Answer
instead of the majority enslaving the minority by brute force (democracy), all are enslaved by an oligarchy. Poetic justice?
Explanation:
In a representative democracy people hope the winner will represent them. But how, what is the unspoken method, the political system that will be used? Itâs not a system that is based on rights or reason. It employs the initiation of violence, threats, fraud. Rights are sacrificed to the will of the majority, i.e., the âcommon goodâ or so we are told. If that were true, it would be enough to reject democracy as mob rule but it isnât true. However, itâs just as bad because the politics of violence is still the paradigm. It serves those in power, not the people who put them there, i.e., the frauds and front people for âthe powers that beâ (TPTB). When individual rights are not the primary goal, the basis, the axiom of government, no one is safe, no âcommon goodâ is possible. This was the new political paradigm that Jefferson used to justify the Declaration of Independence. It convinced the Founding Fathers to risk âour lives, our propertyâ and fight against the most powerful empire in the world. They gave us a new political paradigm and it was not threatened by The Articles of Confederation, which had 14 American presidents. Then came the counter-American bloodless political coup, the Constitution. It replaced America with the U.S.A., a strong centralized government. The sovereign states versus the sovereign federal gov was a conflict that Lincoln settled and explained in the âGettysburg Addressâ. He valued âThe Unionâ over its parts. Of course, this is not how historians justify the death of a million Americans.
