What's the difference between a Constitutional Republic and a
Democracy? In a Constitutional Republic you have rights. In a
Democracy you don't. Socrates was murdered by the order of a Democratic
State. Democracy is the Authoritarianism Of The Mob. Democracy is about using other people.
The State like Fire can be useful. The State like Fire can also be destructive. An uncontrolled fire can burn down entire
structures such as homes and businesses.
It can also burn down entire city blocks or entire cities. An uncontrolled State can destroy entire
nations. Democracy is an uncontrolled form
of the State. A Constitutional Republic
is a controlled form of the State. Democracy is the political manifestation of the idea that Might Makes Right.
This editorial was originally published in the Winter 1995 issue (Volume I, Number 3) of THE RESISTER. This
editorial explains why I and a number of other rational citizens of the
American Republic will not quietly submit to the whims of the false
president Joe Biden foisted upon us by the mob of Depraved-Americans,
Corrupt-Americans, Stupid-Americans, Ignorant-Americans,
Deceased-Americans, and Imaginary-Americans.
EDITORIALS
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Democracy: The Politics of Tyranny
Rights
are a moral principle, and each man has inalienable rights over
himself, his faculties and his possessions. This moral principle, this
objective reality, means that a man has a right to his own person, his
mind and body, and therefore his own labor. Furthermore, a man has a
right to the productive use of his labor and faculties. Because a man
has these rights he must respect these rights in all others. Since each
man is sovereign over himself, each individual must consent to any
activity which directly affects his person or property before such
activity can assume moral legitimacy.
In a rational society
founded of the moral principle of rights there can be no force or fraud
in the relationship between sovereign individuals. When rights are
properly exercised they take nothing from anyone, nor do they compel
anyone to act in a manner detrimental to their own self-interest. Notice
that the rational exercise of each right enumerated in the Bill of
Rights to the Constitution by an individual takes nothing from, or
compels, other individuals in their rational exercise of these rights.
Only
individuals possess rights. Groups, being nothing more than a number of
individuals can, in themselves, possess no rights other than those
which are possessed and exercised individually by each member. Hence, a
faction has no rights; nor does a gang, a mob, a tribe, a state or a
nation. A group may hove interests but those interests do not assume the
moral legitimacy of rights. To assert otherwise is to descend into
abstract subjectivism, an evasion of reality, where a society is ruled
by the-range-of-the-moment whims of its members, the majority gang of
the moment, the current demagogue or dictator.
Government is
force. No matter how benign or dictatorial, behind every law or
regulation or act there is a gun. The authors of the United States
Constitution were fully aware of this fact. They recognized that
government in a rational society must derive its delegated powers by the
consent of the governed and that these powers must be specifically
defined by law--the Constitution; delimited by a law higher than
government--the inalienable rights of man; and dispersed by permanent
separation of powers. For these reasons they specifically and
intentionally REJECTED democracy as a system of government. The system
of government created by the Founding Fathers, men devoted to the
primacy of the source of all rights, man's faculties (which means;
reason), was the CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Democracy is the
antithesis of the natural rights of man. The philosophical premise of
democracy is egalitarianism; not political egalitarianism which holds
all men equal before the law (justice), but METAPHYSICAL egalitarianism,
the belief that all men are equal in all things. This last construct is
such an obvious falsehood that it can carry only one meaning: the
hatred of reason. Democracy, by its very definition - rule by majority -
is the notion that" might makes right." The exercise of democracy
reduces men to mere numbers, and the faction or gang which gathers the
greater number of men to its fleeting cause wields the government gun
against the minority.
From this view of the subject,
it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, by which I mean a society,
consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer
the Government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of
faction. A common passion or interest will in almost every case, be felt
by the majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from
the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the
inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of
turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with
personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been
as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.
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.
--Publius (James Madison), The Federalist X, 1787
Indeed,
specific safeguards were designed into the Constitution to prevent the
subversion of the constitutional republic and the natural rights of man
by political party gang warfare and special interest factionalism
inherent in a democracy: the Electoral College (Article II, Section 1)
and the election of senators by State Legislatures (Article I, Section
3).
