August 1, 2025 • 24 mins
On today's episode, we'll debunk the most sacred lie of liberalism – democracy itself.
In under 30 minutes, you'll learn:
- Why democracy and liberty are incompatible
- Why the Founders had nothing but contempt for democracy and those who supported it
- Democracy is mob rule, and no better than monarchy
- Democracy is nihilistic and morally lawless and cannot exist in a free society
- Any government – democracy, monarchy, or aristocracy – is only legitimate when it submits to higher moral laws
- All governments must be subordinated to religious and moral truth – regardless of what the majority demands
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The Conservative Rebel (00:00):
Last week, we debunked the liberal
lie that liberty is doingwhatever you want, whenever you
want, without accountability orconsequences.
We defined liberty as the rightto do what you ought, not the
right to do anything you want.
Now that we know what libertytruly is, we can refute one of
(00:24):
the most holy and sacred lies ofliberalism.
The lie of democracy.
Most Americans, regardless ofwhether they consider themselves
(00:46):
conservative or liberal, havebeen indoctrinated into the
belief that liberty anddemocracy are the exact same
thing.
More democracy always meansmore freedom, and less democracy
always means less freedom.
(01:07):
And not only are we told this,we're also told that America's
entire national identity, itshistory, its culture, everything
you can think of about it, isbased on on abstract liberal
ideas of equality and democracythat our country was allegedly
(01:31):
founded on in 1776.
When you hear dumb people say,America is an idea, this is what
they mean.
America itself is democracy.
America itself is equality.
In short, America isliberalism.
(01:52):
So anyone who ever dares toquestion democracy or
egalitarianism or any of theseother principles is far more
than just a radical withunfashionable ideas.
He's a heretic who'sblaspheming the state religion.
He's a traitor who's deeplydisloyal to the United States
(02:18):
and everything it stands for.
Of course, now that much of theleft has completely abandoned
liberalism and embraced Marxism,in other words, now that their
focus has shifted from radicallychanging our nation to
deliberately destroying it, theydon't claim America was founded
(02:41):
on democracy and equalityanymore.
Instead, they switched to anarrative that's just as stupid,
which is that America wassettled by genocidal
supervillains who founded thecountry on mean things like
bigotry and slavery and misogynyand a million other spooky,
(03:04):
scary words that end with theletter Y that send chills up
liberal grandma's spines if youwhisper them in an eerie voice
on Halloween.
But that's a very fringe viewthat I don't think most people
really buy into, and I know fora fact zero people in my
audience buy into.
By far, the dominant view isthe democratic-slash-egalitarian
(03:30):
one.
We've all heard this pagancreation myth in school.
We all know the comic bookversion of American history,
where the founders werestarry-eyed liberal romantics on
some ideological crusadeagainst the evils of monarchy
(03:51):
and aristocracy.
They wanted to overturn the oldway of doing things and usher
in a new, enlightened age.
Most Americans emerge from thepublic school system convinced
that the founders started ourcountry as some experiment in
(04:13):
democracy, quote-unquote,dedicated to equality, popular
government, good vibes, and rockand roll.
Just like that one tall beardedskinny guy in the top hat said
that one time in that one speechafter that one big battle.
But if America was founded ondemocracy, someone must have
(04:37):
forgotten to tell the founders.
Here's what John Adams had tosay about this sacred American
principle.
Remember democracy never lastslong.
It soon wastes, exhausts, andmurders itself.
And Adams wasn't the only one.
(05:00):
Benjamin Rush, a famous signerof the Declaration of
Independence, called democracythe devil's own government.
Benjamin Franklin said,democracy is two wolves and a
lamb voting on what to have forsupper.
James Madison calleddemocracies spectacles of
(05:23):
turbulence and contention thatwere as short in their lives as
they have been violent in theirdeaths.
Alexander Hamilton calleddemocracy the most vile form of
government.
He said, "...the people areturbulent and changing.
(05:44):
They seldom judge or determineright." And I could go on and on
and on for hours with FoundingFathers quotes condemning
democracy.
In my famous mercy andcompassion, I won't subject you
to that, but I could if I wantedto.
(06:05):
But this should be enough foreveryone to get the point.
