Now we hear people talk about Democracy this and Democracy that. We don't live in a Democracy. This is a VERY good thing. True Democracy is nothing more than rule of the mob. So if the mob happens to be in favor of Cannibalism, cannibalism it is. If the mob is in favor of Pedophilia, then pedophilia it is. If the mob votes to steal your stuff. It is done and they say it is the law.
We don't want a democracy. Now if we had an amazing education where everyone is taught critical thinking to a very high degree of skill then it might be safe. Yet without that it simply enables a particularly gifted speaker or charismatic person to turn larger groups of people into extensions of themselves. Believe the things they say. Attack the targets they indicate. Crush the non-believers.
Then there is the concept of a Republic. You don't vote. Your representative for the region you live in votes and makes the rules. Now without elections of those represented this is no more than dressing up an Oligarchy and calling it something else. If you don't get to elect your representatives then it is an oligarchy. For those of you unfamiliar with the term. It is basically the same thing as a Dictatorship but more than one person gets to make the decisions. This is also essentially what the United Nations is. I know none of you have ever elected the person to represent you in that body. Yet they are dictating the rules for the people of the world. They are also grasping for more power through organizations that are spin offs of them like the World Health Organization (WHO).
If you stop and truly think rather than taking the easy path of simply letting someone else tell you what you should believe then you might realize this is not a very good thing. In fact, it is a bad thing. You know how they talk about the lords and ladies of the Middle Ages and the "Dark Ages"? They call that feudalism. That too is very similar in exercising of power to an oligarchy with one exception. It is dynastic with ruling families and bloodlines. Yet most oligarchies end up being similar to that in the long run.
So that brings us to the concept of a Democratic Republic. We still have people that represent us and make the decisions in governing. We simply get to choose them.
That sounds good. Government of We the People. As long as your representative represents you.
Enter the problem...
Are there only two types of people in this country? No. Okay, are there only three types of people? No. Okay, how about a dozen types of people? Still no.
So you're saying you can't just pick us up and drop us all in some nice labeled boxes saying "You are A", and "You are B" and call it good?
If you could then a Democratic Republic would end up with representatives of type A, and type B.
I contend that every region is unique in some way. If you are forcing it into box A or box B then that is not truly representative. At that point even if you did vote can it truly be considered a Democratic Republic?
I personally don't think it can.
Parties are a problem. They presume people can be cast into box A, B, C, etc.
Your representative if based upon such things will usually vote in lockstep with their "party". This is often not representative of the people they were elected to represent at all.
You may have heard George Washington's farewell address where he stated to "Avoid entangling alliances". He is thought to have been speaking about alliances with foreign entities and organizations. Trade and friendship was deemed okay, but agreeing to an alliance that forces the hand of our government in one way or another was to be avoided. Contrary to the opinion of some this was not isolationism. It was simply common sense and protecting the rights of we the people. Those rights should not be bypassed due to some alliance.
I doubt at that time he thought it was necessary as he was our first President but I think this statement applies internally as well to our representative. If you are going to truly represent the people that elected you then you cannot truly do that if you are forming alliances with others in the government and allowing those alliances to bypass properly representing those that elected you.
That's all I wanted to say...
Well one other thing that can't be said enough.
"Good ideas don't require force."
The very Founding Fathers of the United States, nowhere in the Constitution they drafted did they name "democracy". In fact, many of them were strong opponents of that political system. To create and sustain a Republic, which was their original idea, is one thing, and to associate it with democracy, which is our own conception and idea, is another... Good post, my friend.
Actually they edited it out. Look at the writing it is just a translation and multiple drafts were written edited written edited written and edited...
A lot of these individuals were actually kids. It wasn't a bunch of old men and in fact life expectancy back then was only around 30s.
Luckily they did have an education to see what pure democracy as well as other forms of failed governments they could learn from.
However I'd really like to be a fly on the wall when the conversation about writing these documents with the Iroquois Confederacy was going on...
Don't forget that it was the Iroquois Confederacy that translated the Great law of Peace into the Constitution Bill of Rights and other world-changing documents.
In fact the founding fathers didn't even have the language to describe what they wanted.
This system of government is farholder than everybody realizes.
Native Americans have been holding knowledge for the rest of the world for thousands of years.
Sure. This is how everything works. I don't believe in Cultural Appropriation as a thing since Culture is just ideas. Cultural Appreciation is very much a thing though. It is how good ideas, and yes bad ideas spread from one culture to the other.
The Native Americans had a lot of different tribes and a lot of different practices just like everywhere else in the world. It wasn't all good. I say this as a person with a significant amount of Native American ancestry myself. I have quite a bit of Cherokee, and Chickasaw in my ancestry. My Step Father had Choctaw as well. I don't claim that one because it is not in my DNA.
There were some really good ideas. There were also some tribes that were pretty negative. It wasn't all peace. Yet there were definitely tribes and regions that were better in this regard than others.
Actually in fact to blow your mind check this one out...
By the way you're totally not wrong....
So this actually was a gift... It's a great law of Peace was something that was known all the way across our world and there was a lot more trade and a lot more civilization than our current history books allow. We had all sorts of knowledge and technically we were the underworld. When it was daytime in America it was night time in Egypt.
Next up the Egyptian sailed around the world and the farthest place that they could get to was Australia.
There was a lot more knowledge trade and communication then everybody realizes that was going on across the entire world.
Yep. I am aware. I am a big fan of the works of many people. Among those I include Graham Hancock, and Randall Carlson.
They have a good start however there is a lot more to our history than they understand. They aren't native and they don't really have access to our oral traditions
Yep. I follow a lot of other people. Those are just the big names. I am familiar with a lot of Sky People in parts of the country, Ant people in others, Grand Canyon area oral stories, giant red haired people, Quetzalcoatl, different cultures that there are oral stories about in Central, and South America... then the stories in Nova Scotia that seem to be Knight Templar meets Native related. There is a lot of mystery out there. There is also similar mystery in other parts of the world.
It is really annoying how so-called scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, etc. will turn their desired narrative into DOGMA and refuse to go to places if information and artifacts discovered contradict that narrative. They certainly are not practicing the scientific method despite having prestigious labels.
Or the fact that our indigenous knowledge keeps getting confirmed. It really makes them upset when our Legends actually come up being true.
The fact that there is native American DNA inside of the Icelandic Vikings? Now we are seeing science proving that the Vikings really were in North America and most likely ventured a lot deeper into America then we realize.
Definitely tag me in any information you come across I would totally love to know.
And may you have an amazing day today.
The US is dynastic. Every election, the person who had a closer lineage to the King of England won. (i read this 20 years ago, so it might not have held)
If voting mattered, they would never allow it.
The end of a Republic is when one group learns that they can vote money to themselves.
The largest voting block is unmarried women.
And most of our welfare is single mothers, and they keep demanding more.