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The Founders Didn’t Found a Democracy
The main strategy, it seemed, of the Democrat party for the mid-term election was the “attack on democracy.” I think I understand them correctly when I say they refer to a spin on January 6, 2020 and then the so-called “election denial” or “election denialism.” January 6 was this amazing attempt to overturn the election. It was so close to seeing Donald Trump in the White House, just razor thin.
You’ve got to have people, when it’s announced that they lost, that they concede. You give a gracious concession speech where you agree that you lost. If not, you’re attacking democracy. If later, you say something in the nature of the election being rigged against you, that will bring violence and a 1930’s Nazi takeover around the corner.
Most of the Democrat attempt to impede the expected red wave revolved around saving democracy. Based on a very general definition, the United States is a democracy. It is in the sense that legal voters elect their representatives. In that way, the people rule the country. However, the founders didn’t think they were founding a democracy.
If you google “federalist papers,” you’ll get a discussion on democracy. Speaking of democracy, Alexander Hamilton (yes, Hamilton), wrote:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
He continued in the next two paragraphs:
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.
In the answer by James Madison, the Father of the United States Constitution, he writes:
The error which limits republican government to a narrow district has been unfolded and refuted in preceding papers. I remark here only that it seems to owe its rise and prevalence chiefly to the confounding of a republic with a democracy, applying to the former reasonings drawn from the nature of the latter. The true distinction between these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion. It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.
To this accidental source of the error may be added the artifice of some celebrated authors, whose writings have had a great share in forming the modern standard of political opinions. Being subjects either of an absolute or limited monarchy, they have endeavored to heighten the advantages, or palliate the evils of those forms, by placing in comparison the vices and defects of the republican, and by citing as specimens of the latter the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy. Under the confusion of names, it has been an easy task to transfer to a republic observations applicable to a democracy only; and among others, the observation that it can never be established but among a small number of people, living within a small compass of territory.
They write much more. Their words stand on their own to repudiate the claim of American democracy. Both Hamilton and Madison argue against it.
I think the Democrat strategy won’t work. I don’t think most people even comprehend their point. “Please elect people who support your right to elect them.” If they couldn’t vote for who they wanted, it would be obvious.
If you’re thinking like me, you see an irony in the Democrat strategy. Elon Musk bought Twitter, because the Democrats who controlled the company took away the right to express an opinion. In justifying his overbid for Twitter, Musk wrote:
Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
The threat to free speech comes from the Democrats. People know they could lose their job over their opinion. Parents lost their say over the education of their children. Those with a different opinion than the Democrats can’t work in Hollywood. The mainstream media censors stories that hurt their favored political party.
The United States wasn’t founded as a democracy. Even if it was, only one political party threatens the democratic values behind the American Republic. It isn’t the Republicans.
Voting “Rights” Bill
The Democrat Party holds power in the country barely. They don’t have the Supreme Court, even though John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh both sadly voted to uphold the mandate of the vaccine for medical workers in federally funded institutions. When those people were off work, they still will have a medicine in their system that they might not want. The government should not force citizens to put something into their bodies that they do not want. Those two men swung the court to the side of the liberal justices.
The House of Representatives is a slim Democrat majority and it’s tied in the Senate 50-50 with Vice-President Kamala Harris as a tie breaker. However, as you know. at least Democrat Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia has not budged on some of the leftist agenda advocated by President Biden. Manchin might be more trustworthy than Roberts and Kavanaugh, two justices selected by Republican presidents.
The job approval rating for President Biden is very low. Rasmussen had him today at 41 approve and 58 disapprove, which is very, very low for a Democrat president. Quinnipac in its latest poll was 35 approve and 58 disapprove. Anyone in his right mind thinks the job approval should be lower than 41. Who are these people? I think we know.
The midterm elections later in November this year, as they stand, look like a surge for Republicans in both the House and the Senate, perhaps giving the Republicans a majority in the House and the Senate. If that happens, Republicans will be in charge of committees on both sides and starting up investigations on the many corruptions of this administration. Some foresee impeachment potential, but Vice President Harris may guarantee against that.
I read today that Nick Saban, the successful Alabama football coach, who grew up in a small coal mining town in West Virginia, and Jerry West, the Hall of Fame NBA basketball player and later executive, who also grew up in a small coal mining town in West Virginia, both wrote Senator Manchin a letter to vote for the voting rights bill. Saban and West could only gain in their professional careers by supporting the voting rights bill, just like NBA players stand to gain by promoting the Chinese Communist Party, despite human rights atrocities.
What are the voting rights of the voting rights bill? The voting rights bill, if passed, and then upheld by the Supreme Court, would insure that the federal government would control the way states run elections. The U. S. Constitution guarantees the state legislatures have the right to set election laws. Republicans in state legislatures are pushing to strengthen the election laws of their states in order to stop a repeat of what occurred in the 2020 election.
Covid restrictions came in handy for Democrats in 2020. They ignored state election laws. They used Covid for exceptions to election laws. Then tech titans infiltrated local election offices with money and manpower to control how elections occurred and how votes were counted. All this enabled massive ballot harvesting. Democrat operatives filled out ballots on behalf of millions who would not fill them out themselves and dumped in easily accessible boxes. That’s how Democrats won the election.
If 2020 were even a normal election with similar to normal corruption, where individuals received ballots at their homes through the mail and then mailed them in with a signature verifying the voter, the outcome would have been much different. 2020 was a dream election for Democrats, where everywhere was easier to cheat to win. They also ramped up exceedingly more than the normal mainstream media bias, hiding devastating negative stories about Democrat candidates and spreading others about Republicans.
While many locations in California require one to show an identification and vaccine pass to continue in their establishment to purchase and drink your cup of coffee, they don’t want identification for voting. In other words, they want to make it easier to cheat. In my opinion, a big part of the Democrat party does not like voting. They want something closer to the Soviet Union.
The publicity for the voting rights bill poses like a civil rights bill, that without its passing, ethnic minorities will lose their vote. If you support the bill, you aren’t a racist. If you don’t support it, you are one. Advocates portray it as supported by Martin Luther King, Jr. by his identification with voting rights. None of this is true. It’s part of the politics behind the bill, to arouse the base of the Democrat Party by making it angry about something that is really a lie. It’s actually an old strategy, replayed again and again every decade of my lifetime.
I would not think that Saban or West have even read the bill. They’ve likely been recruited to write these letters, having received an explanation of the voting rights bill by their recruiter. I would guess someone helped them “write” them. These are not normally political figures. They are two of the most famous and celebrated contemporary famous sons from the state of West Virginia. I’m glad to report that I do no think either West Virginia or Manchin will go for it. He knows it’s a “voting rights” bill and not a voting rights bill.
The Constitution as originally written did not guarantee a right to vote. It’s not in the bill of rights. States only cannot deny a right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (15th Amendment), sex (19th Amendment), failure to pay poll tax (24th Amendment), and age, 18 years and older (26th Amendment). Under Article 2, Section 4, the U.S. Constitution makes states accountable for managing federal elections. Most states then give the citizens of its state the right to vote.
States can require voter identification. That does not abridge anyone based on the amendments in the Constitution.
Voting is not a human right. It is not a natural right. It is not natural law. Those all proceed from God, not government. Voting is a civil right, which means it is given by the government. The government gives the right to vote. It can also take it away. Not everyone in this country is allowed to vote.
State governments are not trying to take away anyone’s right to vote. Right now they want to ensure that the elections of the states are not just free, but also fair. Voting can be corrupted by ballot harvesting and many other modern means to steal an election.
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