If you have not studied history much it seemed like just a clever meme:
“Democrats have reached the ‘murder your political opponents’ stage of democracy.”The sad reality is that the slogan is an accurate summary of democracy. It is one of the reasons why the Founding Fathers clearly stated that they did not want to establish a democracy.
Greece is loudly touted as the source of democracy and that is generally true. What is not added is the fact that those democracies eventually deteriorated into tyranny. Several times in the history of Athens the democracy voted to execute successful military leaders because they made some people mad. Eventually things tended to get so chaotic that there was either a revolt by the oligarchy or a takeover by a strong man.
Goodby democracy.
You may have noticed all the calls for democracy by the left wing. That is because they know that the mob is easy to manipulate with fake news. I don’t know if you have seen the meme that shows Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Lion gathered around a fire made of the Scarecrow. They took a vote. The majority spoke.
Do not pray for democracy. Pray for the representative republic with checks and balances that the Founding Fathers set up.
homo unius libri
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