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    Socialists/Communists/Democrats will never stop talking about the moral necessity for democracy:

    I wish public voices would stop speaking about democracy as though it is a good thing.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...16#post2796116

    Polls are usually propaganda bought and paid for in order to stampede the public in one direction or another. Maybe this PEW poll will convince responsible media mouths and RINO to stop praising the gallows because it promises to hang them with a new rope:

    U.S. Attorney General William Barr confirmed Wednesday in a Senate hearing he’s investigating evidence that Obama officials plotted to undermine Donald Trump during the 2016 election and after he won the White House.

    That might be one reason people are expressing a dissatisfaction with democracy, as a new Pew poll indicates.

    The poll finds people discontent about the economy, individual rights and “out-of-touch elites.”

    And not just in the United States.

    “Anger at political elites, economic dissatisfaction and anxiety about rapid social changes have fueled political upheaval in regions around the world in recent years,” Pew said. “Anti-establishment leaders, parties and movements have emerged on both the right and left of the political spectrum, in some cases challenging fundamental norms and institutions of liberal democracy.

    Pew said organizations from Freedom House to the Economist Intelligence Unit to V-Dem have documented global declines in the health of democracy.

    Pew said ideas at the core of democracy still are popular around the world, “but commitment to democracy can nonetheless be weak.”

    “Multiple factors contribute to this lack of commitment, including perceptions about how well democracy is functioning,” said Pew, which found 51 percent of the more than 30,000 respondents it polled worldwide were dissatisfied.

    Only 45 percent are happy with their democracy.

    Pew surveyed people from 27 countries.

    “In Europe … more than six-in-ten Swedes and Dutch are satisfied with the current state of democracy, while large majorities in Italy, Spain and Greece are dissatisfied,” the report said. “Most believe elections bring little change, that politicians are corrupt and out of touch and that courts do not treat people fairly. On the other hand, people are more positive about how well their countries protect free expression, provide economic opportunity and ensure public safety.”

    It explained that dissatisfaction with democracy “is related to economic frustration, the status of individual rights, as well as perceptions that political elites are corrupt and do not care about average citizens.”

    “Additionally, in Europe the results suggest that dissatisfaction with the way democracy is working is tied to views about the EU, opinions about whether immigrants are adopting national customs and attitudes toward populist parties.”

    The report said, “In 26 of 27 nations, those who believe their country is one in which most people cannot improve their standard of living are more likely to be dissatisfied with the way democracy is working.”

    Pew said non-economic factors also play a role.

    “In every nation studied, dissatisfaction with democracy is more common among people who say the statement ‘the rights of people to express their views in public are protected’ does not describe their country well. This pattern is especially apparent in Europe, where in nations such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Hungary those who believe free expression is not protected are significantly more likely to be unhappy with the state of democracy.”

    The dissatisfaction also was linked to the treatment of people within a nation’s justice system, the report said, and “attitudes toward politicians also influence the degree to which people are satisfied or dissatisfied with the performance of their country’s democracy.”

    The report said: “For instance, dissatisfaction is pervasive among people who see politicians as uncaring and out of touch. In 26 nations, unhappiness with the current functioning of democracy is more common among those who believe the statement ‘elected officials care what ordinary people think’ does not describe their country well.

    “Many also say the politicians in their country are corrupt, and those who hold this view are consistently more dissatisfied with how their democracy is functioning.”

    Pew: Many unhappy with their democracies
    Posted By -NO AUTHOR- On 05/01/2019 @ 8:31 pm

    https://www.wnd.com/2019/05/pew-many...r-democracies/

    Finally, I am justified in taking a few curtain calls. PEW affirmed 19 years of countless attacks on democracy with one poll that was too long in coming:


    Their democracy movement (nation building) identifies American Socialists/Communists as the only expansionists in the U.S. As Socialists increase their political power here at home through lies and propaganda trust in this country diminishes everywhere.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?111873-Let%92s-Not-Hear-It-For-The-United-Nations&p=2856726#post2856726


