Misleading America the Easy Way

I am often amused at the Lame Stream Media’s insistence on bestowing titles on people. To cite a few examples: “Former Panamanian Strong man”: Manuel Noriega, “Academy Award winner” Jodi Foster, “Right wing conservative talk show host” Rush Limbaugh and former “senate majority leader Democratic Senator” Harry Reed.  True they are all designed to skew your perceptions of a person before you hear their name and all fairly accurate except for the last one.

What exactly is inaccurate about “Former Senate Majority Leader, Democratic Senator” Harry Reed?  He was the senate majority leader but isn’t anymore so the former part is accurate. In a sense he is a democratic senator, but all members of both houses are democratic only some are actually DEMOCRATS, the rest are Republicans or Independent.

Simply put democrat is a noun describing a person, place or thing. Democratic is a verb denoting action. Both houses operate in a democratic manner, limited by the Constitution, following Roberts Rules of Order and strict Parliamentary procedures.  The democrats have conveniently pushed the vernacular toward the use of “democratic” or "progressive" to subliminally suggest, to the less informed, to expect more compassion from a “democratic” or "progressive" person. After all who could be against progress? Much in the converse way soldiers in Vietnam referred to the Vietcong as “gook” or “slope” to dehumanize them as an enemy and ease their own consciences.

It is a clever strategy and used by both sides of the aisle. The term “liberal” has bee dropped from conversation and replaced by “democratic” or "progressive," as I have previously pointed out. But more unsettling is the misnomer of our system of government. The democrats have very cleverly drilled into young students for 40 years that we are a Democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact at the inception of our great nation to call someone a democrat was an insult and often gave way to fisticuffs and in one case a fatal duel. See Burr-Hamilton duel.

If we aren’t a democracy then what are we? America is a Constitutional Republic. In our particular case our Constitution does not bestow rights to the people, it limits the government from violating our natural rights, “granted by our Creator” in the words of the Preamble.  Unlimited government is simply a dictatorship or monarchy, exactly what we fought the Revolution over. There are also similar systems where an elite few govern the many under the misconception that the many are too stupid to govern themselves, sort of what we have deteriorated to here today. The labels for those sort of systems are Nazi, Communist, Progressive and Socialist. They are both right and left wing of the same one way street. Our Constitution is limited from creating a one way street, pesky old thing that it is.

Lastly let me approach democracy, the worst form of government of all. A democracy is a simple majority rule vote. No constitutional protections, no senate, no house, no representation of any kind, no president, nothing, simple majority. That is to say, as the only lamb in a room full of wolves and there’s a “what’s for dinner?” vote, guess who’s for dinner. Simple majority, no recourse, no Supreme Court, just dinner.