The Founders had nothing butcontempt for democracy and for
those who supported it.
The founders disagreed on a lotof things, but one of the
things they all agreed on wasthat democracy is stupid and
(06:27):
most people are unfit to have asay in how the American
government goes.
If Washington or Madison orHamilton were still alive today,
both conservatives and liberalswould accuse them of being
traitors to the American ideal.
(06:48):
Why were they so againstdemocracy?
Because they understood thatdemocracy is not the rule of the
people, whatever that'ssupposed to mean.
Democracy is the rule of themob.
Democracy is groupthink.
(07:09):
Democracy is anarchy.
Proponents of democracy alwayslike to claim that democracy is
rule of the people, by thepeople, for the people.
The people alone are sovereign.
Every decision must be madewith the people's permission,
(07:30):
for the benefit of the people.
We the people, people this,people that, people, people,
people.
So most Americans willimmediately think democracy must
be good and noble and they'llaccept it at face value.
There are two reasons that thisdoesn't convince me.
(07:50):
The first reason is the wordpeople.
As an anti-social hermit, Ishudder in terror at the very
mention of those strangecreatures known as people.
When I hear all this peopletalk, it doesn't make me like
democracy.
It makes me want to run awayfrom civilization, ripping my
(08:13):
hair out and howling, anddisappear into the jungle to
live in a cave and subsist onmaggots and earthworms until I
die.
And by until I die, I meanuntil the search and rescue crew
comes in with their helicopterand forcibly hauls my emaciated
carcass, kicking and screaming,back to civilization.
(08:35):
Ask any one of the three peoplewho know me, and they'll
confirm that this has happenedmultiple times.
So the first reason I'm notconvinced is the word people.
The second reason is also theword people.
Because that word is neverdefined.
It's nothing more than auseless abstraction.
(08:58):
What do you mean, the people?
Do you mean every single personmust agree to any decision
that's ever made?
Clearly you don't mean that.
So what do you mean?
You mean the majority ofpeople.
You mean the mob.
(09:19):
You mean might makes right.
You're a nihilist.
Democracy means that if you canget more than 50% of people to
support anything under the sun,they should get it and to hell
with anyone who disagrees andwhat anyone else thinks about
(09:42):
it.
I'm sorry, that's just what itis.
You can say that monarchies oraristocracies or any other form
of government is barbaric andbackwards, and you might be
right, but there's nothing morecrude, animalistic, and
unenlightened than uncheckedmajority rule.
(10:05):
This is groupthink.
This is a herd mentality.
This is again a fundamentallynihilistic and lawless system.
This is anarchy.
To believe in democracy, youhave to believe one of two
(10:25):
things.
Either you have to believe thatthe majority of people are
always right...
Or you have to believe thatsometimes the government has a
moral duty to do somethingthat's wrong because that's what
(10:45):
most people demand.
So either you have to deny theexistence of truth itself, in
which case your ideologycouldn't be true because nothing
could be true, Or you have tobelieve that sometimes there's a
moral duty to do somethingmorally wrong, which is a
(11:11):
logical contradiction thatautomatically makes your
ideology incoherent and wrong.
Either democracy is wrong, ordemocracy is wrong.
You can pick which way you'dlike to be fundamentally wrong,
but you're still fundamentallywrong.
(11:31):
So here's what the democracydebate all boils down to.
Here is the core reason whydemocracy doesn't work.
Brace yourself, because this isa very, very complicated, very,
very philosophical stuff I'mabout to say.
(11:53):
Here it goes.
Sometimes people can be wrongabout things.
In case you missed it,sometimes people can be wrong
about things.
In fact, sometimes the majorityof people can be wrong about
(12:17):
things.
All at the same time, themajority can be wrong.
Does that mean we should dothings that are wrong just
because that's what most peoplehappen to want at the moment?
If your answer is no, then youdon't believe in democracy.
(12:42):
If your answer is yes, then youhave fallen into moral
derangement and nihilism.
Here's all the proof you need.
In 1934, 90% of Germans votedto give Adolf Hitler absolute
(13:04):
power.
