On June 4th, 2020, I wrote an article titled “Covid-19 Creates One of the Greatest Scandals in Medical History,” in which I cited an excellent expose piece written by the indefatigable Dr. James M. Todaro, an MD at Columbia, who helped expose one of the greatest medical scandals of all time. This scandal remains one of the greatest medical scandals in world history — in fact, it just became even more scandalous — and I encourage you to read the full article:
I bring it up again now, over six months later, because look what happened today, and not by coincidence, you may be absolutely certain of that:
The propaganda worldwide, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone else, is the worst it’s ever been — ever — and if you don’t see it, I submit that that’s a testament to how very serious it actually is.
This is one of the most dangerous times the world has ever faced — because the social media platforms have the reach and the power to get into so many minds: like never before.
It has never been more important to unleash the full and awesome power of your critical faculty, your thinking mind.
Don’t relinquish the power of your independent thought and judgement. Do not.
Exercise it more than you ever have.
It doesn’t matter what side of the political aisle you place yourself upon — that’s irrelevant to this subject — and it doesn’t matter what your religious views are: please exert the amazing powers of your intellectual capacity, your critically thinking investigative brain.
Question everything you read and hear. Everything.
Don’t worship at the shrine of government — any government — don’t lionize or glorify or put upon a pedestal any of these politicians. Not any of them. They are corrupt by definition, and they will never stop lying to you. Ever. These are not good people. These are pandering, prevaricating, phony ex-people. They’re as crooked as they come. Joe Biden’s well-documented racial slurs and friendships with unapologetic racists leftwing and right — which even Kamala Harris called him out on before she was in his hip-pocket (and that should tell you everything you need about her scruples and her lack of principles); Joe Biden’s record and her record on marijuana prosecutions, as when Kamala Harris laughed publicly about destroying innocent lives.
These are not good people.
Good people do not act the way that politicians do.
Don’t be fooled by crooked, corrupt, ignorant politicians. It’s beneath your brain-power to put any such trust or faith in such twisted, power-hungry people.
I urge you — I plead with you — to use the unbelievable power of your independent mind and your capacity to reason on your own. The power of your mind is more awesome than you maybe even realize.
Think for yourself.
Don’t just take on faith what these people are bombarding you with, minute by minute, and will continue bombarding you with, indefinitely.
These people don’t want you or me to think for ourselves. They fear this more than anything: because if you think for yourself, you can’t be fooled by them or anyone.
Question everything you read or hear in the media, and everything that comes out of any politician’s or bureaucrat’s mouth.
Politico-economic ideologies and their ramifications are never the cause but the effect — merely the end result and consequences of the spread of these bad ideas, which are philosophical in their provenance and as such begin in the minds of individual human beings, who then write them down and teach them, and in this way these ideas spread through the halls of higher education and into homes and across airwaves, the majority of people accepting them by default as much as by anything: because a thorough refutation would require a great deal of time and effort and thought.
Thus do ideas and ideologies — no matter how bad, ridiculous, or nonsensical they actually are — propagate and spread like mushrooms.
Yet at the foundation of every philosophical idea, there is a cogent issue — cogent in the sense that there is an authentic need within the human mind: a need which some ideas strive genuinely to clarify and other ideas strive genuinely to confuse.
The Danger of Democracy
A democratic government is that system of government under which those ruled determine by vote the exercise of the legislative and executive power and the selection of supreme executives and other government personnel.
This is also sometimes known as vox populi — a Latin term meaning “voice of the people” — and the winner is of course determined by majority rule.
Majority rule is stupendously dangerous.
If, for example, a majority votes that the exercise of power remove the rights of a minority — let us say, for illustration, women or gay men or jews — there is now nothing to protect that minority’s rights, which in reality are inalienable (they’re either recognized or not — and if they’re not, it is an act of injustice).
This is precisely why the United States is fundamentally, as Benjamin Franklin put it, “a Constitutional Republic”: because your life and your property are yours absolutely. They are not in any way, at any time, subject to vote, nor should they be.
