Democracy versus Totalitarianism

History is replete with stories of the conflict between the drive for individual freedom as opposed to those who would control the lives of others. The Blessings of democracy are bestowed on many who don’t have a clue about this historical conflict. Thus they take for granted freedoms which they enjoy. This ignorance is rampant in America, the most successful democracy in history.

Proof of this ignorance is how the freedoms enjoyed by people in democratic nations are used. It is like gossip in a small town but on a national/international scale. Petty, self-centered rhetoric repeated with little thought of its implications abounds

in the public dialogue. Politicians stimulate and encourage inane, unsubstantiated assertion for the sole purpose of getting elected and gaining personal power. Principal, thoughtful evaluation of public issues has become impossible for two main reasons:

1. Partisan spin and devious agendas.

2. The dumbing down of the American public.

The fact that we are a democratic republic is ignored, buried and misrepresented by those who take an oath to “protect the Constitution of the United States of America”.

Why should we care?

Fuzzy, warm feelings of peace on earth have lulled people, especially Americans blessed with unearned democracy, into believing it will just happen. History tells us otherwise. One powerful observation is that democratic nations do not war with one another. All major world conflicts have been between those seeking the freedoms that democracy guarantees and those who seek to gain power over others for personal gain. On the world stage these are the likes of the Mongol Hordes, the Roman empire, Communism, Fascism and theocratic dictatorships.

Most of these have been defeated or contained ......... until now.

In the modern, globalized world we now live in, isolation from these unacceptable regimes is not possible. The emergence of terrorist groups working accrosu international boundaries is the new enemy of democratic institutions. They constitute a new and different threat which has suddenly surprised the world with its potency. If nothing else focuses our attention on threats to our security, this should. But, alas, the ignorance of the beneficiaries of unearned democratic freedoms, are asleep. They revel in self rightious indignation that we should try to fight this battle by talking. With their heads in the sand, they wring their hands and wail and stomp their feet. Not only are they pathetic, they are enableing the enmey!!! I suspect some of them are the enemy.

So what do we do about our enemies?

Jesus told us to turn the other cheek. Is that what the apologists for peace want us to do? Somehow I can’t resolve this dilemma in my own mind. What I do know is that more good has been done in the world by democratic nations than all the others in history. So there must be some reason to fight a “just war” against anarchy and totalitarianism. A just war is one n which the fighting and killing of the enemy results in less damage to people than if we did nothing. To me it is clear that that is exactly what the Bush Administration is trying to do.

So if you think your opposition to the Bush Administration policies is patriotic, then you are wrong. It is anti-democracy, un-American,un-patriotic and makes you a friend of America’s enemies.

If you still don’t get it, you just make my whole point. You are ignorant, foolish,, selfish, dumb, etc. and deserve to be ignored and relegated to the junkpile of history of others who didn’t get it.