Posted by
grassroots_conservative on Monday, February 18, 2008 10:20:41 PM
There was a clich
é
I heard so many times in high school—”Majority rules, and
minority rights.” That was meant to illustrate the balance between
and republic and democracy, a justification of populism moderated by
some rule of law. It really does a better job of describing the state
of rule that exists today in our country—that of “mobocracy”—since
the “minority” is still just another group (unless it is the
individual staking his claim to natural God-given rights). Mobocracy
is a result of collectivism and loosely reined democracy where
various factions take turns in or coordinate efforts in robbing the
cookie jar. The only thing that keeps a single group from gaining
tyrannical power over the rest is the inability to secure a critical
mass of power. That has been our one saving grace over the many
decades, but it may not always be so.
Most of the Boortz disciples are
familiar with this term. Michael Savage also points out this national
malady. You should thank them for having educated you, if such is the
case, because there is no greater threat to our country, neither from
within nor without. Ayn Rand used the term many years ago as she
pointed out that such rule of popular will, which is fickle at best,
obliterates the type of principled leadership that brought about this
great nation in the first place. Not only is there a lack of
ideology guiding the country today, but there is a reigning
anti-ideology
which provides “. . . as a guiding creed the following tenets: that
statistics should be substituted for the truth, vote-counting for
principles, numbers for rights, and public polls for morality—that
pragmatic, range-of-the moment expediency should be the criterion of
an idea's truth or falsehood—that any desire of any nature
whatsoever should be accepted as a valid claim provided it is held by
a sufficient number of people—that a majority may do anything it
pleases to a minority—in short, gang rule and mob rule . . .
contained in—and camouflaged by—the notion of 'Government by
consensus.'”
It seems to me that
the dominant news and entertainment media are the leading propagators
of this anti-ideology, and the politicians and power groups are
co-conspirators; but it could be the other way around. Most of the
ones we should expect to look toward for leadership and guidance
against the endless onslaught of popular oppression seem to have been
worn down over the years by the sheer centripetal force of mindless
sheeple reacting in aggregate to the decontructionist methods of the
propagandists that influence everything we see and hear. We do not
hear many voices of principle and and justice. Instead we get
soothing lies for itching ears.
Where can we turn for the beacon in the
storm? Go back and read the founding documents and the holy
scriptures. Go to your places of worship. The stalwart works of
truth and light that have endured centuries; our communities of
like-minded people that hold principle above convenience, truth above
compromise, and justice over expediency—in these we find refuge
from the storm and recharge our energy for the ongoing battle.