    The most difficult battles are the ones fought against the democracy movement, and tax dollar human Rights.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...35#post2860435

    Democracy will suffer its biggest defeat since our Founding Fathers gave us limited government if PEW finds a way to put this historical fact into poll form:


    Throughout history every generation produced a legion of fools and parasites who believed that a benign totalitarian government is possible. Throughout history democracy has been the parasite’s preferred form of government. Throughout history democracy failed.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...39#post3008239
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    There was a time when the American people were respected around the world —— Democrat liars have been in the process of replacing true greatness with the parasite class’ greatness.

    The PEW poll tells me that freedom-loving Americans, and peoples around the world, may finally be awakening from the democracy nightmare. Americans now have a fighting chance of going back to this country’s greatness before Wilson made the world safe for democracy.

    Prior to 1945, the American people were respected and much-admired around the world. As the U.N.’s influence grew in world affairs; so did the image of the “ugly American.” Hatred directed toward the United States flourished because many Americans would not be frightened into giving their sovereignty over to Third World controls.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...34#post2994634

    Joe Biden promises to return to the days of the parasite class’ unchallenged Democracy Movement. Sleepy Joe never got more than one percent in his two previous bids. Now he puts the one percent to sleep:



    Nevertheless, I hope he gets the Democrat Party’s nomination. Unfortunately, he administered his own coup de grâce in a 2017 op-ed:


    coup de grâce
    (noun)

    plural coups de grâce

    1. A deathblow delivered to end the misery of a mortally wounded victim.

    2. A finishing stroke or decisive event.

    Read Biden’s pathetic attempt to salvage democracy:


    In over 45 years of working in global affairs, I’ve observed a simple truth: America’s ability to lead the world depends not just on the example of our power, but on the power of our example.

    American democracy is rooted in the belief that every man, woman and child has equal rights to freedom and dignity. While the United States is far from perfect, we have never given up the struggle to grow closer to the ideals in our founding documents.

    The constant American endeavor to live by our values is a great strength that has drawn generations of strivers and dreamers to the United States, enriching our population. Around the world, other nations follow our lead because they know that America does not simply protect its own interests, but tries to advance the aspirations of all.

    This has stood as the foundation of American foreign policy throughout my political career — until recently.

    Around the world, including in the United States, we are seeing the resurgence of a worldview that is closed off and clannish. President Trump keeps longstanding allies such as Germany at arm’s length, while expressing admiration for autocrats like Vladimir V. Putin who thwart democratic institutions.

    Rather than building from a narrative of freedom and democracy that inspires nations to rally together, this White House casts global affairs as a zero-sum competition — for the United States to succeed, others must lose. Among the many problems that plague the Trump administration’s foreign policy, this line of thinking is perhaps the most disturbing.

    During a speech in July, Mr. Trump said, “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” This statement divides the world into “us” and “them.” No American political figure has so narrowly defined our interests since the period between the world wars.

    Mr. Trump’s shameful defense of the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who unleashed hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Va., further abnegated America’s moral leadership. Not since the Jim Crow era has an American president so misunderstood and misrepresented our values.

    Most recently, the Trump administration’s order to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — punishing young people brought to this country by their parents, many of whom know no home but the United States — betrays an unnecessary cruelty that further undermines America’s standing in the world.

    When Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said that it was important to “understand the difference between policy and values,” he wrote off the very thing that makes the United States exceptional. And at a time when democratic values are under siege around the globe — from populist attacks that undermine confidence in democratic institutions to leaders who try to bolster their power by closing the space for civil society and rolling back citizens’ rights — the world cannot afford to have America cede the field to illiberalism and intolerance.

    Placing American democratic values back at the center of our foreign policy does not mean we should impose our principles abroad or refuse to talk with nations whose policies run counter to them. There will always be times when keeping Americans safe requires working with those whom we find distasteful. But even when we must make those hard choices, we can never forget who we are and the future we seek.

