If a free society is to exist, the liberalism/ fascism/ marxism whatever ism it goes by has to be snuffed out as soon as it reveals itself if not sooner.
Furthermore, representative politics cannot exist, because it draws those who wish to usurp.
I am not actually certain that a free society can exist, because as soon as it is created the termites move in and begin to gnaw.
Man is simply not content unless he controls all other men, and even then it’s not enough.
You have hit on an excellent point there. Democracy is something we love and cherish, yet eventually, all democracy falls to tyranny. Why? Because it will always be hijacked by he who promises the most stuff (after all, humans are greedy creatures). The politician doesn’t even have to actually show the stuff anymore. He just says it exists and people “hope” that it does.
We are living in a country where morality is on the decline with each passing generation. (15 year old special needs kid is gang raped in New York by other students... in a classroom, children threaten and abuse an elderly bus monitor, teens joke about gang raping a drunk girl at a party on camera)
We are living in a country where the very concept of the country itself is on the decline (Teacher stamps on flag, America is now viewed as an imperialist power, our nation was built on racism, death, abuse of homosexuals, and bigotry and we must all be punished for it!)
We are living in a country abandoning capitalism in favor of Europe’s tried and failed model of socialism, disguised now not behind the jackboots of stony faced soldiers, but the office doors of bureaucrats we’re too lazy to even ask the names of or query as to who elected them.
It was Franklin who stated, “This constitution will fail, as others have before it, and that will be due to the corruption of the people, for whom in the end only despotism will serve.” He was right. He knew that many men are always drawn towards power, and many more still will be content with the benefits they reap by not challenging such men. Humanity’s natural state is under totalitarianism. This is why throughout history, democracy is actually a rare occurrence. In the modern world, all we have is a collection of outright dictatorships, banana republics, and failed states. We are right now in the banana republic category, which in my opinion, is the worst of the three. At least in the other two, you know where you stand.
Sure, we vote for our president, we vote for representatives, senators, governors, etc. But our democracy is undermined in a way it never was before, mainly due to the phenomenon of mass media combined with a culture that the people of this nation allowed to rot until its newest generations were nothing but zombie-eyed, sex-crazed morons, gleefully raping disabled peers under their desks without a second thought, but, hey... they voted for Obama, so they must be good people because that’s what Comedy Central and Jon Stewart told them.
To think that this country was not brought to its knees by an invading army. It was not brought to its knees by all of the guns, tanks, planes, warships, spies and submarines of the Nazis, the Soviet Union, the Empire of Japan or any other such monolithic force... no. The United States Of America, that shining city on the hill, was destroyed by itself. Destroyed by its own people. Nikita Krushchev might not have known that the Soviet style of enforced communist rule would eventually crumble, but he knew that America would succumb to its evil through small doses of socialism, because he knew the nature of man.
Perhaps as you say, we were doomed to fail eventually because freedom and democracy allow for evil to exist, and evil corrupts the hearts of men with such ease. The constitution protected us for so long, it meant something to everyone who took the oath of office, it limited their power not because they were threatened by it, but because they had respect for it. You could say the same for the Bible. But the further and further into the past that historic day when the constitution was drawn up became, the less and less it meant. Obama was the first to think to himself “Why do I have to obey this document? It was signed by a bunch of dead guys I don’t care about who enslaved my people’s ancestors. I’m in charge now, and I was elected. F*ck the constitution. I know what’s best for America.”
“Sometimes, democracy must be bathed in blood” Perhaps this quote from General Augusto Pinochet is the most tragically truthful. Real freedom, liberty, and democracy are only ever born from blood, but it is only a brief candle waiting to be snuffed out by tyranny shortly thereafter. While democracy is fleeting, totalitarianism in all its forms, can last for decades, centuries, even longer.
I wonder, who will shed the blood for the next free America? What will its results look like? Will these new Americans know God? Most importantly, will these new Americans find a way to eternalize freedom with its counterbalance, morality? That is the ultimate question, the cure for the cancer that is the human condition, that we are all despots and slaves deep inside. That has been with us since our creation, and with the reelection of Barack Obama, who knows and embraces his personal love of despotism, most of my countrymen have accepted their place in the new post-constitutional America. Their place as slaves.