Democracy Always Leads to Despotism; We Are A Constitutional Republic, Big Difference

By David William Jedell Updated June 25, 2025

If you do an internet search on the meaning of democracy, know it or not, you will finf that 95% are mnodified to distrort the meaning and slant it towards a sameness with a our republic. GIGANTIC TOTALITARIAN PROPAGANDA!!! Noting the identity of these propagandists who insist that America is a Democracy is a good way to identify publishers who cannot be trusted; totalitarian useful idiots and Marxists.

The Founding Fathers Rejected Democracy

The Founding Fathers universally rejected democracy and hoped that posterity would never turn the United States into one. The word they used was republic,which is not synonymous with democracy. The word democracy is not in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. Even the Pledge of Allegiance is to the republic for which it stands. So why did they reject democracy? Because it is inherently flawed with the share the wealth philosophy, which only works as long as there is someone else's money to share. Those receiving are quite pleased with getting something for nothing. But those forced to give are denied the right to spend the benefits of their own labor in their own self-interest, which creates jobs no matter how the money is spent. They also lose a portion of their incentive to produce.

Marxist View

"Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat." — Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism

The Battle for Democracy is a Term Coined By Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto “…the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.” – Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Books, 1985, originally published in 1848), p.104. https://forcingchange.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/communism-socialism-and-world-change-40-quotes-to-make-you-think/ (number 4)

Communist Emma Goldman

Communist Woodrow Wilson

FOUNDERS' QUOTES ON A DEMOCRACY VS. REPUBLIC

"Democracy is the most vile form of government. ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as the have been violent in their deaths."— James Madison (1751-1836) Father of the Constitution, 4th President of the U. S.

“Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.” — George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

“We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.” — Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) Lawyer, Secretary of the Treasury & Secretary of State

“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit, and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable [abominable] cruelty of one or a very few.” — John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” — Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

“A democracy is a volcano, which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption, and carry desolation in their way.” — Fisher Ames (1758-1808) Founding Father and framer of the First Amendment to the Constitution

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” — John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent." — Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U. S.

Benjamin Franklin defined democracy as two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions." - John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

"Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors." - John Adams (1797-1801) Second President of the United States and Patriot

More Quotes https://www.sott.net/article/271456-A-warning-from-history-Quotes-on-Democracy-vs-Republic

Fraser Tyler, author of The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic authored more than 200 years ago said it best. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. The majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." The result is a diminished standard of living for everyone, as was the case under 20th Century communism.

A republic gives place to majority rules; the majority is not always right. A republic is also based upon natural unalienable rights that come from a source higher than man (for example life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.) Minority rights are protected from the majority in a republic. In a republic there is an emphasis on individual differences rather than absolute equality. Such individual differences are seen as a strength in a republic rather than as a flaw under democracy, which equates sameness as equality. Limited government is also a major aspect of a republic. The government is handcuffed from dominating our lives. There is a list of functions and a clear process for obtaining additional power. The Founders created a republic, not a democracy. http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/06/29/the-founding-fathers-rejected-democracy/

The U.S. Constitution

The Guarantee Clause imposes limitations on the type of government a state may have. The Clause requires the United States to prevent any state from imposing rule by monarchy, dictatorship, aristocracy, or permanent military rule, even through majority vote. Instead, governing by electoral processes is constitutionally required https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iv/clauses/42

References

How ex-CIA interference with the ‘Spies Who Lie’ letter may have helped make Biden become the president https://nypost.com/2024/06/26/opinion/how-cia-interference-with-the-spies-who-lie-letter-made-biden-the-president/?utm_campaign=applenews&utm_medium=inline&utm_source=applenews

Supreme Court rules in favor of Jan. 6 Capitol riot participant who challenged obstruction conviction https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-favor-jan-6-capitol-riot-participant-challenged-obstruction-conviction

The Supreme Court weakens federal regulators, overturning decades-old Chevron decision https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-chevron-regulations-environment-5173bc83d3961a7aaabe415ceaf8d665

SCOTUS allows ban on sleeping on public property https://www.wivb.com/news/washington-dc/scotus-allows-ban-on-sleeping-on-public-property/

A position paper published by the World Economic Forum, released Monday, argued that more government action is needed to combat “climate change,” not just to avert damage to the world’s climate, but also to save democracy. https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/world-economic-forum-paper-fighting-climate-change-necessary-to-save-democracy/

Reject the source entirely when you hear or read "What you should know..." or "Experts say..." or "Fact check..." or "Most people believe..." "Polls indicate..." or "Scientists believe such and such MIGHT be true ..." or "Protestors complain about..." or "Doctor gives medical advice (Ph.d in English literature) ..." or "The good news is...' See, The Press: Equivocal, https://time.com/archive/6766558/the-press-equivocal/

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