    The United States must be a bulwark for global democracy or powers like Russia will bully and divide, argues former Vice President Joe Biden. The Statue of Liberty, a beacon of American democracy, has welcomed millions of immigrants and refugees to the country.CreditKeith Meyers/The New York Times

    Reclaiming our values starts with standing up for them at home — inclusivity, tolerance, diversity, respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. If these are the democratic principles we wish to see around the world, America must be the first to model them.

    These are also the values that tie us to our closest allies — the friends we depend on to address major global challenges. They must believe that the United States will continue to support them and to stand up for democracy.

    Leading with our values also means that we speak out when nations violate their citizens’ rights. If leaders repress their own people, we must make clear that it constrains our ability to cooperate with them. We can meet our security imperatives without giving a green light to dictators who abuse universal human rights.

    Finally, a foreign policy built on our values must stand firm against foreign powers that celebrate a perceived withdrawal of American leadership as an opportunity to increase their influence. Without the United States standing as a bulwark for global democracy, illiberal powers like Russia will take increasingly aggressive steps to disrupt the international order, bully their neighbors and return to a more divided world.

    I guess nobody ever told Joe Biden that democracy divides the world economically, and philosophically, more effectively than the divide between Islam and Christianity.


    From the Marshall Plan after World War II to our alliances in East Asia, both Republican and Democratic officials have long embraced a vision of American leadership that fosters a more secure, inclusive and generous planet. That ideal made the world safer and more prosperous — for Americans and everyone else.

    The international community still needs a strong, democratic America leading the way. And the good news is that the United States remains better positioned than any other country to shape the direction of the 21st century. But to succeed, we cannot abandon the tenets that we fought so hard to defend over the past seven decades — ideals that magnified American leadership and produced the greatest increase in global prosperity in history.

    You cannot define Americans by what they look like, where they come from, whom they love or how they worship. Only our democratic values define us. And if we lose sight of this in our conduct at home or abroad, we jeopardize the respect that has made the United States the greatest nation on earth.


    Joe Biden: Reclaiming America’s Values
    By Joe Biden
    Sept. 14, 2017

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/o...ect-union.html

    NOTE:
    Biden even claimed Lady Liberty stands for democracy:
    The United States must be a bulwark for global democracy or powers like Russia will bully and divide, argues former Vice President Joe Biden. The Statue of Liberty, a beacon of American democracy, has welcomed millions of immigrants and refugees to the country.CreditKeith Meyers/The New York Times
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    See number 16 permalink in this thread:

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...29#post2770729

    Finally, Joe Biden & Company will never understand that bullies cannot defeat peoples yearning for individual liberties the world over. They are this country’s greatest allies —— not democracy.


    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Thank God America is not a democracy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    There was a time when the American people were respected around the world —— Democrat liars have been in the process of replacing true greatness with the parasite class’ greatness.

    The PEW poll tells me that freedom-loving Americans, and peoples around the world, may finally be awakening from the democracy nightmare. Americans now have a fighting chance of going back to this country’s greatness before Wilson made the world safe for democracy.

    Prior to 1945, the American people were respected and much-admired around the world. As the U.N.’s influence grew in world affairs; so did the image of the “ugly American.” Hatred directed toward the United States flourished because many Americans would not be frightened into giving their sovereignty over to Third World controls.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...34#post2994634

    Joe Biden promises to return to the days of the parasite class’ unchallenged Democracy Movement. Sleepy Joe never got more than one percent in his two previous bids. Now he puts the one percent to sleep:



    Nevertheless, I hope he gets the Democrat Party’s nomination. Unfortunately, he administered his own coup de grâce in a 2017 op-ed:


    coup de grâce
    (noun)

    plural coups de grâce

    1. A deathblow delivered to end the misery of a mortally wounded victim.

    2. A finishing stroke or decisive event.

    Read Biden’s pathetic attempt to salvage democracy:


    In over 45 years of working in global affairs, I’ve observed a simple truth: America’s ability to lead the world depends not just on the example of our power, but on the power of our example.

