Hail Cesar!
Two New York publications decry the messiness of elections. Those leftist news organizations prefer an ‘elegant’ means of selecting presidents. The elitist editors and influencers, oligarchs-in-waiting, demonstrate a profound ignorance of basic civics.
YouTube video, December 12, 2021 – Hillary Clinton: Trump Winning 2024 Election Could Be ‘End Of Democracy’ – ”Russia, Russia, Russia”
YouTube video, November 2, 2022 – President Biden Delivers Remarks on Preserving and Protecting Our Democracy
The oligarchs-in-waiting who control the Democratic Party strive to dismantle our constitutional republic. They want a democracy, instead.
The Electoral College is a Constitutional Process
We, the People, do not elect presidents. The STATES elect presidents. Think for a moment. The title of the president is “President of the United States.” The popular vote within each state connotes the favored presidential candidate.
Civics miseducation throughout the country fails to teach the meaning of a state. “As a noun, a people permanently occupying a fixed territory bound together by common habits and custom into one body politic exercising, through the medium of an organized government, independent sovereignty and control over all persons and things within its boundaries, capable of making war and peace and of entering into international relations with other states.”
Each of our 50 states and territories of the United States exercises the popular vote to elect (to choose) various leaders: governors, state lawmakers, judges, county commissioners, etc.
Our nation is not a state but a federation of states. A federation is a union of states, societies, etc., each of which keeps control of its own internal affairs.
The Electoral College is a process, not a club, not a place of higher education. From the National Archives: “The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress.”
Texas and California have one point of commonality: they are individual states. In bygone years, Texas was a Democrat state, and California was a Republican state. In those years, Democrats and Republicans had certain distinctions, but they generally were similar in their respective worldviews. Over my lifetime, Texas has become a Republican majority state while California is the opposite, a Democrat majority state. For several years, Republicans have been fleeing California to reside in Texas, where the Californians have “common habits and customs.”
Democrat Congressmen and Congresswomen despise our constitutional republic, striving to convert our federation into a democracy. If they succeed, our nation, as a federation of sovereign states, will swiftly become a solitary state ruled by tyrants.
Democracy vis-a-vis Constitutional Republic
Democrats, in particular Joe Biden, speak about our Democracy being threatened. I ask you, “What democracy?”
A simple word search of the National Archives will reveal zero, none, nada instances of the words democracy or democratic. Try a search of the text of the transcriptions of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10), and Amendments 11-27.
The Constitutional Republic of the United States of America has endured 236 years (1787-2023).
“The United States will have lasted at least 246 years, counting from the first Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, to 2022. Of course, it took another 200-plus years for the nation to become what it has by the 21st century.” World Population Review As of July 4, 2023, the United States of America has endured 247 years.
The chief difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic is simply this: a constitutional republic operates under a set of rules, a set of laws, that guarantee equal protection of the laws, as per the 14th Amendment, Section 1, applies to citizens, tourists, legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. — AMENDMENT XIV, Section 1
Democracies are characterized by mob rule
“The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority’s ability to harm a minority.” James Madison, the principle author of the U.S. Constitution
“Mob rule can only serve to demoralize our people and shake their faith in our government and our way of life. As the mob rises, civilization recedes.” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), The Danger of Mob Rule, June 22, 2020
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” H.L. Mencken
“[T]he mob is the most ruthless of tyrants.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“Actually, in its essence, democracy is a totalitarian ideology, though not as extreme as Nazism, fascism or communism. In principle, no freedom is safe in a democracy, every aspect of the individual’s life is potentially subject to government control. At the end of the day, the minority is completely at the mercy of the whims of the majority. Even if a democracy has a constitution limiting the powers of the government, this constitution too can be amended by the majority. The only fundamental right you have in a democracy, besides running for office, is the right to vote for a political party. With that solitary vote you hand over your independence and your freedom to the will of the majority.” Frank Karsten, Beyond Democracy: Why democracy does not lead to solidarity, prosperity and liberty but to social conflict, runaway spending and a tyrannical government
My Opinion
Over my lifetime, I have instructed technicians, engineers, and salesmen. My teaching method is from a historical perspective. Understanding the history of any particular field of interest provides a basis for the student to build on the successes of his or her predecessors.
Edmund Burke famously said, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” A friend recently asked, “Why do you study history so much?” I responded, “Because there is so much of it I do not want to repeat.”
Civics and history are two educational disciplines inextricably connected as though Siamese twins.
I agree with H.L. Menken’s statement, “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” The author of the Declaration of Independence points to public education as the means for the general public to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
“I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” — Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
Knowledge is Power
John White
Rockwall, Texas
John N. White 