Democracy Is Under Threat
When the Americans proposed to establish a government of, by, and for the people, the old European monarchies laughed at the absurdity...
A century and a quarter later, America had clearly revealed itself as the superior and most magnificent society and system on planet Earth...
In the grand sweep of time, however, the notion of large societies ruled not by autocrats and elites but by people, occupies only a tiny sliver of history. It is our history and our time, so it appears distorted and permanent to us today. It’s not. It’s actually fragile and could fail. That’s the actual lesson of history...
You have to look closely at the laws and regulations but eventually you find that many so-called blue states like California have found ways to give illegal aliens the right to vote in national elections...
The U.S. system was fundamentally distorted by the 17th Amendment, which changed the Senate from being a body to represent whole states of the union to one that mostly reflects the politics of big cities...
More and more, I’m seeing podcasts and public intellectuals look to the system in China, a one-party dictatorship, as the best path for any society...
The rise of the socialist movement in the United States barely hides its lust for dictatorial power. The lessons of history mean nothing to these people... these candidates and pundits are all backed by powerful foundations and hidden corporate interests...
It’s more fragile than we think. If the machinations continue, we could lose it all...