In the case of the former it was specifically intended that
the head of the Executive branch of the federal government be elected by
Electors chosen by each state legislature in equal proportion to its
representation in Congress; NOT by popular vote. This ensured : "No
faction or combination can bring about the election. It is probable,
that the choice will always fall upon a man of experienced abilities and
fidelity. In all human probability, no better method of election could
have been devised." (James Iredell, North Carolina Ratification Cttee.,
1788)
The latter provision ensured the logical effect of popular
election of members to the House of Representatives (whim based
legislation) was offset by representatives elected by state legislature
to the Senate to guard against Executive and House encroachment on state
sovereignty: "The election of one branch of the Federal, by the State
Legislatures, secures an absolute dependence of the former on the
latter. The biennial exclusion of one-third, will lesson the faculty of
combination and may put a stop to intrigues." (James Madison, Virginia
Ratification Cttee., June, 1788)
The United States has been
descending into the sewer of democracy since the ratification of the
17th Amendment on May 31, 1913. Before every presidential election there
are demands by special interest groups to void the Electoral College
and resort to popular election of the President. This headlong rush into
democracy is evident by the "value" placed on public opinion polls by
politicians of both parties (a practice begun by the crypto-communist
Franklin D. Roosevelt); as if the opinions and "feelings" of factions,
gangs and tribes were a counterweight to the inalienable rights of a
single rational man.
The irrationality of democracy was stated
most eloquently by Auberon Herbert in his London address on March 9,
1880, before a meeting of the Vigilance Association for the Defense of
Personal Rights, entitled; CHOICES BETWEEN FREEDOM AND PROTECTION: "How
should it happen that the individual should be without rights, but the
combination of individuals should possess unlimited rights?"
--Alexander Davidson
The following was originally published in the eighth (Spring 1996)
issue of THE RESISTER and posted online as an ASCII text.
Democracy Is No Excuse
by
D. van Oort
Democracy
is the unlimited rule of the majority; nothing more, nothing less.
There is no escaping that such a rule is as unlimited in its scope as it
is unmitigated in its severity. In our past, when people did not try so
desperately to escape the inescapable, democracy was referred to as
"the tyranny of the majority." Men within government did not advocate
such a tyranny if they expected to be admired and re-elected. Today, as
looters and destroyers, they do.
When you hear the claim,
"America is a democracy," it is invariably a response to the reporting
or predicting of some inexcusable piece of tyranny, and it usually
emanates from the would-be tyrant or from his chorus. Of the many lies
concealed within their claim, the first one we need to catch them in is
the one that says that they believe that America is a democracy.
Every
time one of them uses democracy as an excuse for something tyrannical,
that some alleged majority supports, there is another time when he uses a
different excuse for the same kind of tyranny while admitting that no
one supports it at all. For example; the same President who wanted to
"restore democracy" in Haiti, sent American soldiers to Bosnia under
foreign command while openly admitting that the majority of Americans
opposed it. The same Congress that brought us the assault weapon ban on
the belief that a majority of Americans wanted it, brought us NAFTA on
the belief that what the majority of Americans want is of no
consequence.
Those examples reveal that democracy is not a
consistent standard by which political actions are taken; rather, it is
simply an occasionally convenient excuse for taking those actions in the
first place. The moral code those actions are intended to enforce is
altruism, the evil doctrine that one has the right to exist only if he
serves others. The intended result of consistent altruism is fascism[1],
an omnipotent state to enforce complete servitude. Since evil policies
in a constitutional republic require a pseudo-legal cover story to
excuse them, fascists have found it more convenient to keep on hand a
grab-bag of rationalizations, rather than principled reasoning with
which they might have to remain consistent. Our war of attrition against
their cover stories brings us to the grab-item called "democracy." We
will show that there is no excuse for fascism (or socialism or
communism), and democracy is no excuse for an excuse.
Nowhere in
the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the
Constitution or the Bill of Rights, can the word "democracy" be found.
Neither can one find references to democracy in the works of the Framers
in other than disparaging terms. Democracy is a form of dictatorship.
Consider that the Declaration of Independence is a statement of American
principle, and that while socialism, communism and theocracy deny the
correctness and extent of those principles, unlimited majority rule
denies statements of principle altogether. Consider that the
Constitution limits how the government makes and enforces laws, and that
the Bill of Rights limits the specific content of those laws.
Socialism, ommunism and theocracy reject those limitations in favor of
their own limiting ideologies and precepts, but only democracy rejects
all limitations, and quite literally uses that as its selling point.
Democracy
is neither legally nor theoretically possible in any country that
possesses even a single over-riding legal document. The two simply
cannot coexist. When a system such as democracy is touted as beneficial,
but is clearly and historically detrimental, the ideas alleged to
excuse it obviously fail to do so.
A case in point is democracy's
proclaimed moral justification. None has ever been presented. The
notion of unlimited majority rule is two thousand years old. In all this
time, no one has offered a clear and coherent moral excuse for it.
