The Death of the American Democracy

The rule of law and governing has been around for nearly as long as the human race has existed.  It began with forms of pagan shamanism and religious dictatorships and evolved into monarchies, the rule of the nobles and land holders and Imperial thrones passed from one strong man to the next.  These traditions of the rule of one or few continued until the ancient Greeks began to conceptualize something different.  Something new and more balanced than before: a rule by the governed.


It was thus that democracy was born, and the people suddenly had a voice.  The ideology and application of democracy was furthered by the Roman Republic, knowing the inherent flaw in democracy was the electorate's inherent right to vote in people who would govern poorly or without knowledge or forethought, sought to place a layer between the population and the government such that the republic is born out of representative democracy.

Unfortunately, the Roman Republic degraded in the face of social degeneration, and eventually collapsed under threat of war into the Roman Empire.  The light of democracy was mostly extinguished for more than a thousand years in the world.

Then England began again to seek to empower the people to stand before the king and ensure that they were not unjustly imprisoned and to guarantee the right to appeal decisions of judgment that the king issued.  These ideas were carried forth by the pioneers and leaders that founded the colonies of England in North America, and developed to fruition with the birth of the great experiment, the United States of America.

This grand experiment has been running now for two hundred year plus, and flaws in even the protected form of democracy are reaping effects now.  The democracy requires that the electorate be thoroughly educated in the history of the country as well as in the contemporary topics in order to function in the most effective manner.

As we progress further into social depravity and marginalized ethics and integrity, we begin to see what happens when the majority becomes uneducated, and the masses vote on what they feel rather than on the knowledge that they should have learned from their parents and from the schools.  When people are rewarded for destructive behavior and when the people who live with honor and integrity are punished, the democratic system has failed and will ultimately decay into oblivion.

Like Thomas Jefferson once said, "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

We must begin to re-educate ourselves, seek honor and integrity, and be willing to work to achieve the greatness that the United States has shown in the past.  If we do not stem the tide of this depravity, then I fear that the death of the American democracy is coming.