The Real Threats to Our “Democracy”
Biden recently said that requiring voters to show IDs in order to vote is the greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War. First of all, I will begin by telling you what the older among you learned in high school but may have since forgotten, and what the younger among you have never really heard or understood. The United States of America is not a democracy nor has it ever been. It was founded as and intended to be a democratic republic. Now, what is the difference? In a democracy every citizen has an equal voice in the governing of the country, state, or town. Let’s use Paris, Illinois as an example. Paris is the county seat of Edgar County, population 16,763 of whom about 20% are below voting age. Thus, for Edgar County to operate as a true democracy, every decision of the county council, the six school boards, the various village and city councils would need to be put to a vote by the 13,418 adults of voting age. That is obviously not feasible, so imagine what it would be if every decision by the governor or any state agency had to be explained to and voted on by the 12.782 million inhabitants of Illinois? Or every national decision voted upon by the 330 million citizens of the United States!
True democracies have been rare. Some of the Greek city-states, because of their limited population and because they restricted voting to land owners only, were able to practice true democracy. In Switzerland democracy was practiced for some time as the males (women only got the vote in 1972) gathered in each city square to vote, usually by a show of hands. But in a country the size of the U.S., a pure democracy would never work. In a democratic republic, however, each citizen has a vote and a voice in government. We vote for individuals that we feel will best protect our interests for the city council, the school board, the state legislature, the governorship, the Congress, and the presidency. Unfortunately, often those individuals mislead us during their campaigns and do not, in fact, protect our interest once they have the power of office. But we, if we are intelligent enough to recognize that they are NOT bettering our lives, can simply vote them out of office the next time around, or in some cases, vote to remove them from office before the next election. Thus, in theory, the power remains with the people.
Unfortunately, the Left in America, which has now been embraced by the Democrat Party, likes neither a democratic nor a republican form of government. They don’t want the people to be able to remove them from power or to prevent them from doing what they want to do, regardless of whether it benefits the public or not. They want a totalitarian government, a Marxist state, much like that of Communist Russia in the 40 years following WWII, of Nazi Germany, of Communist Cuba, or Communist China, of Communist North Korea. These types of totalitarian governments either fail or limp along with people living in poverty and oppression. And, although they are loathe to admit it, the Democrat Party is well on its way to tricking us into accepting such a government. Let’s look at what they are doing.
•In Nazi Germany and in any Communist country that has ever existed, businesses are closely monitored or controlled by the government. The same has become true in the U.S. today as each business has to meet thousands of requirements from the city, county, state, and federal government concerning healthcare and benefits for workers, licenses, taxes or all sorts, marketing and advertising laws, copyright laws, workplace poster laws, workplace health and safety laws, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Even a private company cannot turn down an applicant for a position or for a raise based upon sex, skin color, or religion. Now, however, the left is pushing companies to hire a certain percentage of minorities, whether those individuals are qualified or not. American Airlines, for example, announced a few months ago that they would have a woman or a person of color in every cockpit of every airplane. I don’t care if they have a kangaroo in the cockpit if he or she is a good pilot, but I will not choose to fly with an airline who chooses pilots based upon their race or sex rather than their ability to fly a plane. This sounds good to many, especially the young who are still filled with the fervor to right perceived wrongs without investigating to see if those wrongs actually exist or not. But in fact, this is a continuation of Marxism. Divide us by race and sex. Tell some of us that we are victims, and we are easier to manipulate, and, push these seemingly “good” ideas which in fact are illegal, unconstitutional, and dangerous.
•In Nazi Germany and every Communist country that has ever existed, freedom of speech was banned. Those who dared to speak out about injustice, illegality or lies, were punished. In the U.S. today, those who dare to speak out in national forums are doxed, often fired, and may have their homes and families endangered. The last President of the United States, President Trump has been banned from social media because the leftist CEOs of the companies don’t agree with his politics. If you question the role of CO2 emissions on our changing climate or point out that our climate has always changed, you are a climate denier, a science denier (even though thousands upon thousands of scientists worldwide also point to the natural occurrences that are more impactful on climate change than human-produced CO2). If you point out that there are, in nature, only two genders, as in humans, you are silenced. If you argue that science proves that DNA determines one’s gender and that a man cannot therefore turn himself into a woman or a woman into a man, you are vilified as a transphobic.
•In Nazi Germany and every Communist Country, the news outlets have been carefully monitored to say only what the government wants them to say. Our media has been largely taken over by the Left. Their “news” stories are mostly misinformation and propaganda. Things that reflect badly on Democrats are glossed over or never mentioned at all(Hunter Biden’s questionable dealings with foreign countries) while the words of Republicans are edited and twisted in order to make them say something entirely different from what was actually said. President Trump is in robust good health, both mentally and physically. Joe Biden appears to be suffering from dementia as his sentences are often incoherent or never completed and he may wander away from the podium or stare for several seconds without speaking during press briefings. Yet it was President Trump whom several “doctors” on CNN claimed was in failing health before the election and who questioned his ability to govern the country. Biden was hidden in his basement and his angry outbursts in townhall meetings were not seen in most media outlets. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
At the same time, conservative news outlets often find their articles removed from Facebook and their videos from YouTube. Conservative Congressmen and reporters alike have had been, like the former President of the United States, banned from Twitter and Facebook. If you aren’t saying what they want you to say, they will limit your ability to say it.