(Consider the excuses you have heard or read.) The closest excuse for
this excuse is: "majority rule is right because it benefits the
majority." Circular illogic based on the false premise that tyranny is
beneficial does not justify anything, nor does it even attempt to
explain how it could be right if three voted to send two to a gas
chamber. The next step down is: "majority rule is right because it works
for the common good." Note that the only change is the addition of a
second false premise: that the common good includes the minority of two
sent to the gas chamber.
Throughout history and in the present
day, advocates of unlimited majority rule have never admitted to anyone
what their true justification is. Since democracy sanctions only the
group with the greatest numbers, then it ultimately sanctions only the
strength of that group. This means: how many votes it can cast, how many
picket signs it can carry, how many fists it can swing, or how many
bullets it can fire. For two thousand years, the sole moral
justification of democracy--the skeleton in the closet--is that MIGHT
MAKES RIGHT. Beginning with Socrates' yammering, in acceptance of his
death sentence, through Ross Perot's referendums about "taking it to the
people," and all the statistics about percentages of idiots favoring
gun control, "might makes right" is the sole justification. Nothing else
is stated, nothing else is possible, nothing else has occurred in any
democracy, and nothing else was ever intended to.
As an alleged
moral code, "might makes right" is ageless. It is not an ideology or
even part of one. It is not unique to man or to human history. The
perceptual-level consciousness of a hyena pack on the Ngorongoro Crater
understands and lives by "might makes right." The earliest theropod
dinosaurs in the Triassic jungles of Pangaea learned as babies that
"might" applied to a nest-mate "makes" a result that was as "right" as
they could conceive it. The sensate-level consciousness of the first
organism in the universe lived by "might makes right." (It is worth
noting that advocates of democracy usually refer to their agenda as
"progressive.")
"Might makes right" is the proper code of animals
because, to live as an animal, a mind is not required. The human mind
is what separates us from animals, and to live as a human, a mind is
required. Democracy denies this. "Might makes right" claims that there
is nothing that separates us from animals, and that to live as a
human-animal, a mind is not required at all.
Advocates of
democracy demonstrate very clearly that they believe that. Consider
their intellectual excuse for might making right. If force is the
determining factor, then principle and fact are not. The most idiotic
idea is just as good as the most brilliant. If a group wants one and one
to equal three, and can beat up the group that does not, then one and
one equal three.
Democracy is pure subjectivism. Advocates of
democracy believe that no idea is better than any other (and that that
idea is better than any other). They believe that man cannot determine
the facts of reality (and that is a fact of reality they have
determined). Advocates of democracy contend there exists nothing but
subjective whims (but their whims are not subjective). They conclude
that there are no facts at all (and that's a fact).
Their excuse
for might making right is that all excuses are equally valid. That ugly
little confession is the intellectual equivalent of suddenly blurting
out a sexual perversion, but while the pervert might notice that he has
done this, advocates of democracy remain oblivious. They rarely notice
the staggering amount of doublethink in their claims, and are never
bothered by it. (If they are philosophy students, doublethink is
"profound.") They expect man to renounce his mind just because they have
thoroughly renounced their own. They say that a mind is not required to
live as a human, and they prove it by showing that a mind is not
required to advocate democracy.
One would be right to ask at this
point, "Just what color is the sky in their world, anyway?" Now we have
entered the most basic branch of philosophy, "metaphysics," which seeks
to answer the question of what kind of creature we are and what kind of
universe we live in.
Democracy demands that they put the color
of their sky to a vote if official answers are to be made concerning it.
They must do this because they believe that there are no facts,
therefore, they don't know because they can't know.
Their most
fundamental belief is that reality is unknowable. The universe is either
chaotic mush, one big illusion, or both. To an advocate of unlimited
majority rule, man has no objective nature that requires specific rules
of conduct because reality itself has no objective nature that can be
determined.
The metaphysic of democracy explains the psychology
of its advocates. If men can know nothing, but still have desires, then
there is no way of knowing how to suppress those desires, or fulfill
them. We would be incapable of anything but misery, and unsuited for
anything but death. Our universe would not just be unknowable, but evil
as well, and would not consist of facts we can build on, but only of a
long torturous obstacle course we can bleed in.
If the universe
can help us, we have no way of knowing about it until after we have been
helped. Thus, we shun self-reliance and promote the welfare state. If
the universe can hurt us, we have no way of knowing about it until after
we have been hurt. Thus, we fear the black magic inherent in guns. In
essence--and you can ask them about this--democracy's advocates say:
"We're all just cripples in an evil universe, we can't help it, we can't
know any better, we're just animals, so we get to beat you up!" That is
their excuse for democracy.
