That's the title of Thomas Friedman's latest dump for TNYT...
...here's his closer:
I'm American and I, like this great nation's founders and framers, detest democracy - majority rule - as a governing principle...
...so, it does not surprise me to read Friedman as just another socialist rushing to prop-up the statist facade of democracy.
The United States of America was framed as a constitutional republic...
...in such a republic, the Constitution is the law of the land and no one - whether individual or majority - is above it.
That's the way it's supposed to work, no matter the individuals through the centuries who've tried their best to sinisterly exploit that saneness. And the fact is, what Friedman and almost all other progressive/democrats are wailing about, that some extremist Congresspeople are assaulting their precious, collective "democracy", is expressly allowed in the Constitution to specifically prevent any majority from obtaining control over individual Americans and, in essence, any democracy to rule.
Freedom of speech was deemed by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to inherently be beyond the reach of federal government or any rule of any majority...
...yet, many still didn't trust that freedom of speech would be so inalienably revered, so they sought to make it much more clear and republican representatives ratified the Bills of Rights to do just that.
But, alas, free speech as a natural right of man enshrined for a nation of law is just a bunch of words easily susceptible to a democracy...
...because a majority - a nation of men - can do whatever they want.
Tell me, democrats:
What rights do minorities have but the ones dictated to them by your majority?
Democracy, the rule of men, is a detestable enemy of the rule of law which dictates that all men are created equal - majority be damned...
...thus, as an enemy of the rule of law, democracy is a fitting foundation for you progressives/democrats/socialists/statists to start this Constitutional War from, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with your peers, for it is way past time that America finally puts to final death the little democracy bullcrap* which managed to survive the Convention in the first place.
* a majority ruling that certain individuals were only worth 3/5ths as much as other individuals.
...here's his closer:
I'm American and I, like this great nation's founders and framers, detest democracy - majority rule - as a governing principle...
...so, it does not surprise me to read Friedman as just another socialist rushing to prop-up the statist facade of democracy.
The United States of America was framed as a constitutional republic...
...in such a republic, the Constitution is the law of the land and no one - whether individual or majority - is above it.
That's the way it's supposed to work, no matter the individuals through the centuries who've tried their best to sinisterly exploit that saneness. And the fact is, what Friedman and almost all other progressive/democrats are wailing about, that some extremist Congresspeople are assaulting their precious, collective "democracy", is expressly allowed in the Constitution to specifically prevent any majority from obtaining control over individual Americans and, in essence, any democracy to rule.
Freedom of speech was deemed by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to inherently be beyond the reach of federal government or any rule of any majority...
...yet, many still didn't trust that freedom of speech would be so inalienably revered, so they sought to make it much more clear and republican representatives ratified the Bills of Rights to do just that.
But, alas, free speech as a natural right of man enshrined for a nation of law is just a bunch of words easily susceptible to a democracy...
...because a majority - a nation of men - can do whatever they want.
Tell me, democrats:
What rights do minorities have but the ones dictated to them by your majority?
Democracy, the rule of men, is a detestable enemy of the rule of law which dictates that all men are created equal - majority be damned...
...thus, as an enemy of the rule of law, democracy is a fitting foundation for you progressives/democrats/socialists/statists to start this Constitutional War from, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with your peers, for it is way past time that America finally puts to final death the little democracy bullcrap* which managed to survive the Convention in the first place.
* a majority ruling that certain individuals were only worth 3/5ths as much as other individuals.