Call me a Nazi all you want,but I don't think the majority
of German voters should havegotten the Nazi regime they
wanted, because I'm not a bigfan of Nazis and Hitler.
Don't know about you.
But call me a Nazi for sayingthat all you like.
(13:25):
Do it to your heart's content.
So if you think the majority ofpeople should get whatever and
whoever they vote for, you haveto think it was perfectly
legitimate that Adolf Hitlerbecame dictator of Germany in
(13:46):
1934.
You have to think that.
Because if you don't, you'readmitting that sometimes the
majority shouldn't get what theywant.
You're admitting democracyneeds to have some very severe
(14:06):
limits on it.
Even when 90% of people wantsomething, they should be denied
that thing in some cases.
You're admitting there's anobjective moral law that must
never be violated, no matter howmany people demand it.
Here's another example, just tomake the point even clearer.
(14:31):
It is a fact that beforeslavery was abolished in the
United States, most Americanssupported it.
That is a fact.
The slaves didn't support it,but the majority of Americans
supported it.
Do you think that it was justand acceptable that slavery
(14:56):
continued?
If your answer is no, you'reagain admitting that the
majority can support evilthings, and that the will of the
majority should be denied,sometimes even by force, when
the majority wills bad things.
(15:16):
So in order to remain asupporter of democracy, in order
to remain a liberal, You haveto believe that both Adolf
Hitler's Nazi regime andAmerican slavery were perfectly
justified.
(15:37):
And I don't think most liberalswant to do that, considering
that the two things they love todo the most is accuse people on
the right of being Nazis andracists.
If you've listened to so far ofthis podcast, I have a feeling
you're interested in it.
And if that's true, pleaseconsider leaving a review
(16:00):
wherever you're listening tothis podcast.
Now let's get back to theepisode.
Democracy can lead to some verybad things.
Democracy is just as bad orworse than monarchy.
The amount of say the majorityhas over its government is
(16:22):
ultimately meaningless.
It doesn't matter where agovernment gets its power from.
It matters what the governmentdoes with its power.
Any form of government,democracy, aristocracy,
monarchy, a hybrid system,anything you can think of, is at
(16:44):
best a means to an end.
It should never be the end inand of itself.
Any form of government is apath you hope will lead you to a
destination.
The path...
is not the destination.
(17:04):
The destination is at the endof the path, or at least you
hope it's at the end of thepath.
The destination is liberty,prosperity, moral order, and the
rule of law.
Democracy isn't inherently anymore moral or just than any
(17:24):
other system.
Democracies aren't any lesstyrannical than ancient
monarchies.
In fact, modern democracy hasproven to be more tyrannical
than ancient monarchies.
Just look at the differencebetween Britain and France
during the French Revolution.
(17:45):
Let me ask you this, whichcountry do you think was freer
at the time?
The avowedly democratic,egalitarian regime that
mass-slaughtered 17,000 of itsown citizens and started a
continental war of aggressionthat lasted for two decades and
(18:09):
claimed untold lives?
Or the monarchy of England?
which enjoyed stability andprosperity and led the charge to
stop france's reign of terrorwhich was freer obviously the
monarchy was freer than thedemocracy Which do you think was
(18:33):
freer?
Our nation under the BritishEmpire, when we had to pay a 3%
tax on tea, or our nation underour new American Empire, where
we have to hand over half ofeverything we earn to the
government, where the governmenthas unconstitutional
(18:54):
surveillance programs to spy onall our online activity, sends
us to die in foreign wars thatare no longer possible, concern
of ours allows our nationalsovereignty to be undermined
with the illegal alien invasionwhich do you think is worse
obviously our current system isworse than what we rebelled
(19:19):
against in the AmericanRevolution if you look at
American history there is adirect correlation between
between America becoming moredemocratic and America becoming
worse and more tyrannical andmore immoral.
This is why the foundersrejected democracy and instead
(19:46):
founded a constitutionalrepublic.
They understood that democracywas a recipe for moral
relativism, anarchy, andsocietal collapse.
The Founding Fathers created aconstitutional republic, not a
(20:06):
democracy.
And the difference is that aconstitutional republic is, as
John Adams said, a government oflaws and not of men.
Whereas a democracy is agovernment of men and not of
laws.
