WHAT IF OUR DEMOCRACY IS A
FRAUD?
Perhaps we’re not as
free as we think
By Andrew P.
Napolitano
July 24, 2014 "ICH" - What if
you were allowed to vote only because it didn’t make a difference? What if no
matter how you voted, the elites always got their way? What if the concept of
one person-one vote was just a fiction created by the government to induce your
compliance?
What
if democracy as it has come to exist in America today is dangerous to personal
freedom? What if our so-called democracy erodes the people’s understanding of
natural rights and the reasons for government and, instead, turns political
campaigns into beauty contests? What if American democracy allows the
government to do anything it wants, as long as more people bother to show up at
the voting booth to support the government than show up to say no?
What
if the purpose of contemporary democracy has been to convince people that they
could prosper not through the voluntary creation of wealth but through theft
from others? What if the only moral way to acquire wealth is through voluntary
economic activity? What if the government convinced the people that they could
acquire wealth through political activity? What if economic activity includes
all the productive and peaceful things we voluntarily do? What if political
activity includes all the parasitical and destructive things the government
does? What if the government has never created wealth? What if everything the
government owns it has stolen?
What
if governments were originally established to protect people’s freedoms but
always turn into political and imperialist enterprises that seek to expand
their power, increase their territory and heighten their control of the
population? What if the idea that we need a government to take care of us is a
fiction perpetrated to increase the size of government? What if our strength as
individuals and durability as a culture are contingent not on the strength of
the government, but on the amount of freedom we have from the government?
What
if the fatal cocktail of big government and democracy ultimately produces
dependency? What if so-called democratic government, once it grows to a certain
size, begins to soften and weaken the people? What if big government destroys
people’s motivations and democracy convinces them that the only motivation they
need is to vote and go along with the results?
What
if Congress isn’t actually as democratic as it appears? What if congressional
elections don’t square with congressional legislation because the polls aren’t
what counts, but what counts are the secret meetings that come after the
voting? What if the monster Joe Stalin was right when he said the most powerful
person in the world is the guy who counts the votes? What if the vote counting
that really counts takes place in secret? What if that’s how we lost our
republic?
What
if the problem with democracy is that the majority thinks it can right any
wrong, write any law, tax any event, regulate any behavior and acquire anything
it wants? What if the greatest tyrant in history lives among us? What if that
tyrant always gets its way, no matter what the laws are or what the
Constitution says? What if that tyrant is the majority of voters? What if the
majority in a democracy recognizes no limits on its power?
What
if the government misinforms voters so they will justify anything the
government wants to do? What if the government bribes people with the money it
prints? What if it gives entitlements to the poor and tax breaks to the middle
class and bailouts to the rich just to keep everyone dependent on it? What if a
vibrant republic requires not just the democratic process of voting, but also
informed and engaged voters who understand first principles of human existence,
including the divine origin and inalienable individual possession of natural
rights?
What
if we could free ourselves from the yoke of big government through a return to
first principles? What if the establishment doesn’t want this? What if the
government remains the same no matter who wins elections? What if we have only
one political party — the Big Government Party — and it has a Democratic wing
and a Republican wing? What if both wings want war and taxes and welfare and
perpetual government growth, but offer only slightly different menus on how to
achieve them? What if the Big Government Party enacted laws to make it
impossible for meaningful political competition to thrive?
What
if the late progressive Edmund S. Morgan was right when he said that government
depends on make-believe? What if our ancestors made believe that the king was
divine? What if they made believe that he could do no wrong? What if they made
believe that the voice of the king was the voice of God?
What
if the government believes in make-believe? What if it made believe that the
people have a voice? What if it made believe that the representatives of the
people are the people? What if it made believe that the governors are the
servants of the people? What if it made believe that all men are created equal,
or that they are not?
What
if the government made believe that it is always right? What if it made believe
that the majority can do no wrong? What if the tyranny of the majority is as
destructive to human freedom as the tyranny of a madman? What if the government
knows this?
What
do we do about it?
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Andrew
P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is an
analyst for the Fox News Channel. He has written seven books on the U.S.
Constitution.
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