“Socialism — it starts with democracy. That’s the ticket for the left. They want to push this idea of democracy, which turns into socialism, which turns into communism in every instance.”
I had never heard of the guy who said this until I saw it on Facebook today. Ryan Kelley is running for the Republican nomination for governor of Michigan, and I would be willing to bet he’s the farthest to the right of any of the candidates.
In case you’re confused, right wingers love to point out that we are not a democracy, that it doesn’t really matter of a majority of Americans — even a large majority — wants something.
You see, the Founding Fathers never intended that everyone should vote and that issues should be determined by which side gets the most votes.
Who should vote?
Well, rule out African-Americans. They were counted as three-fifths of a person for population, but you cannot cast three-fifths of a vote.
Rule out women too. They were considered subservient in just about every way.
Rule out children too. Remember, seen and not heard back in those days.
The real sticking point, and the place where democracy became republic, is that an awful lot of the ruling class believed the only people who should have the right to decide what would happen would be those who owned property. That’s why the compromise position turned out to be that all men free, white and 21 could take part in electing representatives who would then determine the stuff that really mattered.
So 80 percent of Americans support legitimate restrictions on gun ownership?
Doesn’t matter.
So two-thirds of Americans support the idea of keeping Roe v Wade the law of the land?
Tough titty.
If we allow the majority to make decisions, they will vote to take rich people’s money away and waste it on themselves.
We certainly can’t allow that.
How do rich people know this is what would happen?
Well, duh.
It’s what they do.
They are nice enough to give you beer, football and porn to make you forget what they’re doing to you.
So stop complaining.
Vaseline is expensive.