In a constitutional republic,government is under the law, not
(20:32):
above the law.
Government is bound by naturallaw, morality, religion, and
truth.
In a constitutional republic,citizens still have a say over
what happens in theirgovernment, but there are limits
to their will.
(20:52):
There are checks on theirpower.
They cannot Just do a bad thingbecause that's what the
majority of people want.
Government is bound by thelimits of the moral law.
And any government that isn'tbound by those limits is a bad
(21:13):
and unjust government.
It is a tyranny.
Doesn't matter if it's ademocracy, a monarchy, whatever
it is, it's bad.
A government that is bound bythose limits is a good
government.
Doesn't matter if it's arepublic, a democracy, a
monarchy, whatever it is, it'sgood.
(21:33):
A good government does goodthings.
A bad government does badthings.
Whether a government is good orbad has nothing to do with how
much say the majority has.
It has nothing to do with thesource of its politicians'
(21:54):
power.
It has everything to do withwhether the government operates
under the law or above the law.
And that's why the FoundingFathers had restrictions on what
the majority could do.
That's why the Founding Fathersonly let a very tiny percentage
(22:15):
of people vote.
That's why the people couldn'teven directly vote for the
president or for senators.
Under the original republic,the Founding Fathers started.
And I'd argue we should returnto that.
We should return to having somecommon sense restrictions on
voting.
(22:35):
Some common sense limits ondemocracy.
People always say, That ourmain problems are that we have
this two-party system, that wedon't have term limits, that we
have all these lobbyists.
They think all of these thingsare the source of all of our
(22:57):
political problems.
And while all of those thingsare bad, all of those things
need to be reformed, they're notthe root cause of what's wrong
with our country.
The root cause is that we letstupid people vote who will
continually re-elect sociopathictyrants to rule over them.
(23:19):
Why are our politicians notaccountable to the people?
It's not because they don'thave to stand up to the vote of
the people, it's because thepeople don't hold them
accountable.
So how about we stop lettingstupid people vote?
How about we put some commonsense Limitations on democracy.
(23:42):
How about instead of having mobrule, we return to having a
government of laws and not ofmen?
How about we reject democracyand mob rule and return to the
constitutional republic ourfounding fathers envisioned?
(24:02):
Because it's only then that wecan truly begin to solve
America's problems.
Thanks for listening to thisepisode of The Conservative
Rebel.
If you liked it, please leave areview wherever you're
listening to this podcast.
It helps the show outenormously and helps us reach
(24:23):
even more people.
Thanks again.
Last week, we debunked the liberal
lie that liberty is doingwhatever you want, whenever you
want, without accountability orconsequences.
We defined liberty as the rightto do what you ought, not the
right to do anything you want.
Now that we know what libertytruly is, we can refute one of
(00:24):
the most holy and sacred lies ofliberalism.
The lie of democracy.
Most Americans, regardless ofwhether they consider themselves
(00:46):
conservative or liberal, havebeen indoctrinated into the
belief that liberty anddemocracy are the exact same
thing.
More democracy always meansmore freedom, and less democracy
always means less freedom.
(01:07):
And not only are we told this,we're also told that America's
entire national identity, itshistory, its culture, everything
you can think of about it, isbased on on abstract liberal
ideas of equality and democracythat our country was allegedly
(01:31):
founded on in 1776.
When you hear dumb people say,America is an idea, this is what
they mean.
America itself is democracy.
America itself is equality.
In short, America isliberalism.
(01:52):
So anyone who ever dares toquestion democracy or
egalitarianism or any of theseother principles is far more
than just a radical withunfashionable ideas.
He's a heretic who'sblaspheming the state religion.
He's a traitor who's deeplydisloyal to the United States
(02:18):
and everything it stands for.
Of course, now that much of theleft has completely abandoned
liberalism and embraced Marxism,in other words, now that their
focus has shifted from radicallychanging our nation to
deliberately destroying it, theydon't claim America was founded
(02:41):
on democracy and equalityanymore.