    American democracy is rooted in the belief that every man, woman and child has equal rights to freedom and dignity. While the United States is far from perfect, we have never given up the struggle to grow closer to the ideals in our founding documents.

    The constant American endeavor to live by our values is a great strength that has drawn generations of strivers and dreamers to the United States, enriching our population. Around the world, other nations follow our lead because they know that America does not simply protect its own interests, but tries to advance the aspirations of all.

    This has stood as the foundation of American foreign policy throughout my political career — until recently.

    Around the world, including in the United States, we are seeing the resurgence of a worldview that is closed off and clannish. President Trump keeps longstanding allies such as Germany at arm’s length, while expressing admiration for autocrats like Vladimir V. Putin who thwart democratic institutions.

    Rather than building from a narrative of freedom and democracy that inspires nations to rally together, this White House casts global affairs as a zero-sum competition — for the United States to succeed, others must lose. Among the many problems that plague the Trump administration’s foreign policy, this line of thinking is perhaps the most disturbing.

    During a speech in July, Mr. Trump said, “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” This statement divides the world into “us” and “them.” No American political figure has so narrowly defined our interests since the period between the world wars.

    Mr. Trump’s shameful defense of the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who unleashed hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Va., further abnegated America’s moral leadership. Not since the Jim Crow era has an American president so misunderstood and misrepresented our values.

    Most recently, the Trump administration’s order to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — punishing young people brought to this country by their parents, many of whom know no home but the United States — betrays an unnecessary cruelty that further undermines America’s standing in the world.

    When Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said that it was important to “understand the difference between policy and values,” he wrote off the very thing that makes the United States exceptional. And at a time when democratic values are under siege around the globe — from populist attacks that undermine confidence in democratic institutions to leaders who try to bolster their power by closing the space for civil society and rolling back citizens’ rights — the world cannot afford to have America cede the field to illiberalism and intolerance.

    Placing American democratic values back at the center of our foreign policy does not mean we should impose our principles abroad or refuse to talk with nations whose policies run counter to them. There will always be times when keeping Americans safe requires working with those whom we find distasteful. But even when we must make those hard choices, we can never forget who we are and the future we seek.

    The United States must be a bulwark for global democracy or powers like Russia will bully and divide, argues former Vice President Joe Biden. The Statue of Liberty, a beacon of American democracy, has welcomed millions of immigrants and refugees to the country.CreditKeith Meyers/The New York Times

    Reclaiming our values starts with standing up for them at home — inclusivity, tolerance, diversity, respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. If these are the democratic principles we wish to see around the world, America must be the first to model them.

    These are also the values that tie us to our closest allies — the friends we depend on to address major global challenges. They must believe that the United States will continue to support them and to stand up for democracy.

    Leading with our values also means that we speak out when nations violate their citizens’ rights. If leaders repress their own people, we must make clear that it constrains our ability to cooperate with them. We can meet our security imperatives without giving a green light to dictators who abuse universal human rights.

    Finally, a foreign policy built on our values must stand firm against foreign powers that celebrate a perceived withdrawal of American leadership as an opportunity to increase their influence. Without the United States standing as a bulwark for global democracy, illiberal powers like Russia will take increasingly aggressive steps to disrupt the international order, bully their neighbors and return to a more divided world.

    I guess nobody ever told Joe Biden that democracy divides the world economically, and philosophically, more effectively than the divide between Islam and Christianity.


    From the Marshall Plan after World War II to our alliances in East Asia, both Republican and Democratic officials have long embraced a vision of American leadership that fosters a more secure, inclusive and generous planet. That ideal made the world safer and more prosperous — for Americans and everyone else.

    The international community still needs a strong, democratic America leading the way. And the good news is that the United States remains better positioned than any other country to shape the direction of the 21st century. But to succeed, we cannot abandon the tenets that we fought so hard to defend over the past seven decades — ideals that magnified American leadership and produced the greatest increase in global prosperity in history.