The Constitutional theoreticians and philosophical architects didn’t have any great love for democracy, and they certainly didn’t believe in unlimited majority rule on primary issues, as I will show in a moment, and the reason they didn’t is that they didn’t believe that fundamental rights should be at the mercy of the majority.
Indeed, democracy was also called by some among them “the tyranny of the majority.”
As James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers:
“[Under democracy] there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual.”
And John Adams, a “passionately outspoken enemy of slavery,” as he was described, accurately recognized that democracies “merely grant revocable rights to citizens depending on the whims of the masses, while a republic exists to secure and protect preexisting rights.”
The immortal Benjamin Franklin, who was president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, petitioned the first United States Congress for the “full abolition of slavery, and every species of traffic in slavery” because by right “no human is by nature the property of another.”
Thomas Jefferson himself wrote into the Declaration of Independence a serious and scrupulously reasoned denunciation of the slave trade, which was, however, edited out by congress. In 1784, Jefferson brought a bill before Congress which sought to prohibit slavery in all western territories, but this bill was voted down by a single vote. That’s democracy at work.
Yet there is a certain sense in which the United States is both a democracy and a republic, and the component that makes it a partial democracy is the “procedural selection of personnel,” which refers to electing the officials whose job it is to implement Constitutional principles. But the principles themselves– most fundamentally, the principle of rights – isn’t ever, in theory, subject to vote.
Neither was the selection of personnel ever meant to be the colossal issue that it’s become today.
The fact that it has become so – when, for example, it is decided by vote if you may open your liquor store on Sunday, or when it is decided by vote if you can allow people to drink and smoke in your privately owned establishment – tells you how little our current politicians understand the nature of rights, and how far we’ve come from the original concept.
More frighteningly, perhaps, it tells you how little the voting public understands it.
Inalienable means “that which cannot be taken away, transferred, or made alien” – not by vote, not by force, not by anyone. It any one does so, it is wrong — which is not just coincidentally here the opposite of right.
Right are inalienable in the following sense:
Persons unaccustomed to attach exact meanings to words will say that the fact that a man may be unjustly executed or imprisoned negates this proposition [of inalienable rights]. It does not. The right is with the victim nonetheless; and very literally it cannot be alienated, for alienated means passing into the possession of another. One man cannot enjoy either the life or liberty of another. If he kills ten men he will not thereby live ten lives or ten times as long; nor is he more free if he puts another man in prison. Rights are by definition inalienable: only privileges can be transferred. Even the right to own property cannot be alienated or transferred, though a given item of property can be. If one man’s rights are infringed, no other man obtains them; on the contrary, all men are thereby threatened with a similar injury (Isabel Paterson, God of the Machine, 1943).
The erosion of the critical sense — which largely makes possible the widespread mischaracterization of democracy and rights — is a serious threat to civilization. That the vote has become a weapon of destruction testifies to this.
Though a tyrant may temporarily rule through a minority if this minority holds superior arms and methods of force over the majority, in the long run a minority cannot keep the majority in subservience. The oppressed will rise up in rebellion and cast off the yoke of tyranny. Any system of government that would endure must therefore construct itself upon a system of ideas accepted by the majority.
And that is just one of the many dangers of democracy — i.e vox-populi, i.e. “the tyranny of the majority,” as it has been accurately described: the inalienable rights of the individual are not inalienable after all but can simply be voted away.
Hitler and Mussolini were well-liked by the majority of their people, for a long time.
No matter how silly and nonsensical you or I may find a given idea or ideology, so long as you and I are silent and unwilling (or unable) to counter these ideas and ideologies — relentlessly, thoroughly, forcefully, intellectually counter and refute them — we all remain vulnerable to the spread of these ideologies.
Power corrupts.
This is not partisan. I promise you it’s not.
Political power, aided by a lightning fast, relentless, and global campaign of propaganda, is so horrifyingly dangerous that you must fight against it.