Monday, October 20, 2025

It's Not A Democracy

  Portrait of Thomas Jefferson with quote on democracy as mob rule. Portrait of John Adams with quote on democracy wasting and murdering itself. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin with quote on democracy as wolves and lamb voting on lunch, liberty as well-armed lamb. Portrait of Alexander Hamilton with quote on liberty as republican government, real liberty not found in despotism or extremes of democracy. 

If you were out marching for a democracy last weekend, you weren't marching for the  government that the founders envisioned.  In fact, you were marching for the type of government that the founders specifically wanted to avoid.  As I watch the political discourse of late, the Franklin and Jefferson quotes above seems particularly apt.  

 

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