The Cathedral's opinion molders are remarkably deceptive about the American Founding Fathers’ belief in the republican form of government, which contrasts quite a bit with “democracy.”
Time Stamps:
Opening (0:00)
Introduction Statement (1:42)
Who's Planting the Narrative? (2:06)
The Founders of the Republic on Democracy (4:28)
Joe Biden: The Sage of Democracy (9:02)
A Time Capsule of Legacy Media Malpractice (12:15)
Hunter Biden Takes a Fall (19:52)
Who's Planting the Narrative?
CNN Correspondent Donie O’Sullivan intended to deliver an alarming report on Trump supporters who correctly responded to the anti-Trumpian “democracy” narrative, stating that it is a republic.
With a stage set with all the theatrics - gloomy music, defiant street interviews, and eyebrows propped up high - O’Sullivan spoke for the rightful molders of allowable opinion, dutifully horrified by more historically accurate answers than his own.
One thing we've been hearing [at] Trump rallies like this over the past few months is that America isn't really a democracy. But for centuries, America has celebrated its democracy. But some Republicans and pro-Trump media [personalities] are pushing the idea that America is not a democracy.
Eventually, the time came for Anne Applebaum to come in, seemingly to reinforce O’Sullivan's faulty premise and spin it as a phenomenon that began just over the past year.
DONIE O’SULLIVAN: Is America a democracy?
ANNE APPLEBAUM: America is a democracy. It was founded as a democracy.
O’SULLIVAN: I've heard a lot of conspiracy theories. I hear a lot of things out on the road. But to hear Americans - people who describe themselves as patriots say that America is not a democracy - that stopped me in my tracks.
APPLEBAUM: You are hearing people say America is not a democracy because there are people around Trump who want them to be saying that, who been planting that narrative. Honestly, the word '“democracy” and the word “republic” have often been used interchangeably. There isn't a meaningful difference between them.
So, were the United States founded as a democracy?
Did the Founding generation have anything to say about meaningful differences between a republic and a democracy?
It didn't take long to find some quotes that drew a stark contrast.
The Founders of the Republic on Democracy
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams
"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."
- John Marshall
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."
- James Madison
In the 39th installment of the Federalist Papers, James Madison prescribes a “strictly republican” form of government “which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.”
For Madison, neither Holland, Venice, Poland, nor England qualified as “a genuine republic,” but instead, demonstrated “the extreme inaccuracy with which the term has been used in political disquisitions.” Undoubtedly, North Korea fails the sniff test to an extreme that would horrify James Madison.
It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.
How can we imagine a scenario in which power was willfully delegated by the governed, and not simply obtained as a matter of conquest?
Is - or rather, are - the United States “no longer defensible” if its central government no longer holds self-government as a defining tenet of its existence?
What does it mean to abandon the convention if the central government is “found to depart from [its] republican character?”
If no other form than a republic is “reconcilable with the genius of the people of America,” that necessarily includes democracy itself, as CNN demands, absent of the “honorable determination” that Madison prescribes in the Federalist Papers.
But should we yield to the journalistic integrity of Donie O’Sullivan and Anne Applebaum, James Madison was a “conspiracy theorist” who simply “planted a narrative” with no genius to his name. Because, leaving aside his status as a Founding Father - “the Father of the Constitution,” some would say - and simply described his view of a republic, that's ultimately the profile that leads CNN and legacy media to peddle such a label.
Orange Man bad, Little Jimmy bad.
Joe Biden: The Sage of Democracy
Just as a reminder where we left off with CNN:
O’SULLIVAN: So much of the warnings and criticism about Trump is that he is a threat to democracy, that he is anti-democratic.
APPLEBAUM: Absolutely. If if they can convince people that we don't have a democracy then it's okay that Trump is attacking democracy because it doesn't really matter.
Good thing we have this great mountain top sage.
Perhaps unwittingly, Joe Biden made a reference to Thomas Jefferson, who said, “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” We'll leave it up to others to speculate on the natural manure that may or may not have been an issue during Joe Biden's most recent D-Day appearance.
"What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason
In 1833, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story had this to say.
"The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms has justly been considered the palladium of the liberties of the republic, since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
Hunter Biden Takes a Fall
Hunter Biden has been found guilty on all three charges:
The jury, which deliberated for just under three hours, returned guilty verdicts on all three charges, which stemmed from a revolver Hunter Biden bought in October 2018 at a Delaware gun shop. The first two counts were for lying about his drug use on a federal background check form, and the third count was for possessing a gun while addicted to, or using, illegal drugs.
Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $750,000 at sentencing, though he likely will receive far less than the maximum as a first-time offender. Before dismissing the parties, the judge told them sentencing is usually set for 120 days following a verdict, which means it is likely to happen before Election Day.
While some have celebrated, our response should be somber.
He was convicted of victimless crimes. The conviction undermines the right to own a gun. He had a gun? You're a gun-grabber. He was on crack? You're a crack-grabber.
But puns aside, narcotics are widely obtained by putting oneself in a potentially dangerous situation run on turf warfare. Dealers and gang members likely have plenty of access to firearms to enforce their will. Why shouldn't a user have the access necessary to protect himself?
Are you willing to put your own liberty at risk when this low-hanging fruit is picked off, and the state isn't content with their limits of power?
This case represents a false assurance that nobody is above the law. Really? So, why isn't Burisma being investigated by Merrick Garland? Would he gladly implicate his own boss? Or does Hunter serve their narrative as a fall guy and justify their lawfare monsoon against Donald Trump, whom they refuse to run a fair campaign against?
If democracy itself is chaotic, violent, and suicidal - in reference to what the Founders actually said - imagine topping it all off with Deep State information operations and lawfare.
External Resources:
Federalist Papers No. 39 by James Madison
Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand
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