Redneck Review!
No. 209 - 4/29/2019
Why not start this review with a challenge?   A bold one even!  Could someone out there help me understand why our country, America, continues to dabble more and more with the failed political system of DEMOCRACY and its economic partner SOCIALISM? I am serious!  For reasons which will be presented below, it seems to me that any individual who has knowledge of history, or who uses a somewhat lost art of COMMON SENSE would reject the whole idea immediately, and not buy into the increased acceptance we find growing in our country today! And why is it that the Democratic Party which used to be the dominant one in our area years ago, has become the outspoken supporter of both DEMOCRACY as a political system, and its companion economic system SOCIALISM, rather than remembering that our nation from the beginning was a REPUBLIC, fueled by an economic system best named FREE ENTERPRISE.
Here is what baffles me! Listed below one at a time are many reasons I find absolutely prohibit me from even the smallest amount of support for this SOCIALISM idea, and the political system of DEMOCRACY which naturally leads to it!
1)Is it not true that the United States is the fastest growing, most envied, wealthiest nation in the history of the world?  The one which today is having a huge problem with people from all around the world wanting to come here by the thousands?  Read the article in the current Tribune today, about the "people from everywhere" jammed up in southern Mexico, all wanting to cross our southern border. And why do they want to come here?  Ask them! Could it be our recognized FREEDOM?  Could it be the OPPORTUNITY our system offers to make a home and earn a living?  Maybe it is our overwhelmingly generous system of aid or assistance which provides free this and that to people, who many times live better than those who work hard for a living?
2) And how did we get this reputation?  Really!  Is it not true that the amazing explosion of America's growth and prosperity has much to do with the beliefs of the founding Fathers, and their willingness to put into action life styles based on belief in God and responsibility of HIS creatures?  Will any reader out there dare to challenge the accepted and provable claim that those early Americans were for the most part Christians who attempted to live by
the Ten Commandments, and the Great Commandment, "Love God and neighbor as one self?"  And who would dare to challenge the claim  that our nation was a REPUBLIC from the very beginning, and not a DEMOCRACY which so easily leads to socialism!? Following are a few comments that suggest that DEMOCRACY was a "NO-NO" for our early founders:
Thomas Jefferson - "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, when 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."
Alexander Hamilton – “Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy."
James Madison - "Democracy is the most vile form of government... Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
John Marshall, Supreme Court chief justice - "Between a balanced Republic and a Democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."
John Adams - "Democracy... while it last is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy.  Remember, a democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself, There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
(Topic concluded next week!)
Jake Wren

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