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Democracy is Dumb!
If the title of this page insults you, then it is YOU who most need to read this site.
My purpose with this site is twofold:
- To relieve my anguish at seeing so many Americans unthinkingly throwing away the greatest governmental system in the world and,
- Provoking YOU to THINK about how absurd the idea of “democracy” is as a form of national government. (Read that again – NATIONAL government)
To be sure, “democracy” is an essential ingredient of any government that presumes to provide “freedom” for its people.
However, when our Constitution was first published around the world, it was praised NOT because it was democratic, but because of the way it employed the democratic PROCESS.
In case you are not aware of it, the ancient Greeks, 2500 years ago, first tried democracy. In fact, “democracy” is a Greek word. They attempted this experiment in just the city of Athens, and it proved to be extremely unstable. If it can’t work with a large city, how can it be expected to work in a nation the size of ours?
The men who wrote our constitution were aware of the problems encountered by the Greeks, and created a system of government that, had it survived, would have avoided those problems.
The writings I’ve included here provide plenty of quotes, with references, of the Founders. Indeed, I would never ask anyone to take my word for anything. I let the men who created our system of government speak for themselves.
I would leave you with one thought, though, concerning the notion that “democracy” can work as a form of national government:
Consider the fact that there are approximately 200 million adult American citizens. There are 535 members of Congress; 435 in the House of Representatives, and 100 in the Senate. Let’s assume that ALL members of Congress are at work 8 hours a day, five days a week, 52 weeks out of each year. Now, if just 10 PERCENT of the voting age populace called ONE of his representatives just ONCE a year, that would amount to 144 phone calls EVERY DAY for EVERY member of Congress. Can you not see how absurd, just from a logistical standpoint, that notion is? Let’s not forget, too, that those 200 million adults, along with another 100 million or so children, include members of virtually EVERY culture in the world, and live in thousands of towns, cities, and villages spread across 3.5 MILLION square miles of highly diverse land.
Do you really believe that such a nation can be effectively governed from a single location? If you do, you needn’t go any further. You’ll never understand anything that I have to say in the rest of this site.
Wayne L. Parker