December 8, 2021

The Opposite of Tyranny Is Not Democracy

By J.B. Shurk

In essence, Western governments have initiated a silent campaign to “find and replace” freedom with democracy in order to rewrite history, dilute the public’s protected powers, and expand government control.  Just days ago, D.C. Judge Amy Berman Jackson lectured one of the political prisoners being held by the federal government by actually arguing that the American War for Independence concerned people “who went on to form a democracy” and that the “point of 1776 was to let the people to decide who would rule them.”  So we have another federal judge who knows so little about the U.S. Constitution and America’s history that she erroneously thinks both that we are a “democracy” and that the Revolutionary War was fought so that the people could erect a system under which they would be ruled over in perpetuity.  Neither is remotely correct, yet only by pretending that inalienable rights are nonexistent and that power exists not with the people, but with the ruling class can another daft judge reframe something as American as a political rally as if it were strangely foreign and unprecedented.  It is Judge Jackson whose ignorance betrays the spirit of 1776, yet she knows no better because she exists as part of the same ruling class committed to swapping the idea of freedom with the idea of democracy before the public figures out what it has lost.