YouTube, the DNC and the Myth of Democracy

America is not and has never been a democracy. The Founding Fathers never intended it to be.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
—Benjamin Franklin

"We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy... It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."
—Alexander Hamilton

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
—John Adams

"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 death.
—James Madison

"The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived."
—John Quincy Adams

American is a Republic that utilizes the democratic process in part of its operation. But Democrats don't really follow the same way of thinking as the Founding Fathers, for example compare...

"We need to stop worrying about the rights of the individual and start worrying about what is best for society." —Hillary Clinton

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." —Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, June 28, 2004

...to...

"...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men." -- Adolf Hitler

...and you can see what I mean.

The YouTube/DNC debate amply illustrated the absurdity of trying to pretend Democracy alone is a viable form of government. Hoping to tap into the wisdom of the average American via YouTube, the Liberal dimwits at the DNC opened a Pandora's giggle-box of morons, idiots and amateur comedians. One of the Wired News blogs describes the debate fairly accurately...

With questioners ranging from a talking snowman to a man strumming a guitar, the users of YouTube proved once again that the masses are, if nothing else, more unpredictable than your typical debate moderator.

As for the candidates, they managed to dodge questions, brush off pointed inquires for position statements and generally skate by on vague promises with the same aplomb they’ve mastered in more typical debates.

I guess Winston Churchill put it best when he said, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

...or five minutes watching YouTube videos.

Our system of government is designed to allow citizens to participate in electing government leaders while buffering those same citizens from the direct consequences of their own stupidity, by then having those they vote for make or execute the laws. It's not a democracy. If we were a democracy we'd be voting on the laws themselves, not just on the politicians.

Ironically, the rare occasions when citizens can vote directly on laws—ballot initiatives—Democrats are almost always the ones opposing them by attempting to get the courts to prevent them or throw them out afterward. Obviously even they don't really like the idea of democracy; they just pretending they do to con more of the stupider voters into voting for them.

Well, at least no one asked what kind of underwear they wear.

Posted by Danny Carlton at July 25, 2007 7:36 AM