The word Democracy is bandied about as if that is what the United States is and is supposed to be, and that it is the best and freest form of government available, as if the only choices are Communism, Democracy, or Dictatorship.
If you click on the above image, you will see a short video on the topic of bringing democracy to Burkina Faso with its present dictator (President), Ibrahim Traore. The interviewer is pressing him to convert his country into a Democracy with elections as quickly as possible, as if the current state of dictatorial control is a dangerous situation.
Traore brings up an important point – you must have fair and secure elections to have any form of Democracy or any sort of representative form of government.
Burkina Faso is experiencing rapid growth and prosperity due to having amased sufficient military might, with the help of communist Russia, to resist old and powerful colonial and capitalist exploitation. It has achieved this via a benevolent dictatorship. It is in a phase where external powers such as France and the CIA (A.K.A. The United States) are attempting to destabilize and attack the small land-locked nation in Africa. Not only has Burkina Faso exposed and proven some of the sources which are behind the attacks they have received, but they have so far successfully resisted these attacks and other African nations are joining them in a security pact of cooperation.
It is not surprising that the superpower nations don’t like this. The prices of all Africa’s valuable and raw materials will cost more, and many wealthy middlemen will stop receiving the lucrative benefits derived from the old tactics of exploitation.
The founders of our Republic knew and clearly stated many times that Democracy is not a stable form of government when it has direct and fully empowered rule by the majority.
The “Rule of Law” implies a Republic, which comes from the Latin words that translate into “the people’s thing”. Law is the people’s thing. To understand a Republic, one must understand Law.
Law is not simply decrees and rules passed by a legislature to impose behavioral limits on its citizens. Our Laws derive from the idea of the Common Law, which are rules similar to the second plank of the 10 commandments that keep individuals limited to acts that do no harm and even love others.
Proper Republican Law cannot redistribute wealth. It cannot confiscate property. It cannot enforce a religion or limit the freedom to obey one’s conscience – an internal law of love. It cannot provide for national or individual security. It cannot be robbed by inflation. Its main purpose is to dictate what constitutes a crime, which is an act that harms the rights, property, or liberty of others. Note that Liberty is not a license to do whatever one pleases. It is the right to do what does not harm others. True law enforces love for one another and nothing more.
America is no longer a Republic because its laws stray far from the boundaries of the correct purpose of Law.
In a way, it is accurate to call the US a Democracy because it is in transition (which is nearly complete) from limited constitutional government toward unlimited tyranny, be it by the majority, a dictator, or an elite oligarchy.
Just as Burkina Faso isn’t ready for true representative government under law, nor is the USA able to have it because it has strayed from true Law, true Justice, and true Liberty.
To get there, we need:
- Secure and Free Elections
- A truly free press
- True privacy
- Honest money
- Responsible, Moral, and Educated (not indoctrinated) citizens
- Honest Language
- Efficient, fair, cheap, affordable, and accessible Justice
- The will to stop exploiting each other, collectively and individually, and to instead provide for ourselves without harm to others, as Burkina Faso is attempting to do.
There are a lot of subtle points implied by this article that I cannot get into at this point in time. For example, “secure” elections are not created by a national ID card but by voting at local precincts, who know their neighbors, and meeting at a specific time and place to vote, with counting done locally and publicly using simple paper ballots.