12-30-2025
Defending Democracy – Patriotism or Politics?
As we prepare to ring in the New Year I think it’s a good idea to take a new look at the word Democracy.
What is democracy? The very beginning of the word Democracy is the root word – Demon. Thus one could surmise that a Democracy is simply a Demon controlled government. The love of money is the root of all manner of evil and a Democracy is channeling that love of money through very select hands at or very near the top, while stripping it from those who work hard to earn it. The very first way is when money is taken from the poor through a process called taxes and filters UP to those with huge coffers (banks) and used to “take care of” everyone equally. Remember one size fits all? In reality the ones who are taken care of are the ones in charge.
How does one go about defending democracy? There are many ways: religion, politics and/or military force can be used to defend the power of the democratic elite. When all else fails, chaos, rioting and public disobedience in the form of resistance become viable options.
Is democracy something that needs to be defended? The powerful are always fearful of having that power taken away, so defending “their” democracy is an essential part of ruling over people.
How do you measure democracy? By how many are at the top and who controls it.
American politicians want us to believe that defending democracy is their right and everyone who doesn’t support their ideas is in fact destroying their democracy.
Recently in the news are reports that Communist China is conducting war games around the island of Taiwan, that China claims is and will always be Chinese. In reality China detests the support Taiwan has from the United States. China claims to be defending democracy.
Looking at the global community it’s easy to spot nations who favor democracy by naming their countries, like The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) as well as Cuba, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Venezuela (to name a few).
This leads me to believe that the word democracy is really about power. Defending democracy is defending power, power over people under their control, nations who threaten their power and insuring that there is no end of their power.
The United States of America is not, nor was it ever a democracy because the founding fathers knew that democracies never last. Power is always filtered to the very top layer of society who end up controlling the people.
Our nation was not founded as a Democracy, but as a Constitutional-Republic where the Rule of Law (Law of the Land) comes from the US Constitution and where ultimate power is retained by the people (citizens). The power of the government is restricted by the Constitution. When the government becomes unresponsive to the people the Constitution provides a means to dissolve and reform the government.
Patriotism is loyalty to the nation, its flag that stands for Freedom. Patriotism is protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies both foreign and domestic. – RTM
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