“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure of the mischief of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contentions; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in the deaths.

“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” Publius

Americans, our congressmen and legislators, are fond of using the term democracy. Ask anyone what our form of government is, and they will answer that we are a democracy. But, of course, our founding fathers did not create a democracy and for very good reasons.

One might characterize a Democracy as mob rule and a Republic as the rule of law. People might use the term democracy because it is a connotation that makes them believe they are somehow in control of the system. But democracy oppresses initiative, incentive, and lends itself to a socialist perspective in which excellence is lost. On the other hand, what does one do when our leaders try to change the fabric of America? What does one do when factions seek the demise of public faith? What does one do when one’s government spends what we do not have? What does one do when one realizes that nearly 70% of every dollar one makes is taxed? What does one do when one acts and then finds oneself on the government’s list of radical, rightwing extremists? They who seek to bring America back to its roots are suddenly seen as a danger to America.

Our liberal courts have taken the rule of law into their own hands, adjudicating them as they see fit. We have also given the vote to everyone reaching the age of 18. While this gives many a feeling of fairness, it also includes many who do not pay taxes, own no property, and have little at stake. Furthermore, it allows those among us to vote who have no idea what they are voting for, or they may vote simply as a matter of loyalty to a culture or race. It reduces America to its lowest common denominator where the likes of Hollywood decadence is equated to the best America has to offer, and the votes of a self-indulgent society continues to allow it.

Factions try to dominate our society and influence the rule of law. A leading example is homosexuals who have goaded many states into instituting same sex marriage. One might extrapolate that in years to come to some states allowing bestiality, sex with children, or the prosecution of child pornographers as usurping the first amendment.

Again, the very freedom that we guard so vehemently might be our undoing. The adulteration of American law has become, while laughable, one of fierce contention as it strays from the Constitution and undermines the foundations of a reasonable and prudent society.

Is the grass roots uprising of the so called “silent majority” as part of the Tea Party protests an indication that those who feel disenfranchised are ready to revolt? Is an intellectual revolution at hand? If the “anointed one” continues to appease and praise the likes of Hugo Chavez, it may become more than just intellectual. It may stoop to become a democracy or an overture to anarchy. Is there really any difference?

“[T]he powers proposed to be lodged in the federal government are as little formidable to those reserved to the individual States as they are indispensably necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Union; and that all those alarms which have been sounded of a meditated and consequential annihilation of the State governments must, on the most favorable interpretation, be ascribed to the chimerical fears of the authors of them.” Publius

As the newly drawn Constitution was being considered for ratification by the various States, some patriots were wary of the broad powers of the proposed federal government. They were troubled by the prospect that the federal government would become a leviathan that swallows up individual rights of citizens and powers reserved to the States. Publius (James Madison) not only reminded, but emphasized to, his fellow citizens that the central government would be endowed with only those powers “indispensably necessary to accomplish the purposes of the Union . . . .”

Could it be that Publius was mistaken? Perhaps this is an instance when he was too optimistic about, and held too resolutely to, his conviction that Americans, even those 200 years into the future, would vigilantly safeguard their liberties. Look what has happened since his assurances were given. The federal government has intruded into virtually every aspect of our lives! Ask the farmer. Ask the businessman. Ask health care providers. Ask professional athletes. Ask students of the Supreme Court. Ask those who are assessing the official actions of Mr. Obama on a daily basis.

Yes, our federal government is out of control. It is nothing but a parasitic behemoth that has annihilated State and local decision-making. Our hard-earned tax dollars are being consumed by the most profligate spending in the history of this republic. This is FACT.

The real question is how we the people reign in these sorry excesses. We must begin to organize in village after village, city after city, and State after State. Tea parties are an excellent beginning! We must make sure that Mr. Obama and his minions hear our voices. We must let him know that it will not do for him to blame the current financial crisis on George W. Bush, when Democrats have controlled Congress since 2006 and Obama’s spending proposals are the most outrageous in history. What will it take to impress upon him that ceding ever-increasing power and authority to the federal government is contrary to the balanced system of national, State, and local government that our founders bequeathed to us?

