Sgt Staples
Mayor
I know Democrats and Liberals prefer Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto ideology, but myself, I side with folks such as this great philosopher, because history has shown what Marxism leads to and what dangers await in a Democracy, and what makes it really insightful is that he wrote it before it happened in America and before the parties consisted of big powerful central government Rino Republicans and Marxist Democrats.
Obama's administration is practicing "Tyranny of the Majority" to a degree not hitherto seen.
His class warfare, his giveaway programs that are paid for by a shrinking minority who have to support themselves their own families, the welfare state, and all the rest..
The Tea Party, so hated by the Marxist Left the Democrat Party and their slavish media allies, is trying to fight this growing tyranny and return to 1st principles.
"The Tyranny of the Majority" - from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America."
Note: I took the liberty of editing to only those paragraphs that I find relevant to the subject.
I also italicized certain words and phrases that I find important to the discussion.
de Tocqueville's book is available at most public libraries if you are interested in doing further research or reading.
>>>Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing; human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion, and God alone can be omnipotent, because His wisdom and His justice are always equal to His power.
But no power upon earth is so worthy of honor for itself, or of reverential obedience to the rights which it represents, that I would consent to admit its uncontrolled and all-predominant authority. When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on a people or upon a king, upon an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I recognize the germ of tyranny, and I journey onward to a land of more hopeful institutions.<<<
>>>When an individual or a party is wronged, to whom can he apply for redress? If to public opinion, public opinion constitutes the majority; if to the legislature, it represents the majority, and implicitly obeys its injunctions; if to the executive power, it is appointed by the majority, and remains a passive tool in its hands; the public troops consist of the majority under arms; the jury is the majority invested with the right of hearing judicial cases; and in certain States even the judges are elected by the majority. However iniquitous or absurd the evil of which you complain may be, you must submit to it as well as you can. <<<<
>>>I do not say that tyrannical abuses frequently occur in America at the present day, but I maintain that no sure barrier is established against them, and that the causes which mitigate the government are to be found in the circumstances and the manners of the country more than in its laws. <<<
Here he quotes Hamilton in the Federalist Papers.
>>>"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Justice is the end of government.<<<
The tyranny of the Legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period." <<<
In other books and in other sections of this book, de Toqueville proposes solutions to these problems.
Obama's administration is practicing "Tyranny of the Majority" to a degree not hitherto seen.
His class warfare, his giveaway programs that are paid for by a shrinking minority who have to support themselves their own families, the welfare state, and all the rest..
The Tea Party, so hated by the Marxist Left the Democrat Party and their slavish media allies, is trying to fight this growing tyranny and return to 1st principles.
"The Tyranny of the Majority" - from Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America."
Note: I took the liberty of editing to only those paragraphs that I find relevant to the subject.
I also italicized certain words and phrases that I find important to the discussion.
de Tocqueville's book is available at most public libraries if you are interested in doing further research or reading.
>>>Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing; human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion, and God alone can be omnipotent, because His wisdom and His justice are always equal to His power.
But no power upon earth is so worthy of honor for itself, or of reverential obedience to the rights which it represents, that I would consent to admit its uncontrolled and all-predominant authority. When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on a people or upon a king, upon an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I recognize the germ of tyranny, and I journey onward to a land of more hopeful institutions.<<<
>>>When an individual or a party is wronged, to whom can he apply for redress? If to public opinion, public opinion constitutes the majority; if to the legislature, it represents the majority, and implicitly obeys its injunctions; if to the executive power, it is appointed by the majority, and remains a passive tool in its hands; the public troops consist of the majority under arms; the jury is the majority invested with the right of hearing judicial cases; and in certain States even the judges are elected by the majority. However iniquitous or absurd the evil of which you complain may be, you must submit to it as well as you can. <<<<
>>>I do not say that tyrannical abuses frequently occur in America at the present day, but I maintain that no sure barrier is established against them, and that the causes which mitigate the government are to be found in the circumstances and the manners of the country more than in its laws. <<<
Here he quotes Hamilton in the Federalist Papers.
>>>"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Justice is the end of government.<<<
The tyranny of the Legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period." <<<
In other books and in other sections of this book, de Toqueville proposes solutions to these problems.