Instead, they switched to anarrative that's just as stupid,
which is that America wassettled by genocidal
supervillains who founded thecountry on mean things like
bigotry and slavery and misogynyand a million other spooky,
(03:04):
scary words that end with theletter Y that send chills up
liberal grandma's spines if youwhisper them in an eerie voice
on Halloween.
But that's a very fringe viewthat I don't think most people
really buy into, and I know fora fact zero people in my
audience buy into.
By far, the dominant view isthe democratic-slash-egalitarian
(03:30):
one.
We've all heard this pagancreation myth in school.
We all know the comic bookversion of American history,
where the founders werestarry-eyed liberal romantics on
some ideological crusadeagainst the evils of monarchy
(03:51):
and aristocracy.
They wanted to overturn the oldway of doing things and usher
in a new, enlightened age.
Most Americans emerge from thepublic school system convinced
that the founders started ourcountry as some experiment in
(04:13):
democracy, quote-unquote,dedicated to equality, popular
government, good vibes, and rockand roll.
Just like that one tall beardedskinny guy in the top hat said
that one time in that one speechafter that one big battle.
But if America was founded ondemocracy, someone must have
(04:37):
forgotten to tell the founders.
Here's what John Adams had tosay about this sacred American
principle.
Remember democracy never lastslong.
It soon wastes, exhausts, andmurders itself.
And Adams wasn't the only one.
(05:00):
Benjamin Rush, a famous signerof the Declaration of
Independence, called democracythe devil's own government.
Benjamin Franklin said,democracy is two wolves and a
lamb voting on what to have forsupper.
James Madison calleddemocracies spectacles of
(05:23):
turbulence and contention thatwere as short in their lives as
they have been violent in theirdeaths.
Alexander Hamilton calleddemocracy the most vile form of
government.
He said, "...the people areturbulent and changing.
(05:44):
They seldom judge or determineright." And I could go on and on
and on for hours with FoundingFathers quotes condemning
democracy.
In my famous mercy andcompassion, I won't subject you
to that, but I could if I wantedto.
(06:05):
But this should be enough foreveryone to get the point.
The Founders had nothing butcontempt for democracy and for
those who supported it.
The founders disagreed on a lotof things, but one of the
things they all agreed on wasthat democracy is stupid and
(06:27):
most people are unfit to have asay in how the American
government goes.
If Washington or Madison orHamilton were still alive today,
both conservatives and liberalswould accuse them of being
traitors to the American ideal.
(06:48):
Why were they so againstdemocracy?
Because they understood thatdemocracy is not the rule of the
people, whatever that'ssupposed to mean.
Democracy is the rule of themob.
Democracy is groupthink.
(07:09):
Democracy is anarchy.
Proponents of democracy alwayslike to claim that democracy is
rule of the people, by thepeople, for the people.
The people alone are sovereign.
Every decision must be madewith the people's permission,
(07:30):
for the benefit of the people.
We the people, people this,people that, people, people,
people.
So most Americans willimmediately think democracy must
be good and noble and they'llaccept it at face value.
There are two reasons that thisdoesn't convince me.
(07:50):
The first reason is the wordpeople.
As an anti-social hermit, Ishudder in terror at the very
mention of those strangecreatures known as people.
When I hear all this peopletalk, it doesn't make me like
democracy.
It makes me want to run awayfrom civilization, ripping my
(08:13):
hair out and howling, anddisappear into the jungle to
live in a cave and subsist onmaggots and earthworms until I
die.
And by until I die, I meanuntil the search and rescue crew
comes in with their helicopterand forcibly hauls my emaciated
carcass, kicking and screaming,back to civilization.
(08:35):
Ask any one of the three peoplewho know me, and they'll
confirm that this has happenedmultiple times.
So the first reason I'm notconvinced is the word people.
The second reason is also theword people.
Because that word is neverdefined.
It's nothing more than auseless abstraction.
(08:58):
What do you mean, the people?
Do you mean every single personmust agree to any decision
that's ever made?
Clearly you don't mean that.
So what do you mean?
You mean the majority ofpeople.
You mean the mob.
(09:19):
You mean might makes right.
You're a nihilist.
Democracy means that if you canget more than 50% of people to
support anything under the sun,they should get it and to hell
with anyone who disagrees andwhat anyone else thinks about
(09:42):
it.