•In Nazi Germany and in every Communist country, the law never applied to those among the ruling elite. Democrats regularly break the law from Hillary Clinton destroying evidence that had already been subpoenaed, to the Obama administration using the NSA to listen in on members of the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign, to putting Fox News reporters on No Fly lists, to using the IRS to prevent conservative groups from being able to stump for the Republican opposition to Obama in 2012, to the IRS doing the same with religious organizations now, and the NSA capturing and keeping emails from Fox Commentator Tucker Carlson. All of these things are illegal, but no one, no one is ever arrested, tried, and punished because they are Democrats. At the same time, General Flynn, because Obama didn’t like him and because he was part of the Trump administration, was indicted, bankrupted, and forced to plea to lying to the FBI in order to keep them from also bankrupting his son. When the Justice Department dropped the specious charges because the FBI agents themselves said Flynn had not lied to them, the judge in the case refused to release Flynn. It took a presidential pardon to get him out of the so-called “justice system.” Why? Because he was a Republican. This is typical of totalitarian regimes, but not common to our historic democratic republic.
•Every Communist country has had “re-education camps” where those who disagree with the propaganda of the government are re-educated, usually forcefully, until they toe the party line. Democrat leaders of businesses, the military, and schools have been re-educating whites on their “white supremacy,” their “white fragility,” and their “inherent racism.” The current Democrat Party line is that all white people are born oppressors of people of color and thus the entire society, from social life, to schools, businesses, the military, politics — all are constructed to prevent people of color from succeeding. All a part of “Critical Race Theory” which contends that everything must be and is viewed through the color of one’s skin, they call this supposedly rigged social system, “systemic racism,” and assure us that our country is rife with it. Don’t try to tell them that in 2008 only 4% of the nearly 330 million Americans said they would not vote for a president based upon his skin color. Don’t remind them of all the people of color who have achieved success including world-renowned Surgeon and Secretary of HUD, Ben Carson; President Barack Obama, supposed Vice President Kamala Harris*; Senator Ted Cruz; Senator Marco Rubio; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Business owner, GOP Chairman, and gubernatorial candidate Allen West; Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor; and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to name a few, because they will say that your very denial of systemic racism proves that systemic racism exists and that you are yourself racist and need to learn how not to be. This is the typical totalitarian mantra: “Admit you are guilty, because if you say you are innocent that just proves you are guilty!”
•In Nazi Germany and in every Communist country the government has banned books that they considered dangerous for the people to read. Nazi Germany was famous for its book burnings. We no longer burn books, we just remove them from library shelves (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, Dr. Seuss) and digitally remove them from the American Booksellers Association or from Amazon. But don’t be fooled. This is censorship and it is un -American!
•In Nazi Germany and every Communist country, government censorship is common. We learned this past week that the White House is monitoring our text messages and asking servers to remove messages that the White House considers to contain “misinformation.” They are also scanning Facebook postings and asking Facebook to remove those articles which they consider to be “misinformation.” Facebook, Twitter, and Google already censor what is posted on their sites, but now the federal government wants them to become agents of governmental censorship. And however you look at it, this is the federal government reading your emails, Facebook posts, and texts! This is absolutely illegal!
One of the members of the Board of Facebook said last week that freedom of speech is not an absolute right. Yet the Constitution of the United States in the Bill of Rights guarantees the following:
Article the third… Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article the sixth… The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (Papers and effects here must surely include laptops, cell phones, and messages sent on them., which according to this article of the Constitution, they cannot read without probable cause and a court order!) Yet, reading them they are.
We have a Constitution that protects our rights as citizens, that insures us equal treatment before the law, that protects our freedom of speech whether in person, in texts, in emails, or through books that we read. Censorship prevents freedom of speech and is therefore contrary to the Constitution. The problem today is that the loudest voices denounce and reject these protected freedoms and way too many of us would rather go about our everyday lives quietly than respond. There came a time in 1776 when the colonists could no longer abide being subservient to their British masters. I hope that day comes to today’s Patriots, and soon. A Republican House and Senate would be able to at least prevent some of the insanity. If we don’t elect them in 2022, we will sink into the hellhole that was Nazi Germany and has been every Communist country in the world. Don’t be fooled. If those systems are so great, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others would have us believe, why would those demonstrating for freedom in Hong Kong and in Cuba be carrying American flags? We have always stood for freedom. We have always been the model to which they have looked for hope. Don’t let the Democrats take our freedoms away from us!