'In a Democracy'

Dear Editor,

Twenty-one years ago, I wrote an opinion in the Politics & Human Rights section of a now defunct website, “Loretta’s Lounge, under the pseudonym JT8D. I titled the piece “In a Democracy.” I republish it now because too many Americans are confused about what form of government our founders created, due in no small part to the lies propagated by the mainstream American media …

Liberals – or more pointedly, Marxists – must be celebrating their victory over our American legacy. This I contend … for reason that Americans no longer seem to make the very important political distinction between the terms “democracy” and “republic.”

A “democracy” is a government where men’s passions have free reign, unchecked by the Rule of Law; to wit, the political legitimization of mob rule. Democracies invariably are born in bloodshed and chaos – they end beneath the same specter. Conversely, republics are not so prone to the passions of the people; for the republic establishes itself so that all men are equal beneath the Rule of Law.

The United States of America is a Constitutional Representative Republic – a union of independent sovereign states, operating within the framework of a federal constitution. Our Constitution sets, by Law, limits upon the exercise of federal power, and establishes the legal devices by which to check the unbridled passions of mortal men – those who occupy the positions through which that power is exercised.

With each instance that we Americans, as citizens of this republic, fail to boldly refute the assertion that America is a “democracy,” we surrender before the world our sovereign claim as free men.

When we fail to notice that there is a concerted movement – not only from abroad but from within – to bring us into a global collective of communism, then we do America great harm. We disenfranchise ourselves from being the rightful heirs to those unalienable rights that are ordained solely by God.

When we allow any entity to define us as a “democracy,” we make good on the revocation of what is so eloquently enumerated within the Declaration of Independence; ergo, we effect a betrayal of the protection of those rights guaranteed in Law by the Constitution.

We ought soberly remember the terrible sacrifices made by those who went before us, whenever we fail to correct our leaders, the media, and the establishment elite, at each instance they attempt to obfuscate our heritage or otherwise confuse our national political lexicon.

Being Americans we must do no less, if we desire to remain a free people.

Bruce Desautels

Stratton, Nebraska

16 January 2022 (Originally published 27 November 2000)