Pure Democracy

There are two kinds of pure democracy.

The bad kind is mob rule, headed by a dictator or demagogue, through which institutional-living, group-living, herd mentality, groupthink and only the interests of the ruling majority are met.

Sans the individuation theory, this kind of pure democracy was the wicked, dangerous, barbaric, savage kind repudiated by the Founding Fathers. They did not believe that we were basically good, so centralized power ineluctably corrupts the wielder of amassed power, be it Congress, the federal bureaucracy, a king, the President, a dictator, the pope or the majority mob running things.

Without government, these bad, pure democrats would live in a most uncivil society where life was lawless, savage, brutal and short, where the strong would live off of and devour the weak. But, to be effective and protect liberty, federal government must be a constitutional republic, with all kinds of checks and balances, keeping power separated and controlled by competing but cooperating factions, branches of governments and vying interests.

Where these checks and balances break down, or are set aside--for example by Leftists and Libertarians promoting direct Presidential elections by discarding the Electoral College--then government becomes the engine of totalitarian tyranny against the populace now that its centralized power is used against the people that it was meant to protect and serve. Rather than promote and guarantee the liberty of individual citizens pursuing life, liberty, property and happiness under the avuncular benevolence of a constitutional republic like ours originally was, the Leviathan state turns on its people, coercing them, enslaving them, tyrannizing them, terrorizing them and living off of them, controlling their lives down to the most trivial aspects of everyday living.

Here is where my Mavellonialist political theory kicks in: let us grant that the Founding Fathers were right, that people were more beast than angel, thereby requiring all agree to construct and live under a social contract with laws and rules so that people could live orderly, free, productive, lawful lives, without fear of lawless, predatory neighbors attacking and robbing them. Government, of a certain limited size, founded as a republic that allows leaders to rule lawfully as directed and limited under a ratified Constitution, is a benefit to all citizens, guaranteeing liberty and unfettered opportunity to live one's life as one will, even amassing wealth and property in a free market economy.

Government, beyond moderate limits set up by the wise, moderate Founders, grows in centralized power, wealth, size, scope, reach and power-lust. As the Leviathan grows, those running it become completely corrupt. There is only so much power to be had. It is an inverse proportion. As Prager warned long ago, the bigger the government, the smaller the individual. The excessive size of government deprives citizens of their power, their wealth, their liberty and even, eventually, in the final stages of decline, even their lives. To sum up, the Founder accepted that government of a certain size was beneficial, ever contributing to civilized, free, prosperous living conditions for its citizens.

When government grows beyond its constitutionally defined limits, as it has in America for the last 100 years or more, that bloated government lives off of its people, and tyrannizes, oppresses and exploits them.  That wicked government and its vicious corrupt rulers deserve and must be overthrown for their power-lust sickened the whole body politics, depriving all of life, liberty, property and happiness, as each deserves to enjoy, enjoyed as only she chooses to enjoy it.

Now, let me turn to the positive, pure democracy that will one day come about. It would require unfettering all the constitutional protections to protect our citizens against the abuses of centralized powers that always corrupts any wielder of the power, no matter noble were his initial intentions.

Before, good, pure democracy can be initiated, citizens must be well-brought up and well-trained as individuating, virtuous supercitizens to make such a most civil society function, survive and not descend into bad anarchy and Venezuelan collapse and chaos.

A middle class of millions of individuating anarchist supercitizens would not institutional-live, not group-live, not turn socialist and not follow Satan. They would good anarchist-live, individual-live, profit-acquire and follow God.

These supercitizens, as average voters, could and should exercise the vote of pure democracy on many matters because they are so personally powerful, indomitable and unable to be coerced or subjugated by a tyrant. As each is a wielder of real, substantial, impressive if limited power in the political, cultural and economic spheres, they will disallow other citizens, proud, decisive, powerful and independent in their own lives as power-wielders, that the checks and balances so introduced and in need of being maintained--as planned by the Founding Fathers--would automatically, directly and indirectly keep a rough equality among the citizens, with few attempts at power-amassing occurring and even fewer such attempts standing a chance to succeed.

A society of individuated, deeply politically engaged and active participants in running public affairs would be a society of principled, logical, honorable, rational, restrained and wise citizens that would work together to cobble together laws and guidelines that would protect the private good in such a way as to advance the public good, without growing government beyond its right size, without getting rid of Constitutional checks on concentrated power movements, without sacrficing private or public virtue or reputation to keep the government operating and being effective.

This pure democracy is the only one that would ever work. For now, let us abide by the brilliant and humane checks and balances built into our Constitution. Leave the Electoral College in place. We do not want the bullying millions of socialists, here legally and illegally, from New York, Illinois, California, New Jersey and Washington state ending America as we know it. We need terms limits. We need no immigration for now, and very closed, tight borders until we get things right here. We need 2 US Senators per state elected or appointed from each state legislature. We need two senators per state. We need to balance the budget, pay off the public debt, severely downsize government and knock the junta running the courts down to size by limiting their legislating, their power-grabbing and their lifetime appointments.