the Democratic Party today is trying with great strength to force through and totally that definition of democracy: majority might makes right. No authority higher than the majority. If they were not in a majority, they would be advancing a Constitutional conception of democracy.
The US Constitution actually is not democratic, for the reasons explored above and by George Will, but republican, to avoid the evil of straight democracy: majority might makes right, no higher authority.
The Republican Party, too, has from time to time behaved as majority might is right but never with the vengeful assiduity of the Democratic Party. Republicans tend not to be interested in government service whereas Democrats find it their life blood. Though not service but control.
We are hateful when associated with “democracy” as majority might makes right. It is an evil concept. An un-Constitutional concept.
This is the heart of the drama playing out today. It’s where politics touches the whole human nature and enterprise in the trajectory of history.
Update 1: Waller R. Newell: Understanding Tyranny And Terror: From The French Revolution To Modern Islamism.
AMDG – VICTORY
