I'd be glad to do that. The number one point I'd like to bring up is the distinction between democracy and liberty. Most people in the United States think they are the same thing. They're dead wrong. Democracy means Majority Rule – whatever the majority votes for, it gets. If the majority votes to enslave the minority, or plunder the minority (which is currently being done through the Welfare State) then it will happen. Might makes right. Whatever most people say goes. There's no law above what the consensus happens to be at any given moment. This is why I detest dem… Read moreocracy – it enslaves the minority. And the people who are participating in it, are totally uneducated and lack in many cases basic morality. As Founding Father George Mason said, "It would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief Magistrate to the people, as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind men. The extent of the Country renders it impossible that the people can have the requisite capacity to judge of the respective pretensions of the Candidates."
"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right." – Alexander Hamilton
"Democracies have ever been the spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." – James Madison
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be." – Thomas Jefferson
Our Founders were resolutely against democracy, so they imposed property qualifications for voting and believed only those of civic and moral virtue should vote – back then you had to be 25 years old, by financially independent, have a good knowledge of politics and government, and attend a Christian church (didn't matter which denomination) to vote. I agree with all that. When God created us, he gave us rights to life, liberty, and property. He did not give us a right to vote, that is an artificial privilege granted to us by our government. No true "right" is granted by government. No true "right" entitles you to anything. All true rights do is protect you from harm. A right to life just means no one can lawfully kill you. A right to liberty means no one can lawfully enslave you or use force to make you do his will. A right to property means no one may steal or deface or confiscate, or tax, or regulate, or in any way infringe or encroach upon your belongings, holdings, and possessions. Voting privileges are not meant to protect you from aggression, as true rights necessarily are meant to – they are meant to allow you to participate in politics, which is the business of using aggression on others and plundering their money through taxation.
What do I support instead? I support liberty, which means that the government is limited only to the police, courts, and military, in order to defend against foreign invasions, punish crimes against life, liberty, and property, enforce contracts, and create a system of property titles and deeds. That's what liberty is. I don't care at all what the political structure of such a society would be – if it was a monarchy, that did nothing but provide police, courts, and military, I'd love it. If it was an aristocracy, that did nothing but provide police, courts, and military, I'd love it. If it was a Republic that did nothing but provide police, courts, and military, I'd love it. But a democracy it could not be – because democracy necessarily means executing the will of the people whatever that may be. And I do not think the people would be willing very long to just have police courts and military. Hope that helped you.
