The following is my answer to a post, a quote by William P. Meyers, that responded to a post I wrote on a forum I frequent. 

 

Hey G4403;

 

     I question the credibility of the person you quoted.  I knew nothing about this person so I did a little checking and what I found out was not that favorable. 

 

     To start off with he asks a question and refers to Republicans and others as “democracy detractors” and say they refer to the “Constitution” the founding fathers and bits of history and that they believed democracies were dangerous and unworkable.  He also states that democracies and republics overlap.  To a certain extent he’s right but there are a few things that separate them that when they are held up to the light you can see the difference and why a republic is preferable.  The answer is Republic definately. 

 

     In both the majority vote to put people into what we refer to as political offices.  These people are supposed to take care of government matters because the general populace has more than enough to do taking care of normal day to day affairs of life to sit down long enough to read, debate, decide and vote on the policies that are required to run a government.  The founders and the people of the colonies knew this that is why they established the government to be as it was formed.  Especially with the “Bill of Rights” because they knew that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” thus the reason for the “Bill of Rights”. 

 

     In both forms of government the majority can vote in whatever they wanted to become law of the land.  This means that the individual out on the fringes that didn’t want to live his life exactly like everybody else was swallowed up by the majority or in some way cast out of society.  In a Republic the individual is protected by the “Bill of Rights” which means that he has the right to live his life they way he wants to as long as it harms no one else.  A democracy does not have this provision, Example “Russia (USSR).  You either go with the flow or you’re gotten rid of.  One way or another. 

 

     In a Republic, the government is limited in its power by law and is subject to the will of the people.  In a democracy the government is voted in by the will of the majority and eventually takes complete control.  He said “Democracy means rule of the People.”  That’s what they said in Russia.  Starting to sound familiar?  (USSR)?  They voted in their government and look where they wound up.  All he has been saying so far has been to soften the difference between a democracy and a republic.

 

          Where he starts with “Beginning with the Constitution’s adoption…”, he states one definite fact.  “America has been a Republic.”  And, he speaks of the trend to make it into a democracy as well.  What he fails to mention is that the trend is a downward spiral moving away from a republic.  And this is where he starts to twist history a little to the left away from a republic and toward the liberalism of democratic socialism.  I think if you do a little research and check out American History, specifically for that period, you can see for yourself. 

 

     All his criticisms of the formation of the government that it was formed to keep power and control in the hands of the rich sounds like something straight out of a communist manifesto.  The reason the different branches were formed that way was to establish a system of checks and balances to keep one branch of government from gaining too much power and establishing a government based only on what they wanted it to be.  Which is where it looks like we are headed today.  Especially when the person in the White House takes advantage of Congress being on brake to appoint someone to a position that is normally approved by Congress.  Slavery was not institutionalized, it was abolished in all but certain southern states and slave trade, importing of new slaves, was abolished there too.  He does like to twist things around doesn’t he? 

 

     What he forgot or neglected to mention was that in those states where only people who owned land were allowed to vote the people who owned land went around giving money to people, white and black, men and women, so they could buy the necessary amount of land required to vote.  Only after democracy started taking hold did certain people loose the right to vote and it wasn’t until the 1900s until they started getting it back. 

 

     He refers to the date 1913.  Don’t remember for sure but I think that is when a certain President who hated Congress and having to share power made the first significant efforts to change the balance of power.  He wanted complete control.  The disenfranchisement he refers to was brought about by this particular President and from the progressive, liberal, democratic socialist left in this country that were trying to move the nation forward like the man John Dewey who, referred to himself as a “Democratic Socialist” in and effort to disassociate himself from Marx, wrote his philosophy on experimentalism which the educational system adopted and called it progressive education which is the basis of today’s education system.  Our minds have been experimented with and our children’s minds are being experimented with in school today.  They are being taught only the truth that suits the progressive mentality and not the whole truth.  Check out a book or pamphlet called “You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows”, written by the “Weather Underground”, a radical group started in the 1960s, and check out the manifesto of the American Communist Party and see who is really in control of your lifestyle today.  And I’ve heard Clinton say she admires and respects some of those from the early 20^th Century and that some of Obama’s associates and mentors are from some of these organizations.  Maybe the influence of these people is the real reason why so many people have such little interest in voting today and they are the ones who have the most influence on who gets voted in and appointed to offices.  Just a thought.

 

     By the way, from what I read about this guy, anyone who thinks Jesus Christ is one of a long line of vampires doesn’t have much credibility with me and from what I read a lot of parents aren’t too happy with him either.  Maybe that’s why he is no longer on the school board in that county in California. 

 

                                                                                                                     Harry