Posted on 01/31/2016 9:19:26 AM PST by Be Careful
There are a lot of people that think “free Trade” with a communist dictatorship demonstrates democracy at its best.
Socialism and democracy cannot be compared because it would just be like comparing apples to oranges since socialism is an economic system while democracy is a political ideology.
Feel the Burn, Bern?
They are both forms of collectivism. Another one is communism.
There’s a reason why the Founding Fathers abhored democracy and every other form of collectivism and set up America to be a representative republic.
Democracy as defined by Ayn Rand.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/democracy.html
‘Democratic’ in its original meaning [refers to] unlimited majority rule . . . a social system in which one’s work, one’s property, one’s mind, and one’s life are at the mercy of any gang that may muster the vote of a majority at any moment for any purpose.
If we discard morality and substitute for it the Collectivist doctrine of unlimited majority rule, if we accept the idea that a majority may do anything it pleases, and that anything done by a majority is right because it’s done by a majority (this being the only standard of right and wrong) - how are men to apply this in practice to their actual lives? Who is the majority? In relation to each particular man, all other men are potential members of that majority which may destroy him at its pleasure at any moment. Then each man and all men become enemies; each has to fear and suspect all; each must try to rob and murder first, before he is robbed and murdered.
The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what he was saying, although he had initiated no force and had violated no one’s rights.
Democracy, in short, is a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights: the majority can do whatever it wants with no restrictions. In principle, the democratic government is all-powerful. Democracy is a totalitarian manifestation; it is not a form of freedom . . . .
The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights.
Democracy = Two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
He has a point; “democracy” is not the form of government we have.A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. - Franklin
Rather, the Constitution guarantees to every state “ a Republican Form of Government.”The issue socialism brings up is whether we believe that “the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who does actually attempt to do the deeds,” or whether we believe - to the exact contrary - that “you didn’t build that.”Being critics rather than doers themselves, journalists cast their lot firmly in the latter category. Along with all union leaders - and most teachers.
Bernie Sanders is correct about this.
CITIZENSHIP Democracy:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic—negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy
Training Manual No. 2000-25 published 1928
Democracy is a very, VERY bad thing.
De jure republic, de facto tyranny.
Actually his view is not that far from true. Democracy qua democracy does not involve limited government only popular sovereignty, which is precisely why the American Founders were as suspicious of democracy as they were of aristocracy or monarchy and gave us a republican constitution with a mixture of all three in hope that none of the evils attendant to any one would be inflicted on them and their posterity.
In an unrestrained democracy a majority can always vote to deprive the losing faction of their property, so functionally property is held in common and there is socialism.
Until then, anything they say about democracy is just part of the illusion of inclusion that passes for "representative democracy" these days.
Some people may be so gullible and/or foolish they believe what such folks say, but not many and mostly those who are desperate due to having believed other illusions pushed by the same crowd in the past. Any country that runs for years without a budget enacted by the peoples representatives isn't governed by representative democracy or any other form of democracy, it's ruled by an elite nobility.
Most who go along with and spew the Bernie line are just working to get on the crony capitalist fascist bandwagon payroll one way or another.
JMHo
They are a out the same thing. Mob rules and someone else pays for it.
He’s a mental midget
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