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.
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.
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