At first, we must attempt to reason. That, however, will fail, because tyrants are never reasonable. Then what? Patrick Henry’s words come to mind, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Should we internalize these words as merely an empty burst of flashy rhetoric, or as a choice forever before us?

“The celebrated Pericles, in compliance with the resentment of a prostitute, at the expense of much of the blood and treasure of his countrymen, attacked, vanquished, and destroyed the city of the Samnians. The same man, stimulated by private pique against the Megarensians, another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threatened as an accomplice in a supposed theft of the statuary Phidias, or to get rid of the accusations prepared to be brought against him for dissipating the funds of the state in the purchase of popularity, or from a combination of all these causes, was the primitive author of that famous and fatal war, distinguished in the Grecian annals by the name of the Peloponnesian war; which, after various vicissitudes, intermissions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth.” PUBLIUS

There are those who say that the words of our founding fathers are out of date and irrelevant. There are others who argue that, though that may be true, human nature remains constant. Powerful figures of today and of the past understand that the masses are irrelevant. They understand, as did Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and their ilk, that promises made with a smiling face and the presence of conviction draws people into the fold. It is easy to point out where the problems lay. It is the farmers or the wealthy or the entrepreneurs or the shopkeepers. And it is easy to denigrate and hate them as sources of a country’s ills. It is easy to wish the rich to be poorer and the poor to be richer.

And with these promises, the masses remain in denial. Surely it cannot happen here, even as we spend our way into poverty. In pre war Germany, it is said, it would take a wheelbarrow full of money to purchase bread. And then came restrictions on every facet of the individual’s movements. Until, finally, tyranny.

Seeing the writing on the wall, banks try to return the money. The restrictions riding on the backs of the stimulus package are more than they had bargained for. The masses, however, see handouts and payback to the rich CEO’s who make more money than they are entitled to. The wealthy are too wealthy and the poor are too poor. And so they wish for the rich to be as poor as they. But more to their liking is that the rich give to the poor. And with such promise comes popularity, re-election, and power.

Eighty Eight percent of Americans believe that Jesus walked the earth. Eight two percent of them believe that he was the Son of God, died, and was resurrected. Yet to appease our enemies the leader of the free world will tell them that America is not a Christian nation. He will tell them that we are simply a nation of similar ideals and values, while leading atheists denigrate those values under which they have prospered.

And he will bow to kings.

"With equal pleasure I have a often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principle of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence." PUBLIUS

And so to this new republic came the world, attracted by her properity, her promise, and her liberty. And they soon came to understand that freedom is not sustained without sacrifice. That it is more important than the safety of her citizens. The government is pulled by factions bent on the destruction of freedom, well intentioned though some regulations and restrictions might be. And so our freedom has dwindled in proportion to our fears. And so too has our resolve to unity.

"With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence." PUBLIUS

And yet, in future, we will welcome to her shores all who come to participate in a freedom that will become our own undoing. Our media will establish a politically correct mindset so difficult to penetrate that what we were will slowly die.

The world will scramble to partake of her prosperity and ask her to change her fabric to suit their 13th century values. We will contemplate Sharia law, cater to other languages, and allow our beloved country to become embroiled in the same political and religious undoing as Denmark, France, and England.

We will undermine the foundation that our founding fathers and those who came before us built and died for. Because we are afraid of world opinion, we will apologise for being the most philanthropic and generous nation on earth. We will apologise for defending people who cannot defend themselves. We will apologise because we are strong and properous and free.

We will praise our freedom as we watch it pulled from under us. We will sacrifice our freedom for safety. And our silent majority will become irrelevent. We will embrace liberal ideology, socialist economic values, relativistic irresponsibility, and give to those who break our laws the benefit of what they have not earned.

We will come far from what we were and dreamed we would be. Through greed and the pressure of activists our economy will falter, unions will ask for what we do not have, companies will die, and small businesses will follow suit. Taxes will break the back of Americans as it breaks her banking system. We will spend what we do not have in an effort to fund what should not be.

And the factions among us will continue to shout that their God can kick your God's ass.