I got this note from Bryan Morton yesterday. I think that he has hit the proverbial "nail on the head!"Bryan also asked if I have read 'Democracy, the god that Failed' by Hans Hermann Hoppe? The answer is YES! So should all of you!
INFO HERE Bryan went on to say,
"Sheep love their democracy. They love being able to decide how and when they'll get slaughtered. I wrote a blog post a while back on democracy. In it I compiled a list of things some famous and infamous people have said in regard to it. I copied the list and pasted it below for your enjoyment.
My definition of democracy is the oppression of the minority by the majority. It is a fraudulently legitimized method for government to give privilege to some by violating the rights of all the others. Is democracy in the Bible? Not specifically by name, but definitely in action."
Peace, freedom, justice and prosperity,
Bryan Morton"Democracy is the road to socialism." Karl Marx
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson
"More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life." "Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism." Vladimir Lenin
"Democracy without morality is impossible." Jack Kemp
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." "I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing." H. L. Mencken
"Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism." Ernest Mandel
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined." Norman Mailer
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." Aristotle
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner." Benjamin Franklin
"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction." Robert Welch
"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections." Lord Acton
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." "Democracy passes into despotism." Plato
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill
"Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." Ron PaulNOTICE: George W. Bush has issued Executive Orders
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