Democracy is opportunists herding the gullible, the afraid, the parasites, the destroyers, the lazy, etc into a criminal coalition to rob the makers. The prince of this world is really pro at this.
Personally I don't let democrats define democracy any more than I let medical doctors (i.e., drug pushers) define immunity, or transvestites define gender. In fact left-wing extremists twist definitions like they twist genders.
Democracy is from the Greek demos ("people") + kratos ("power"). I know others use different definitions that anger them (it's a Republic ALSO, not instead) but I use the original definition of democracy, which goes "a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives".
That's American democracy as far as I'm concerned. I'm damn sure not ceding it to demon rats or their drooling, hate-filled, brainwashed voters. THEY are the threat to democracy, as Trump says—and he is the defender of it. Long may it live and inspire other societies to rise.
Using their own terminology against them and reclaiming real democracy for the side that actually cares about it, is what Trump is doing.
In the Athenian democracy the people that could vote were QUITE well educated. Male citizens (landowners) could vote. They were also the ones who would go fight the wars and had to pay for their armor & weapons. So they had money and time (they had slaves to do the actual labor).
They still voted for opportunists & retards which eventually destroyed the Athenian state by losing the Peloponnesian War. Especially the massive imperial overreach of the Sicilian Campaign which basically did them in.
So yea, he lived through that and saw the effect. What he failed to mention, or did not observe, was that Athens had been seriously corrupted by money which was extracted by them being an empire.
Funnily enough, during the Peloponnesian war and the eventual defeat of Athens, Lysander re-introduced GOLD to Sparta. Ever since Lycurgus' original laws, Spartans did not use gold to trade, they used coal or iron, because Lycurgus thought gold would corrupt them.
Lysander reintroduced it so as to pay the Persians to give him a fleet to defeat Athens. Then, 60 years after that Spartans basically became debauched & corrupted by gold so they lost their hegemony to the Thebans.
Fun stuff. In other words, all the 'modern' stuff we observe has happened before.
Remember that the prosperity bright by hard men led to indolent progeny who were easily distracted by hedonism and the other -isms of a pagan world and they grew to be soft men, etc
This is why they want us dumbed down.
Correct.
Nope... Democracy is 51% standing on the throat of 49% and they want the ever shrinking 49 % not to complain.
Democracy is opportunists herding the gullible, the afraid, the parasites, the destroyers, the lazy, etc into a criminal coalition to rob the makers. The prince of this world is really pro at this.
Well put. But would equally apply to all other tyrants.
Freedom is as far as we have climbed.....so far.
Critical thinking and well educated people are needed and in very short supply. We need education, not indoctrination.
Personally I don't let democrats define democracy any more than I let medical doctors (i.e., drug pushers) define immunity, or transvestites define gender. In fact left-wing extremists twist definitions like they twist genders.
Democracy is from the Greek demos ("people") + kratos ("power"). I know others use different definitions that anger them (it's a Republic ALSO, not instead) but I use the original definition of democracy, which goes "a system of government in which power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or through freely elected representatives".
That's American democracy as far as I'm concerned. I'm damn sure not ceding it to demon rats or their drooling, hate-filled, brainwashed voters. THEY are the threat to democracy, as Trump says—and he is the defender of it. Long may it live and inspire other societies to rise.
Using their own terminology against them and reclaiming real democracy for the side that actually cares about it, is what Trump is doing.
https://x.com/Culture_Crit/status/1793268613807276300
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1793268613807276300.html
In the Athenian democracy the people that could vote were QUITE well educated. Male citizens (landowners) could vote. They were also the ones who would go fight the wars and had to pay for their armor & weapons. So they had money and time (they had slaves to do the actual labor).
They still voted for opportunists & retards which eventually destroyed the Athenian state by losing the Peloponnesian War. Especially the massive imperial overreach of the Sicilian Campaign which basically did them in.
So yea, he lived through that and saw the effect. What he failed to mention, or did not observe, was that Athens had been seriously corrupted by money which was extracted by them being an empire.
Funnily enough, during the Peloponnesian war and the eventual defeat of Athens, Lysander re-introduced GOLD to Sparta. Ever since Lycurgus' original laws, Spartans did not use gold to trade, they used coal or iron, because Lycurgus thought gold would corrupt them.
Lysander reintroduced it so as to pay the Persians to give him a fleet to defeat Athens. Then, 60 years after that Spartans basically became debauched & corrupted by gold so they lost their hegemony to the Thebans.
Fun stuff. In other words, all the 'modern' stuff we observe has happened before.
Remember that the prosperity bright by hard men led to indolent progeny who were easily distracted by hedonism and the other -isms of a pagan world and they grew to be soft men, etc
Thank you for these informations. Yes. History repeats itself.
Good read, thank you fren... Cheers... ☕️☕️☕️
Thank you, you are welcome. It is really nice for sharing with others and especially for kids and teenagers.
This is indeed an excellent read and just enough to make one want more. Thank you for sharing it.
Praise God for raising such great men.
How wrong he was.