I'm sorry, that's just what itis.
You can say that monarchies oraristocracies or any other form
of government is barbaric andbackwards, and you might be
right, but there's nothing morecrude, animalistic, and
unenlightened than uncheckedmajority rule.
(10:05):
This is groupthink.
This is a herd mentality.
This is again a fundamentallynihilistic and lawless system.
This is anarchy.
To believe in democracy, youhave to believe one of two
(10:25):
things.
Either you have to believe thatthe majority of people are
always right...
Or you have to believe thatsometimes the government has a
moral duty to do somethingthat's wrong because that's what
(10:45):
most people demand.
So either you have to deny theexistence of truth itself, in
which case your ideologycouldn't be true because nothing
could be true, Or you have tobelieve that sometimes there's a
moral duty to do somethingmorally wrong, which is a
(11:11):
logical contradiction thatautomatically makes your
ideology incoherent and wrong.
Either democracy is wrong, ordemocracy is wrong.
You can pick which way you'dlike to be fundamentally wrong,
but you're still fundamentallywrong.
(11:31):
So here's what the democracydebate all boils down to.
Here is the core reason whydemocracy doesn't work.
Brace yourself, because this isa very, very complicated, very,
very philosophical stuff I'mabout to say.
(11:53):
Here it goes.
Sometimes people can be wrongabout things.
In case you missed it,sometimes people can be wrong
about things.
In fact, sometimes the majorityof people can be wrong about
(12:17):
things.
All at the same time, themajority can be wrong.
Does that mean we should dothings that are wrong just
because that's what most peoplehappen to want at the moment?
If your answer is no, then youdon't believe in democracy.
(12:42):
If your answer is yes, then youhave fallen into moral
derangement and nihilism.
Here's all the proof you need.
In 1934, 90% of Germans votedto give Adolf Hitler absolute
(13:04):
power.
Call me a Nazi all you want,but I don't think the majority
of German voters should havegotten the Nazi regime they
wanted, because I'm not a bigfan of Nazis and Hitler.
Don't know about you.
But call me a Nazi for sayingthat all you like.
(13:25):
Do it to your heart's content.
So if you think the majority ofpeople should get whatever and
whoever they vote for, you haveto think it was perfectly
legitimate that Adolf Hitlerbecame dictator of Germany in
(13:46):
1934.
You have to think that.
Because if you don't, you'readmitting that sometimes the
majority shouldn't get what theywant.
You're admitting democracyneeds to have some very severe
(14:06):
limits on it.
Even when 90% of people wantsomething, they should be denied
that thing in some cases.
You're admitting there's anobjective moral law that must
never be violated, no matter howmany people demand it.
Here's another example, just tomake the point even clearer.
(14:31):
It is a fact that beforeslavery was abolished in the
United States, most Americanssupported it.
That is a fact.
The slaves didn't support it,but the majority of Americans
supported it.
Do you think that it was justand acceptable that slavery
(14:56):
continued?
If your answer is no, you'reagain admitting that the
majority can support evilthings, and that the will of the
majority should be denied,sometimes even by force, when
the majority wills bad things.
(15:16):
So in order to remain asupporter of democracy, in order
to remain a liberal, You haveto believe that both Adolf
Hitler's Nazi regime andAmerican slavery were perfectly
justified.
(15:37):
And I don't think most liberalswant to do that, considering
that the two things they love todo the most is accuse people on
the right of being Nazis andracists.
If you've listened to so far ofthis podcast, I have a feeling
you're interested in it.
And if that's true, pleaseconsider leaving a review
(16:00):
wherever you're listening tothis podcast.
Now let's get back to theepisode.
Democracy can lead to some verybad things.
Democracy is just as bad orworse than monarchy.
The amount of say the majorityhas over its government is
(16:22):
ultimately meaningless.
It doesn't matter where agovernment gets its power from.
It matters what the governmentdoes with its power.
Any form of government,democracy, aristocracy,
monarchy, a hybrid system,anything you can think of, is at
(16:44):
best a means to an end.
It should never be the end inand of itself.
Any form of government is apath you hope will lead you to a
destination.
The path...
is not the destination.