    You cannot define Americans by what they look like, where they come from, whom they love or how they worship. Only our democratic values define us. And if we lose sight of this in our conduct at home or abroad, we jeopardize the respect that has made the United States the greatest nation on earth.


    Joe Biden: Reclaiming America’s Values
    By Joe Biden
    Sept. 14, 2017

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/o...ect-union.html

    NOTE:
    Biden even claimed Lady Liberty stands for democracy:
    The United States must be a bulwark for global democracy or powers like Russia will bully and divide, argues former Vice President Joe Biden. The Statue of Liberty, a beacon of American democracy, has welcomed millions of immigrants and refugees to the country.CreditKeith Meyers/The New York Times
    Image



    See number 16 permalink in this thread:

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...29#post2770729

    Finally, Joe Biden & Company will never understand that bullies cannot defeat peoples yearning for individual liberties the world over. They are this country’s greatest allies —— not democracy.


    Who the fuck is going to read all this?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    The PEW poll tells me that freedom-loving Americans, and peoples around the world, may finally be awakening from the democracy nightmare. Americans now have a fighting chance of going back to this country’s greatness before Wilson made the world safe for democracy.
    Jeff Daniels: If Trump Wins in 2020 ‘It’s the End of Democracy’
    by PAM KEY
    20 May 2019

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/20/jeff-daniels-if-trump-wins-in-2020-its-the-end-of-democracy/

    I certainly hope so.




    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    Jeff Daniels: If Trump Wins in 2020 ‘It’s the End of Democracy’
    by PAM KEY
    20 May 2019

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/20/jeff-daniels-if-trump-wins-in-2020-its-the-end-of-democracy/

    I certainly hope so.




    What if you don't like the next dictator?

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    What if you don't like the next dictator?
    To StoneByStone: Democracy breeds dictators. Democracy does not produce individual liberties Colonial men and women gave this country.

    President Lincoln was the closest thing to a dictator our REPUBLIC ‘elected’ until the XVI Amendment created the Democracy Movement. Starting with Woodrow Wilson the income tax has been nourishing elected —— and unelected —— dictators.

    Frankly, if Trump is not advocating a constitutional Republic for Venezuela I would hang tough with Maduro. In short: It is better to scratch a friendly flea-bitten dog you know than it is to adopt a rabid dog infected with democracy.

    Democrat Jerry Nadler is as dumb as a sack of rocks, while the most amazing thing about democracy-lovers in both parties is that they truly believe they are intelligent enough to erase history’s accumulated wisdom:

    I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.” Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.” John Adams

    Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few. John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, August 29, 1763

    The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. John Quincy Adams

    We are a Republican Government, Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy...it has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. Alexander Hamilton

    Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov

    An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. Voltaire

    It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell

    Democracy passes into despotism. Plato

    Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Aristotle

    Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. Aristotle

    The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill

    You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G. K. Chesterton

    Cycle of Democracy

    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

    From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

    The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

    From bondage to spiritual faith;
    from spiritual faith to great courage;
    from courage to liberty;
    from liberty to abundance;
    from abundance to selfishness;
    from selfishness to apathy;
    from apathy to dependence;
    from dependency back again into bondage.

    Alexander Tytler

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...68#post2905868
    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    To StoneByStone: Democracy breeds dictators. Democracy does not produce individual liberties Colonial men and women gave this country.

    President Lincoln was the closest thing to a dictator our REPUBLIC ‘elected’ until the XVI Amendment created the Democracy Movement. Starting with Woodrow Wilson the income tax has been nourishing elected —— and unelected —— dictators.

    Frankly, if Trump is not advocating a constitutional Republic for Venezuela I would hang tough with Maduro. In short: It is better to scratch a friendly flea-bitten dog you know than it is to adopt a rabid dog infected with democracy.