As with all political systems, the
results of unlimited majority rule are unavoidably linked to its
ideology. If a system is based on good premises, it will produce good
results, and will therefore attract good people. If it is based on evil,
it will produce evil, and will attract only evil.
Knowledge of
reality is easy and begins with any statement such as "existence exists"
or "what is, is." Thus, the basis of democracy is a falsehood. Man
cannot live by falsehoods, whether personally or socially enshrined.
Ignorance means death, and any belief set preaching ignorance will only
produce death. Only men who seek destruction will be attracted to
democracy.
Advocates of democracy admit with every revealed
contradiction that they do, in fact, believe that reality is knowable.
Thus, the basis of democracy is an intentional falsehood. Man cannot
live by lies, and any ideology preaching lies is designed to produce
death, and will attract only fools, liars and killers.
Democracy
does not recognize the individual, and thus attracts collectivists. It
has no principles to offer, and thus attracts the unprincipled. Its only
appeal is to evil because that is its nature, over which even the best
man with the purest motives has no control. Those who are evil know very
well the nature of the systems they design or support, and the nature
of unlimited majority rule will be the same whether it is an excuse for
fascism or for anything else. At the very instant democracy is enforced
on a population, it begins to destroy that population psychologically.
Ayn
Rand once said, "[T]he smallest minority on earth is the individual."
This means that every man is always in the minority, and that all other
men are, or might be, members of some majority that can murder him at
its pleasure. Any man who proclaims that, "it's a dog-eat-dog world," or
that, "you gotta get them before they get you," is a man already
suffering the psychoses of democracy.
He cannot heal them by
joining a group, where democracy begins destroying populations
physically. If he joins a minority, the forces of the majority can be
unleashed against him today. If he joins a temporary majority, the
forces of the next majority can be unleashed against him tomorrow. If he
spends his fearful life desperately joining only majority groups --
seeking his "safety" every minute in the no-rules obstacle course of
keeping up with one or the other obedient herd -- damning his
individuality which sets him apart from them, then the forces of his own
mind are already unleashed against him, and he begins to destroy
himself mentally and physically.
The forces of the majority have
already been unleashed against minority groups of "separatists"
(self-sufficient), "cultists" (strong believers) and "extremists"
(non-compromisers). Those forces are now being unleashed against
ex-majority groups such as the middle-class employees of K-mart. Men
spending their lives in pursuit of permanent majority status, who fear
to stand out by so much as waving at a policeman, smoking a cigarette,
or reading The Resister[2], are becoming used to unleashing the forces
of their own minds against themselves.
Man cannot find peace when
set up as enemy of all other men; he cannot live by being slaughtered
with his group today, he cannot build a future by being slaughtered with
his group tomorrow, and he cannot save his soul by slaughtering it
himself. Democracy is not a system under which men choose their manner
of living, it is a system under which they choose only their manner of
death. Such destruction is not an abuse of the system--it IS the system.
Democracy is not a system for man; it is a system against him.
On
the whole Democracy is an inexcusable excuse to excuse the
inexcusable. Fascism is no excuse for lying about believing in American
democracy. There's no excuse for believing in democracy in a
constitutional republic. There is no excuse for democracy and democracy
is no excuse for fascism.
1 Do not confuse The Resister's
use of the word "fascist" with its ordinary use by liberals, communists,
and minority pressure groups. Liberals, communists, and minority
pressure groups call anybody who opposes their social democratic,
statist or tribalist agendas "fascists." Fascism and communism are
merely variant forms of statism, which is the collectivist premise that
individuals are rightless slaves, and that the state is omnipotent. Both
fascism and communism are socialist. Communism is the public (read
government) ownership of the means of production, thus abolishing
private property. Fascism permits the pretense of property ownership,
but without the right to use property for personal advantage -- property
must be used for "the public good." (Does the phrase "good corporate
citizen" ring a bell? Does the current systematic destruction of the
tobacco industry -- to name but the most recent industry -- strike a
chord?) JFA Davidson
2 The author is referring to those who read
mooched copies of The Resister, but will not subscribe to it because
they don't want their name on "a list." This is a craven admission that
they want to think for themselves, but they don't want anyone to know
about it. Who says democracy doesn't work?
JFA Davidson.
They're
about to learn though direct experience that Reality isn't subject to a
majority vote. Oppression by a majority is still oppression. When
idiots like Gavin Newsom are elected. There will be idiocy in
government.
