Sunday, July 14, 2013

DEMOCRACY REQUIRES LEADERSHIP, NOT DICTATORSHIP



Why our democracy has succeeded while others fail
Townhall – Bruce Bialosky – 7/14/2013

Egypt is on everyone’s mind as a democratically-elected government was overthrown by the Egyptian military. It is utterly necessary as the country was moving toward an Islamic state, slowly turning into, at minimum, an oligarchy if not a dictatorship. The question becomes why, after only about a year, did the government fail where ours has endured for 226 years?

The answer is right under our noses and we often do not think about it. Our government had the advantage of six giants of history involved from the start. Those men were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and Hamilton. Each one asserted an influence of deep dynamics that thrust us forward on the road to not only being the most successful democracy that has ever existed, but also the most economically successful and sound country in history.

If you cast back to our leaders from our inception, these are people who stepped up to the times. As you may have noticed, the list includes our first four presidents who gave our country tremendous stability in the first 28 years. . . .  because of the strength of the leadership and structure of our government that had been formed, we survived.

Egypt is on everyone’s mind as a democratically-elected government was overthrown by the Egyptian military. It is utterly necessary as the country was moving toward an Islamic state, slowly turning into, at minimum, an oligarchy if not a dictatorship. The question becomes why, after only about a year, did the government fail where ours has endured for 226 years?

The answer is right under our noses and we often do not think about it. Our government had the advantage of six giants of history involved from the start. Those men were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and Hamilton. Each one asserted an influence of deep dynamics that thrust us forward on the road to not only being the most successful democracy that has ever existed, but also the most economically successful and sound country in history.

If you cast back to our leaders from our inception, these are people who stepped up to the times. As you may have noticed, the list includes our first four presidents who gave our country tremendous stability in the first 28 years. Yet, because of the strength of the leadership and structure of our government that had been formed, we survived.

There rarely is any thought of a military coup in the United States.

Yet because of a totally inept government In Egypt that has left their economy in total disarray, they have further exacerbated the crisis.

What Morsi did as president of Egypt was spend his time jailing journalists. What he spent his time doing was making laws that subverted the rule of law established in the newly adopted Constitution (that had challenges itself), heading him toward being a dictator and not a president. The people instead took to the streets. Over a quarter of the population (22 million) joined the protests to express Morsi had to go.

READER COMMENT:  And don't forget that behind those men of 1776-98 were three centuries of European debate on the best form of government for a CHRISTIAN people. Let's not forget that in the 18th century, most Americans were schooled in a religion that taught that all of us born by natural generation (i.e., everybody but Jesus Christ) was a depraved sinner from birth, and that the preservation of our race, for which governments were instituted among men, depended on not letting any one sinner or group of sinners getting too much power.

When a religion like Islam flatters its followers into thinking that they are "the best of men" rather than "a stiff-necked and froward people" (as in religions that take the Old Testament seriously as God's Word), you have a very unpromising soil for a constitutional government by political compact.


Northwoods Patriots - Standing up for Faith, Family, Country - northwoodspatriotscomm@gmail.com

No comments:

Post a Comment