Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny" video.

  1. Saying we the people somehow gives crooked politicians an out because we put too much blame on ourselves is ridiculous. Man has a fallen nature and no form of government, no matter how well intended or planned out will be truly just because of said nature. Locke understood that and accounted for it in the most practical way in his treatise on the Social Compact. As for our form of indirect democracy as it is called here, it only functions if people take their responsibility as citizens seriously. They used to, at least to a higher degree than they do today, but our system has devolved into reality-TV. Officials don't get removed from office, they get voted off the island, and they get voted off for a variety of reasons by a small portion of the electorate. Too many people are either too cynical, too lazy, or too comfortable to even get involved in the process. So no, I don't buy the argument that putting we the people on the hook somehow lets the crooks off it. The people are the problem, and when there is nowhere left to go, they'll shake their collective fist at their Creator and blame it all on Him. It can't be our fault. And that is when He'll call the game and sort the wheat from the chafe. Do with that what you will. If that offends your secular sensibilities, as the prophet Bob Dylan once said; "It's a hard rains a gonna fall." Ya'll make sure you have a raincoat now, ya hear.
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