Just because I was born with supremacist and nationalist tendencies:
It doesn’t mean, I can be trusted to rule the world.
So why would I allow a populist—worse than I—to be the boss of me?
It’s asinine to ever imagine, that it would benefit anyone.
The only way, a pluralistic society has a fighting chance for equality is:
if it hardens its democracy.
So checks and balances is the only way to go—
the executive, the legislative, the judicial—
and the free press, the watch dog over all of them.
By: ElRoyPoet © 2022
Commentary: When a country throws up its arms in disgust, because nobody wants to compromise and everybody is constantly digging in their heels, because they don’t want to relinquish the ideology of their polarized parties or culture groups. It becomes easier for society to become cynical about its democratic institutions and the government protections they provide. Physical and emotional fatigue makes cowards out of all of us, and when a patriot believes that he can’t win, he resigns to the temptation—that he perceives to be the easier way out—to forfeit democracy and let a power hungry strong man do the governing for him. In the Bible, the Jews had the opportunity to govern themselves with judges, but they always opted to relinquish their freedom to a king. This provided temporary peace of mind, but eventually the honeymoon is over and the domestic abuse begins.
See Video Kurt Bardella: Democracy Doesn’t Die In Darkness, It’s Happening In Broad Daylight
“I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that every one deserved a share in the government.
The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is that they’re not true. . . . I find that they’re not true without looking further than myself. I don’t deserve a share in governing a hen-roost. Much less a nation. . . .
The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.”
Quote by: C.S. Lewis, “Equality,” in Present Concerns (reprint: Mariner Books, 2002), p. 17.
“Without the Free Press there is no Democracy. Without Democracy there is no Free Press.” By: A. Freeman
elroypoet.blog 