To seek out and encourage registered members who espouse the Republican Party principles, to become candidates for public office at every level and to actively assist trustworthy, honest and transparent candidates in winning elections and other duties not prohibited by law as will benefit the general welfare of the Oceana County Republican Party. To Support:
The Bill of Rights
Sanctity of Life
Limited Government
Individual Responsibilities
Lower Taxes
Balanced Budgets
Lower Debt
ARE WE A REPUBLIC OR DEMOCRACY?
So you think we’re a Democracy? Go ahead and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Why wasn’t Democracy in there and why was the word Republic in it? That’s because we are a Republic and definitely NOT a democracy. But, why do we learn in school and hear everyone say it in politics and the news say we are a democracy? The answer is simple...
Everyone has learned that in school for the past 80-some years. While we are NOT a democracy, somewhere along the line we switched from using the word Republic to Democracy. Why did we change from saying what we are, a Republic, to a Democracy? And why does it matter? It has to do with two things:
50% + 1 and Your Rights
Our Founders set us up as a Republic, not as a democracy. I would say read ALL of the Founding documents, but just go ahead look for the word “Democracy” as you simply glance over the primary founding documents, the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land...
You won’t find it. Look over any of the founding documents and personal letters of our founders and you will find the word Republic describing us only. You WILL also find the word democracy here and there in some personal writings...but only as a warning to us to stay away from it. Why? The founders were well read, better than we are. Some of them actually read original source material in the original Greek and Latin. What we read today are opinions of that source material, opinions of other historians opinions on source material, or a teacher’s opinion on the opinion of someone else’s opinion on the opinion of source material....
Instead of this, I suggest we keep it simple...the student in any school can “school” the teacher by spending five minutes reading the Constitution and destroy what their teacher thinks he or she knows in four years of college. Because what that teacher “knows” on this issue...is simply not true and does not exist. If in doubt...make them Prove it with original source material! They have been unsuccessful for 80 years, but that’s a dirty secret. Sadly, it’s a secret even to them! Pure Democracy only existed one time in known human history. That was in Greece. Socrates was there. It left such a bad taste in Socrates’s mouth that it led him on a lifelong project to discover the best system of government that he passed on to his student Plato to fulfill, and he failed. It actually left such a bad taste in his mouth because he was a young soldier at the time and was in combat due to the whimsical nature of democracy. People would meet in the Agora one day, vote on everything they wanted to be law with their friends and then go home. The next time another guy would come with all of his friends and vote and change the rules. This led to chaos. Because so long as 50% + 1 of people voting said something was so, it was so. Then the next day it wasn’t...
Soon, bloodshed was in the streets as no one had rights ANY guaranteed by the people...because the people were the government...and the government was whatever people showed up to vote on any given day in the Greek Agora. Our Founders lived under a Tyranny that could impose whatever it was they wanted at any given time: they had no Rights! The Greeks lived under a Tyranny of the masses that could impose whatever it was they wanted at any given time: they had no rights either! The Solution? A Constitutional Republic
Each person is guaranteed “unalienable rights”: especially the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as found in the Preamble to OUR Constitution. We know the authors of the Constitution: Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin, etc. But, today, we don’t learn about that in school. What we learn instead is about some term some other guys sometime created called “Core Democratic Values”...and we never learn their names. Maybe on purpose? They are hidden from us: your teacher can tell you who authored the US Constitution but NOT who authored the simple term “Core Democratic Values”. And why do away with Republic where you and I, individually, have rights, and make us think only of Democracy, where only the Mob of the Day has Rights? The Answer is simple...
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Because if we get enough people thinking that we ARE a Democracy and NOT a Republic a great thing is accomplished, but not in a good way. A Republican form of government was created to guarantee OUR RIGHTS: it is the first and foremost mission of our government to ensure our individual rights are guaranteed and not denied by anything or anyone else. In a democracy, it is the people who show up who gets to decide what your rights are and are not, and you don’t have a single right that cannot be taken away by the democratic 50%+1 government. So: are we a Republic or a Democracy? If you believe in having a government comprised of a Constitution that is there to protect your God or Natural created rights from others...then you are a Republic. If you believe in having a government that is there to tell you what your rights are depending on what is 50%+1 say today, then you are a Democracy. You might ask yourself a simple question:
Why is it in a deeply political world that we live in, why does it seem that SO MANY people from opposing politics can ALWAYS agree on one issue? Why every textbook, every teacher, every politician, every news anchor, every businessman, every union member, every whatever, will always say “We are a Democracy” when asked what form of government we are? They were all taught in the same place, by the same people who want you to believe we are a Democracy...when the people who created our government said otherwise. Again, its 50%+1...Republic vs. Democracy. Why does everything, if we dig, teach us the exact opposite of the obvious truth, even those we don’t have to dig for like the Pledge of Allegiance? Why does everyone we know tell us we are a Democracy but steer clear of the fact that the Founders said steer clear of Democracy?
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Under a Republic, you have guaranteed Rights. Having RIGHTS is what separates us as Americans from, literally, everyone else anywhere on the planet right now back to the Dawn of Time:
I control my fate. Do you? Under a Democracy, you have guaranteed rights for a Day. But only day by day. It only takes a good manipulator (news media, education system, etc) to craft your mind, your way of thinking, and then to sway your vote, and put them in control. If you haven’t been paying attention, it’s not so much that they immediately seek control of government as that is the final outcome fought across a million young minds, one generation at a time: the objective is to control your vote by forming your thinking, thereby controlling your mind, and then to get you to believe that you have no rights without them. That is a democracy. If you ever heard the saying “Keep it Simple, Stupid”, then apply it. A Republic has your back on your rights: a Democracy is controlled to make you give them up. I don’t know what is worse: a Monarchy or Tyranny that our Founder’s fought or a Democracy or Mob Rule that Our Founders read about from Ancient Greece. But what I do know is this: At the end of it all, they explicitly left Democracy out of our thoughts...they didn’t want us to go anywhere near it as personal rights and liberties are not guaranteed. This is what I do know:
Following a Revolution against Tyranny and after finally crafting a form of government for us to live by, Dr. Benjamin Franklin walked down the steps of Independence Hall. The Constitutional Convention had just ended moments before. He was tired but excited at what had just happened....we we have a government ruled by One that tells us our rights, a government ruled by 50%+1 that tells us our rights, or do we get to keep our rights that we know we already have since the moment we were born? A woman walked up to Franklin and asked: Well, Doctor, what have we got, a Republic or a Monarchy? The word Democracy never entered this woman’s mind. And he answered:
“A Republic, if you can keep it”. My question is: when Mr. Franklin said, “A Republic, if you can keep it”, did he really mean if, if YOU and I can keep it?”
Andrew A. Sebolt
Oceana County Republicans
