AMERICA: A REPUBLIC
The Founding Fathers did not call it a democracy, but a republic. They saw a pure democracy as leading to unchecked populism, where the interests of minorities would be ignored or marginalised,
To demonstrate that concern, the populous state of California has a far greater influence in the House of Representatives than any other state. Of the 435 representatives, California has 51 whereas Wyoming, a thinly populated state, has only a single representative in the House.
In order to provide some balance to the likelihood that a few states would dominate the national interest, the Founding Fathers established the Senate. Each state, regardless of its size and population, has two Senators.
Thus, the Senate diffuses power and refines democracy.
While democratic practice is enshrined in the constitution, the diffusion and refinement of that power distinguishes America from being a pure democracy. That distinction is what makes America a republic.
LIBERALISM AND THE LEFT
To a large extent, the distortion of political realities and understanding is due to the misappropriation attached to the term ‘liberal.’
Liberalism has lost its identity because as a reference it has been appropriated by the Left. The association of liberalism with tolerance has been exploited by the Left to the extent that tolerance is no longer bound by the core principles of liberalism – merit and liberty, individual rights and the rule of law. Unbounded tolerance leads to anarchy and revolution – the instruments of the Left.
DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion, the strategy of the Left to upend and transform societies, runs counter to the philosophy of liberalism. Yet so-called liberals have succumbed to it.
Liberalism embraces free enterprise capitalism and opposes socialism. But thanks to the vast influence of the Left in academia and the mass media, liberal institutions have been overwhelmed by the socialism of the Left.
Liberalism champions integration. But increasingly the Left champions group identity, which translates into the segregation of races—Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, the 1619 Project. By attempting to hew to the ideal of merit, regardless of race, liberals find themselves labelled as racists by the Left.
Liberals uphold national sovereignty and oppose open borders but the Left divides the world in terms of class, the ‘class struggle’ being a core aspect of Marxism. Nationalism is anathema to the globalists of the Left, whose policy of open borders is intended to dismantle national homogeneity and replace it with Orwellian hemisphere zones.
Liberals uphold Western civilisation. But the Left scorns that as a euphemism for white supremacy.
In that liberalism has become synonymous with the Left and has lost its identity, it finds itself in a psychotic state. That situation is illustrated by the decision of lifelong, liberal loyalist and Democrat, Robert F Kennedy, to associate himself politically with the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
RFK recognises that despite the Left’s disparagement of Trump’s Maga movement, it endorses many of the principles the liberal Democratic Party used to uphold but which have been lost by its submergence in the politics of the Left.
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