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Mike McDaniel, writing about “Look at Me” Liz Cheney, lays out some very harsh truth about Democrats and their vision of “democracy“
One thing D/S/Cs have unquestionably mastered is deception through theft of the language. Thus are they always seeking just the right “messaging,” which is best described as “the right words to trick the rubes.” As with all else, they do this in lockstep. Their policies cannot possibly be wrong, so when they are, it must be faulty messaging, among other things. The newest phrase or pronoun is disseminated, and they all use it. Thus they, with very few exceptions, always speak of America as a “democracy” or “our democracy,” never as the constitutional, representative republic it is. Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution states in part:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…
This is not semantic nitpicking—far from it. The “democracy” of which they speak, which they desperately want, is a form of democracy: a tyranny of the majority, in which 50.000001% of the people exercise absolute power. They can deprive the minority of property, liberty, even life. It’s a dictatorship, but with at least one more or less honest election. Thereafter, the majority will hold elections in the style of Russia, Iran, North Korea or China, and their majority will only, inexorably, increase.
This is precisely the kind of government the Founders rejected in the Constitution, because they knew it for what it is. This is why we have a representative republic, as Benjamin Franklin said “if you can keep it.” When D/S/Cs–and I include Liz Cheney among them because she has placed herself among them and labored for their cause—speak of “our democracy,” rather than “our republic,” they’re not merely exercising variety in terms. They mean it, and Cheney virtually always speaks of “our democracy.”
Go read the whole piece, but I really wanted to accentuate that portion of McDaniel’s piece. The terms “democracy” has virtually replaced “republic” in the lexicon of the media, among politicians, and it is dangerous, because there is a huge difference between the two forms of government.
Now, go read the rest of McDaniel’s piece, great stuff