    Democrat Jerry Nadler is as dumb as a sack of rocks, while the most amazing thing about democracy-lovers in both parties is that they truly believe they are intelligent enough to erase history’s accumulated wisdom:

    I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.” Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.” John Adams

    Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few. John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, August 29, 1763

    The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. John Quincy Adams

    We are a Republican Government, Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy...it has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. Alexander Hamilton

    Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov

    An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. Voltaire

    It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell

    Democracy passes into despotism. Plato

    Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Aristotle

    Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. Aristotle

    The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill

    You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G. K. Chesterton

    Cycle of Democracy

    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

    From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

    The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

    From bondage to spiritual faith;
    from spiritual faith to great courage;
    from courage to liberty;
    from liberty to abundance;
    from abundance to selfishness;
    from selfishness to apathy;
    from apathy to dependence;
    from dependency back again into bondage.

    Alexander Tytler

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...68#post2905868
    TL ; DR

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    How fascinating. Thousands of words, mostly unread, to deflect from the real reason why democracy is in decline. That reason is authoritarian rightists and fascists who despise freedom and who worship power and wealth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazy Cat Lady View Post
    How fascinating. Thousands of words, mostly unread, to deflect from the real reason why democracy is in decline. That reason is authoritarian rightists and fascists who despise freedom and who worship power and wealth.
    This is why Conservatives are so easily swayed towards Fascism. Conservatism is about freedom, democratic elections, and "small government," but more important than all of those is power and wealth. So it's very easy to get Conservatives to forget about the formers in favor of the latters.

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    How do you know you are no longer a Democrat?

    You believe and respect the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The founding documents of the United States still matter and must not be set aside.

    You believe the right to free speech applies to everyone, regardless of political party affiliation.

    You believe in the sanctity of human life and abortion is murder.

    You believe in the Second Amendment and the right to own guns.

    You believe that the United States is a sovereign nation with recognized borders; which must be respected, guarded, and protected.

    You know there are only two biological sexes. Men pretending to be women and vice-versa is make-believe. There is no such thing as being born in the wrong body.

    You believe that men pretending to be women should not be allowed to use women’s bathrooms, nor should men be allowed in women’s dressing or locker rooms.

    You are well aware that men have a physical advantage over women in sports and men pretending to be women should be prohibited from competing in women’s sporting events.

    You believe in religious rights. Sexual orientation does not supersede your right to practice your faith, nor should you end up in a court of law, because of your faith.

    You believe the ongoing illegal invasion of foreigners is detrimental to the economic well-being of the United States and must be stopped.

    You believe in the free market, capitalist economic system.

    You don’t subscribe to the far-leftist, Marxist/Socialist ideology.

    You believe slavery was wrong, but don’t support monetary reparations be paid to descendants of pre-Civil War African slaves.

    You think that jailing or fining people for not using make believe pronouns is absurd.

    You know the Medicare for All scheme is designed to control the U.S. population by rationing health care.

    You also think it’s outrageous to promise free health care to millions of illegal invaders while millions of Americans still have no access to health care for themselves and their children.

    You don’t believe the world is going to end in 12 years, due to a harmless gas (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere.

    You realize that the UN Climate Change agenda is nothing more than a cleverly designed redistribution of wealth scheme.

    You are convinced that a group of like-minded conspirators; embedded at the FBI, CIA and DOJ attempted to circumvent the election of Donald Trump and are worthy of investigation and possible prosecution if it is determined crimes were committed.

    You’re also convinced that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is guilty of using an unauthorized, unsecured private computer server to avoid the monitoring, capture, and storage of emails and perjured herself multiple times during not one, but two Congressional hearings.

    You vehemently object to the proposed idea, supported by a majority of 2020 Democrat Presidential candidates that trillions of dollars of college student loan debt be forgiven.

    You watched the first televised Democrat Presidential debate and realize you don’t support, approve, nor agree with any of what was discussed and proposed by the 20 participants on stage.

    The fact is, you are no longer a Democrat.

    June 30, 2019
    How do you know you are no longer a Democrat?
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    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog..._democrat.html

    I would add you are no longer a Democrat when you believe:

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    The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer

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