What is so frightening is the fact that most people don’t even know what kind of government America is. People have been taught for so long that America is a democracy. The word democracy doesn’t appear in The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, or any of the fifty states’ constitutions, yet people believe this about their nation. It wasn’t until Woodrow Wilson said this for the first time that we even thought of ourselves as a democracy.

In the past, even the word democrat was considered an insult. To call someone that, was to say that a person was into mob rule and had mob mentality. The founding fathers did not set up a democracy and thought of that form of government as severely flawed. Still, even our presidents in the modern age think we are a democracy and go around the world spreading and promoting this failed form of government.

One does not have to look too far to see the pernicious results of democracy. When in the George Bush years, all of these Middle Eastern countries started having elections, the worst kind of people were put into office. A straight-out democracy can put in power whatever capricious wind that is carrying through the mob. There is no better example of this than the terrorist group Hamas who was voted into power by the mob over and over again. In an instant, democracy made a terrorist organization a legitimately elected government. Democracy allowed Hugo Chavez to stay in power gobbling up all the country’s power and resources.

A straight-out majority vote as a form of governing is a recipe for disaster. Even saying that America is a Jeffersonian form of democracy is a slippery slope. The founding fathers set up a “Representative Republic” and not a democracy. It is time that people researched what that means. It is time for people to perceive how far we have truly drifted from our roots. It starts by picking up a book and doing some reading for once. It starts with you demanding that your representatives in this republic do the same when they proclaim the Electoral College must go.

C. Rich

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C. Rich

C. Rich is the voice behind America Speaks Ink, home to the America First Movement. As an author, poet, freelance ghostwriter, and blogger, C. Rich brings a “baked-in” perspective shaped by growing up on the streets and beaches of South Florida in the 1970s-1980s and brings a quintessential Generation-X point of view.

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