How did we get from a Constitutional Republic to a Democracy, if not by way of the mainstream media ??
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"Moreover, the constitutionally provided 'separation of powers' makes no difference in this regard. Two or even three wrongs do not make a right. To the contrary, they lead to the proliferation, accumulation, reinforcement, and aggravation of error. Legislators cannot impose their will on their hapless subjects without the cooperation of the president as the head of the executive branch of government, and the president in turn will use his position and the resources at his disposal to influence legislators and legislation. And although the Supreme Court may disagree with particular acts of Congress or the president, Supreme Court judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate and remain dependent on them for funding. As an integral part of the institution of government, they have no interest in limiting but every interest in expanding the government's, and hence their own, power." - Hans-Hermann Hoppe, ***Democracy: The God That Failed*** (2001) p. 276-277
Thinking Democracy, coupled with capitalism devoid of an actual free press was a rouse from its start.
More over that it was Congress that's failed us and the Constitution in its role within the constitutional republic.
Ai overview points to factors such as "polarization, institutional weaknesses, and a perceived decline in its authority relative to the executive branch. Other analyses and contrasting views highlight the strengths of the constitutional system, point to cyclical fluctuations in congressional approval, or emphasize the complexity of governance in a diverse nation."
I'm not certain they weren't always bought and paid for and tolerated by 'we the people', as they are today.
in a Democratic welfare State owned by its State employees (and not its protection customers), an overwhelming number of individual citizens are enticed into becoming rubber-stamping "pseudo-employees" who don't show up to work but are paid handouts and subsidies in exchange for tacitly approving everything the State does, including constantly expand and raising costs (after all, 'government costs' are employee wages, and employees are incentivized to increase their wages) by taxing wealth and debasing it to the benefit of State coffers and employee/pseudoemployee salaries.
the directly-taxed producers of wealth are too numerous and disorganized to resist the theft that is approved by their pseudoemployee neighbors.
an extremely well-resourced and comptent individual or small collective can simply escape this or negotiate to their benefit (think Elon), but the mass of medium-resouce, no-handout-receiving wealth producers sit in the negative sweet spot for State harvest via "democratic" rule making.
(Bitcoiners may yet escape this if they're smart and recognize their position in time)
Nothing radicalized me more than working for the government, the better work I did the more I was punished for "making them look bad" it is astonishing how mismanaged it is. Pseudoemployees is a fantastic term for those folks who stay looking busy shuffling paperwork but cannot actually do math 🙄
Pseudoemployees are worse than that: they're non-government-employee voting citizens. They're paid with subsidies and various other forms of welfare, and in exchange they keep their "pseudo-employer" in business appropriating property from everyone else.
Ah I see, thank you for clarifying!
Is it possible or even likely, that this "extremely well-resourced and competent individual or small collective can simply escape this or negotiate to their benefit (think Elon)," was always the case, including Nation states, fraternities and religious organizations of course?
Absolutely! It was basically _only_ the case in history. Lords, bishops, fief rulers, merchants - wannabe rulers had to deal with these high-agency individuals who were much harder to extract from and had a much easier time migrating to a friendlier protection provider. Its only the modern democratic welfare state(post-1700s) that directly taxes enormous masses, much to its benefit.
Public Education drills the "democracy" lie into everyone's head at an early age.
The mainstream propaganda media reinforces that indoctrination.
The Democratic Current
From Demos to Kratos: A Topological Atlas of Economic Flow := https://beyondturbulence.blogspot.com/p/from-demos-to-kratos-topological-atlas.html?m=1
Constitutional democracy and republic are not mutually exclusive.
Republic means no monarchy (king queen etc.)
Constitutional means the countries law is based on a constitution.
And democracy means that citizens either elect their own leaders (representative democracy) or vote directly on policy themselves (direct democracy)
But USA is none of these things.
The constitution is ignored, the elections are rigged, and the politicians act like nobility
Agreed !