Lux Lucet

For my part, I find the saying “our democracy” among the most annoying and disingenuous turns of phrase out there. 

One way in which it’s annoying and disingenuous is that it’s inaccurate.  The most basic definition of “democracy” is a system of government based on majority rule.  Some have jokingly pointed out the principal problem with democracy by describing it as a system in which two wolves and a sheep vote and what’s for dinner.  What the majority wants, the majority gets.  That’s democracy.

But the United States is not now, nor has it ever been a democracy.  When asked what kind of a government the Constitutional Convention had planned, Benjamin Franklin responded, “A republic if you can keep it.”  The United States has been a constitutional republic ever since 1788, and at no time has it been a democracy in the sense that majority rule decides all questions.

Perhaps one reason “our democracy” has been popularized by the Democrats – and it is chiefly Democrats who use this term – is because they’re Democrats.  One would expect the Democrat party to prefer to speak of “our democracy” rather than “our republic” as the former term is in keeping with the party’s name, while the latter reminds one of the Republicans. 

Perhaps also the Democrats are trading off the party’s historic reputation as the party of the working man.  If this is the case, then it is an outrageous lie.  The Democrat party has not only abandoned the American working class but actively hates them, in particular, the white working class.  Far from representing the working man, the Democrats have become the abode of Wall Streeters, globalists, the “cognitive elite,” wokesters. homosexuals, transgenders, and other perverts.  Normal, middle-class, working Americans have no representation in the current iteration of the party.

But there’s a more sinister side to the use of the term “our democracy” by the Democrats.  When they use this term, what they mean by “our democracy” is really “our policies.”  And if you disagree with “our policies,” that is, the policies of the Democrats, then you’re labeled by them a white supremacist, antisemitic, racist, ultra-MAGA, homophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, antivaxxing, superspreading, election denying, insurrectionist threat to “our democracy.”  In other words, you’re pretty much a charter member of Hillary’s “basket of depolorables.”

And, so the logic goes, such threats to democracy cannot be allowed to speak.  They have no place in “our democracy.” For if they are allowed to speak, if they are allowed to function as normal people in society, they’ll spread misinformation and disinformation far and wide and threaten the very underpinnings of “our democracy.”  Therefore, in order to preserve “our democracy,” we must make sure that those who disagree with us cannot engage in the democratic process.  We must, Must, MUST!, make sure that such people are purged from social media, locked up in jail, locked down in their homes, and have their candidates denied access to the ballot.  That is, we must destroy democracy in order to save it. 

Kind of ironic, is it not?

Such is the intellectual trajectory of the United States in the Year of Our Lord 2023. 

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