(17:04):
The destination is at the endof the path, or at least you
hope it's at the end of thepath.
The destination is liberty,prosperity, moral order, and the
rule of law.
Democracy isn't inherently anymore moral or just than any
(17:24):
other system.
Democracies aren't any lesstyrannical than ancient
monarchies.
In fact, modern democracy hasproven to be more tyrannical
than ancient monarchies.
Just look at the differencebetween Britain and France
during the French Revolution.
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Let me ask you this, whichcountry do you think was freer
at the time?
The avowedly democratic,egalitarian regime that
mass-slaughtered 17,000 of itsown citizens and started a
continental war of aggressionthat lasted for two decades and
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claimed untold lives?
Or the monarchy of England?
which enjoyed stability andprosperity and led the charge to
stop france's reign of terrorwhich was freer obviously the
monarchy was freer than thedemocracy Which do you think was
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freer?
Our nation under the BritishEmpire, when we had to pay a 3%
tax on tea, or our nation underour new American Empire, where
we have to hand over half ofeverything we earn to the
government, where the governmenthas unconstitutional
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surveillance programs to spy onall our online activity, sends
us to die in foreign wars thatare no longer possible, concern
of ours allows our nationalsovereignty to be undermined
with the illegal alien invasionwhich do you think is worse
obviously our current system isworse than what we rebelled
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against in the AmericanRevolution if you look at
American history there is adirect correlation between
between America becoming moredemocratic and America becoming
worse and more tyrannical andmore immoral.
This is why the foundersrejected democracy and instead
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founded a constitutionalrepublic.
They understood that democracywas a recipe for moral
relativism, anarchy, andsocietal collapse.
The Founding Fathers created aconstitutional republic, not a
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democracy.
And the difference is that aconstitutional republic is, as
John Adams said, a government oflaws and not of men.
Whereas a democracy is agovernment of men and not of
laws.
In a constitutional republic,government is under the law, not
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above the law.
Government is bound by naturallaw, morality, religion, and
truth.
In a constitutional republic,citizens still have a say over
what happens in theirgovernment, but there are limits
to their will.
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There are checks on theirpower.
They cannot Just do a bad thingbecause that's what the
majority of people want.
Government is bound by thelimits of the moral law.
And any government that isn'tbound by those limits is a bad
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and unjust government.
It is a tyranny.
Doesn't matter if it's ademocracy, a monarchy, whatever
it is, it's bad.
A government that is bound bythose limits is a good
government.
Doesn't matter if it's arepublic, a democracy, a
monarchy, whatever it is, it'sgood.
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A good government does goodthings.
A bad government does badthings.
Whether a government is good orbad has nothing to do with how
much say the majority has.
It has nothing to do with thesource of its politicians'
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power.
It has everything to do withwhether the government operates
under the law or above the law.
And that's why the FoundingFathers had restrictions on what
the majority could do.
That's why the Founding Fathersonly let a very tiny percentage
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of people vote.
That's why the people couldn'teven directly vote for the
president or for senators.
Under the original republic,the Founding Fathers started.
And I'd argue we should returnto that.
We should return to having somecommon sense restrictions on
voting.
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Some common sense limits ondemocracy.
People always say, That ourmain problems are that we have
this two-party system, that wedon't have term limits, that we
have all these lobbyists.
They think all of these thingsare the source of all of our
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political problems.
And while all of those thingsare bad, all of those things
need to be reformed, they're notthe root cause of what's wrong
with our country.
The root cause is that we letstupid people vote who will
continually re-elect sociopathictyrants to rule over them.
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Why are our politicians notaccountable to the people?
It's not because they don'thave to stand up to the vote of
the people, it's because thepeople don't hold them
accountable.
So how about we stop lettingstupid people vote?
How about we put some commonsense Limitations on democracy.
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How about instead of having mobrule, we return to having a
government of laws and not ofmen?
How about we reject democracyand mob rule and return to the
constitutional republic ourfounding fathers envisioned?
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Because it's only then that wecan truly begin to solve
America's problems.
Thanks for listening to thisepisode of The Conservative
Rebel.
If you liked it, please leave areview wherever you're
listening to this podcast.
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