State of the Republic

“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”
-- Noam Chomsky

America, in its current state is partaking in an epic struggle that has been going on now since the end of the second world war. We are using our military to spread the ideology of our own people to others, in the name of fighting terrorist and evil dictators who rule unjustly over their own people. America has given its self an image of what America really is. All people are free, every one being equal and having the same rights as everyone else. The essential freedoms outlined in the constitution protect them from tyranny, though no natural American citizen even knows what a tyrant is supposed to look like, we are more concerned about political bickering then actually furthering a national agenda.

Every time our President gets the chance, he will declare to the world we are spreading democracy, we are spreading peace and love. Through the sites of a gun, all men will be free. To replace a tyrant in the middle east, or anywhere for that matter if you remove the native government and install a form that is completely alien to the ones that would now be responsible for upholding, you make the scenario for disaster.

The problem is that democracy, while it works relatively well in America, is not destined for all people, and not all people will except it, and eventually most people will move away from the ideology that democracy is the only way to be free. We are doing this, influencing people to become a democratic state in the hopes that they to can be as great as America and letting them down, sometimes ending worse then they where under the tyrant, such as is the case with Iraq at this moment. Other countries raped by Democracy are Congo, 2.5 million dead in the “democratic” state. Palestine, the elected government is never good enough for her neighbor Israel, typically ending in raids and further death. Many states under the guise of democracy to appease the Western civilians use the power to destroy the lives of their people. This is nothing new… Hitler was elected.. Saddam was elected, the current president of Iran was elected.. if they are elected, are they not then the representation of the people? .. well, hypothetically sure, if you don’t think Democracy can be altered, high jacked, and essentially destroyed.

When we replace tyrants, if you could call some of them tyrants, then you would expect the replacement government, interim or permanent elect to be more moral and conscious of the people. This of course has to assume the government we replace won’t be corrupt and taken over through corporate or be a tyrant in disguise. Not all democracies are the same either, not a single one is to much alike. Americas closest ally since the second world war is England, which is a constitutional monarch. They still have elections, but they also have a queen, the same goes for Spain and many other nations. Another form of Democracy is socialistic democracy. This form of democracy is strong in Europe and Canada; it is a form of government that takes up a lot of responsibilities like free healthcare, owning hospitals and power companies and has much higher tax rates. Though they may not be pure, because they vote though they are in a sense democratic.

Is it possible to have pure Democracy? No, not unless you are in a much smaller population with limited ground to cover, a vast nation like America will never have a pure democracy. Athens, during the golden age of Greece was a pure democracy in the sense that the citizens voted directly in the elections and they would partake enthusiastically in the political system, though it was a democracy it still eventually fell.

America is not even a real true democracy, we are a Republic, a Republic of sovereign states united. We do not individually cast votes for a president, a man to lead us, instead we elect a person to vote for us, and the way the electoral college is set up the man we vote to vote does not have to follow our suggestion as to who to vote for. America is made up of states and common wealth’s who have agreed to come together and establish a union for the protection of one another. Ever since the United States was born more and more power has been fed to the federal government and eventually will consume to much power. The “electoral college” is just an example of an early day state right granted to the individual states.. They elect the president, technically.. but the threat from democracy does not come from outside, it comes from within. When you elect a man into power, he is given a set of rules and restrictions.. but in his mind he is the leader, it is the natural human tendency. Every leader since the creation of the United States has take.. little, tiny pieces of power from other branches, from states, from individuals. Eventually, through frustration and greed the elected official, typically in a time of crisis, will siege and consolidate power to the point democracy no longer exist. This is the fate of all democracies.

-Rock