Social Media Censorship: The Silent War

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The establishment of the United States of America is the defining event in the history of political thought and governance. Our Founding Fathers, influenced by the political philosophers of their time and the historical examples of ancient governments, sought to create a unique system of government that would protect individual rights and prevent descent into tyranny.

The Founding Fathers were profoundly influenced by the writings of political philosophers such as John Locke and Montesquieu. Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government” argued that the purpose of government is to protect the natural rights of its citizens, including life, liberty, and property. Montesquieu’s “The Spirit of the Laws” emphasized the importance of a separation of powers to prevent the abuse of power.

These ideas were reflected in the design of the United States’ founding documents. The Constitution established a federal system with a separation of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The system was intended to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful and to ensure that the government would be accountable to the people.

The Founding Fathers were also influenced by the historical examples of ancient Greece and Rome. They were aware of the strengths and weaknesses of these ancient governments and sought to learn from their successes and failures. The Roman Republic served as a model for the United States government, with its system of checks and balances and its emphasis on the rule of law.

In the Federalist Papers, a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the Constitution, the distinction between a democracy and a republic is discussed in detail. Federalist No. 10, written by James Madison, argues that a republic is superior to a democracy because it is more stable and less prone to the dangers of majority faction.

He wrote: “Hence it is that 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 they have been violent in their deaths.”

Democracy was to have no place in an American system of government. Interestingly, the word “democracy” appears exactly zero times in our Declaration of Independence. It’s not in the US Constitution, and you won’t find it in any of the 50 state Constitutions.

At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked Ben Franklin what kind of government they decided on, to which he replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” They knew that a republic was the enemy of tyrants and foresaw the slow erosion of its freedom-granting principles.

Every day, we witness our political and media overlords relentlessly pushing the narrative that “our democracy is in peril!” It is evident that our founders understood the dangers of an American democracy. They correctly pointed out that democracy is incompatible with the rule of law. Democracy is mob rule and will only evolve into terminal totalitarianism.

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