Why democracy is failing America

Natural News ^ | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | Mike Adams

[Scythian]

As you know I have dropped out of posting on the FR but felt this article so "point on" that I had to post. This is why I no longer have the drive, I too see it's end. Oh, I'll still vote, but it's an utter waste of time. However, I am not depressed, worried, or afraid, I have a better hope. God Bless Everyone.

[rockinqsranch]

bflr

[Caipirabob]

Why democracy is failing America

Because we're actually a Free Republic?

[Scythian]

Because we're actually a Free Republic?

LOL, good luck my friend, try reading the article ...

[Covenantor]

Blackberry flag for full read later.

As my tag line indicates in principle I’m in agreement with you.

[Graybeard58]

This is why I no longer have the drive,

I get that way from time to time. I know it's a cliche but try to shake it off and come back in a fighting mood against all things liberal. Liberalism is killing our country and the only solution is conservatism.

[Nicojones]

Democracy requires an educated electorate to survive. It also requires that voting be limited to those that pay for the services and benefits. We signed our nation's death notice when: 1) we allowed liberals to take over the schools and replace real knowledge with PC dogma; and 2) we allowed non landowners (landowners were the only taxpayers at the time) to vote. Obama's election was the symptom of this illness. With an uneducated (liberally biased) electorate and almost 50% of the voters not paying taxes, our situation does not look good.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Does the writer not understand the U.S. is not a democracy? Indeed, a big part of the problem is we have instituted too much of it - i.e. direct election of Senators.

[LibLieSlayer]

We are not a democracy... we are a Republic... but the dims through activist judges and incrementalism have slowly directed us into a democracy. If they ever do away with the Electoral College... you will see the short life of democracy. democracy in pure form will not allow even a hobby club to survive for very long.

LLS

[mmercier]

I pledge my allegiance to the Republic.

All democracies end in anarchy.

[Wildbill22]

Democracies always fail. That is why our founders designed a Republic. The Democrats are trying to dismantle that Republic.

[LibLieSlayer]

I’ll stand with you and fight for America... I ain’t going anywhere and I dang sure will not quit as long as I am breathing. I think the Founder’s vision is worth just as much as they thought it was.

LLS

[chooseascreennamepat]

We have too much democracy. We willingly and with a pious smile on our faces, allow those who would doom us to take control without a fight.

We have so much democracy that we embrace illegal aliens and nearly force them to reap the largess of our once great nation.

We have so much democracy that we knowingly allow those who contribute the least to the society to vote on the future.

We have too much democracy. It is time to rethink the Constitution.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

What’s needed is a branch of government that is not beholden to an electorate.

[Repeal The 17th]

Thanks for posting, I think the author is spot on; but probably would have been better not to include this bit of off-putting hyperbole:
“..John F. Kennedy was probably the last President who attempted to actually tell the truth, and they shot him in the head for asking too many questions...”

[P8riot]

“So this is how liberty dies...With thunderous applause.”, Padmé Amidala

[Ozone34]

Monarchy is preferable to democracy. In a monarchy, the ruling family has an incentive to keep the economy prosperous, so they can continue to leach off its fruits. In a democracy, every four years you have a new bunch of criminals who have every incentive to steal everything they possibly can.

"Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

[SECURE AMERICA]

When given a choice between a realistic candidate who says America is deep in debt (Ron Paul) and a fantasy-land candidate who says there’s nothing to worry about
1. Ron Paul is not the only candidate or politician that states we are in deep debt.
2. Making one correct statement does not make Ron Paul a “realistic” candidate, which he is not..........

[SMARTY]

“Democracy doesn’t work if your voters are mostly short-term thinkers who can’t do math and whose selfishness outweighs any sense of leaving something of value for the next generation.”

Americans don’t know about history or that their choices really do have consequences.

“...the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.” Friedrich August von Hayek

[sueuprising]

You asked why we should have a federal government at all. Well, the founders contemplated that and the Articles of Confederation reflected it but it was proved not to work. Without a centralized government it would get too chaotic. I agree that a republic depends on an educated voter but the issues contemplated are so complex and confusing at times that it is not always that easy to blame election results on people that cannot do Math. You are right to say that an election is a popularity contest, but it has always been so. When Adams was pitted against Jefferson, guess who lost? Yet Adams was a far more reasonable and conservative candidate. Anyhow, the face of America is changing and that has a lot to do with the results of an election. I am more concerned that we are losing our heritage . It was that heritage that kept the voter on his toes.