My response is that there are no democracies at present.
Admitedly, this is a bald statement, so let me elaborate. This argument raged in the US more than one and a half centuries ago. It was settled to most American critic's satisfaction when Abraham Lincoln provided the lyrical definion of "Government of the people, by the people and for the people". Before the US Constitution was mandated, Thomas Paine also defined democracy in his book "The Rights of Man" also noting that "All authority resides in the people". Among his clauses were "The people shall decide the manner of taxes, how much, and how this shall be dispensed"; and "The aged, destitute, and infirm must be looked after by the government".
Not one element of democracy now exists in any government on Earth. The words of Paine and Lincoln were extinguished from political or constitutional language. Moreover, every single book on the subject of genuine democracy was removed from public libraries by 2003, and burned. Specifically, burned; not given away free like other books. How many people know that? Alert for freedom we are not.
The most recent democracy was a 200 year Chinese-led version on an island where Indonesia presently stands; it was demolished by the Dutch colonists. And to correct one piece of globalist propaganda, the word democracy may well be Greek, but the Greeks never at any stage practiced democracy. For a start, only 19% of Greeks had the vote. Only those whose mother and father were pure Athenian were qualified to vote. Which means that they 'represented' everybody else.
We need to understand that representationalism is not even vaguely related to democracy. Any dictator can claim to represent the people and, in fact, most do, spuriously. The cold reality is that nobody has ever represented anybody else.
Lord Acton summed it all up with "When you elect another person to do your thinking for you; to determine your future for you; you place your personal power in his hands, as do others. This power becomes cumulative and power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely".
For 200 years, a cabal of investment bankers have used their usurous wealth to propagandise the people into rejecting democracy or, at the very least, to be persuaded another system is democracy. A clear example of the falseness of this sleight-of-hand is the term 'majority', then reshaped to 'numerical majority', then defined as 'democrtic majority', then 'democracy'. Let us look objectively at this.
Parliament/Congress has just voted on a measure and the party in power has won with 51% of the vote. This is declared a "democratic majority", but is this an apt description?
What in fact has happend is that 49% oppose the measure, which means that the community is absolutely divided on the issue. In what sane world does one proceed with a measure that half the nation opposes? This is a formula for disaster, not a triumph of consensus.
It gets worse, more sinisterly, the media needs only to sway the vote of the swinging voter; in fact, only that percentage of the swinging voters needed to settle the majority vote. That is clearly media dictatorship. And that presumes the parliamentry vote mirrors the will of the community. This is almost never the case.
In the real world, politicians are feted by lobbyists, praised, made to feel like gods, and persuaded that they are above mere mortals and that ordinary morals and laws do not aply to them. It is only a matter of time before most politicians have been compromised by sexual liaisons that are illegal and videoed. To use the impolite term, blackmailed. This was the function of Ghislaine Maxwell and her equivilent in every country in the world. This is government in the 21st century, and what we are convinced is 'democracy'.
How to repair? Wipe the slate clean and start again, but ensure that the replacement goverment follows policies formulated by the entire well informed community. This means that media also, must represent the needs of the people, so goodbye, Rupert Murdoch, current emperor/dictator.
My response is that there are no democracies at present.
Admitedly, this is a bald statement, so let me elaborate. This argument raged in the US more than one and a half centuries ago. It was settled to most American critic's satisfaction when Abraham Lincoln provided the lyrical definion of "Government of the people, by the people and for the people". Before the US Constitution was mandated, Thomas Paine also defined democracy in his book "The Rights of Man" also noting that "All authority resides in the people". Among his clauses were "The people shall decide the manner of taxes, how much, and how this shall be dispensed"; and "The aged, destitute, and infirm must be looked after by the government".
Not one element of democracy now exists in any government on Earth. The words of Paine and Lincoln were extinguished from political or constitutional language. Moreover, every single book on the subject of genuine democracy was removed from public libraries by 2003, and burned. Specifically, burned; not given away free like other books. How many people know that? Alert for freedom we are not.
The most recent democracy was a 200 year Chinese-led version on an island where Indonesia presently stands; it was demolished by the Dutch colonists. And to correct one piece of globalist propaganda, the word democracy may well be Greek, but the Greeks never at any stage practiced democracy. For a start, only 19% of Greeks had the vote. Only those whose mother and father were pure Athenian were qualified to vote. Which means that they 'represented' everybody else.
We need to understand that representationalism is not even vaguely related to democracy. Any dictator can claim to represent the people and, in fact, most do, spuriously. The cold reality is that nobody has ever represented anybody else.
Lord Acton summed it all up with "When you elect another person to do your thinking for you; to determine your future for you; you place your personal power in his hands, as do others. This power becomes cumulative and power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely".
For 200 years, a cabal of investment bankers have used their usurous wealth to propagandise the people into rejecting democracy or, at the very least, to be persuaded another system is democracy. A clear example of the falseness of this sleight-of-hand is the term 'majority', then reshaped to 'numerical majority', then defined as 'democrtic majority', then 'democracy'. Let us look objectively at this.
Parliament/Congress has just voted on a measure and the party in power has won with 51% of the vote. This is declared a "democratic majority", but is this an apt description?
What in fact has happend is that 49% oppose the measure, which means that the community is absolutely divided on the issue. In what sane world does one proceed with a measure that half the nation opposes? This is a formula for disaster, not a triumph of consensus.
It gets worse, more sinisterly, the media needs only to sway the vote of the swinging voter; in fact, only that percentage of the swinging voters needed to settle the majority vote. That is clearly media dictatorship. And that presumes the parliamentry vote mirrors the will of the community. This is almost never the case.
In the real world, politicians are feted by lobbyists, praised, made to feel like gods, and persuaded that they are above mere mortals and that ordinary morals and laws do not aply to them. It is only a matter of time before most politicians have been compromised by sexual liaisons that are illegal and videoed. To use the impolite term, blackmailed. This was the function of Ghislaine Maxwell and her equivilent in every country in the world. This is government in the 21st century, and what we are convinced is 'democracy'.
How to repair? Wipe the slate clean and start again, but ensure that the replacement goverment follows policies formulated by the entire well informed community. This means that media also, must represent the needs of the people, so goodbye, Rupert Murdoch, current emperor/dictator.
Yup dumbocracy! https://frederickrsmith.substack.com/p/democracy-for-dummies-5c7