The name of this post is the margin between the Winner of the Iowa Caucuses, Mitt Romney, and the First Runner Up, Rick Santorum: EIGHT VOTES. It doesn’t get much closer than that, folks, and with a margin of only 8 votes, the knee-jerk reaction is assume that the Momentum of the Santorum Campaign may [...]
I’d like to take a few moments to set the record straight about something: Just because I am a Conservative does not mean that I am a “Warmonger.” I am, in fact, pretty much opposed to almost every kind of war there is. The war on drugs: I’m generally against it. The “War on Poverty:” [...]
As the threat of Revolution in the Middle east continues to grow, let’s take a closer look at the Revolutionary History of: The United States!
With the unrest in the Middle East, our world faces the very real threat of Revolution. Will History Repeat Itself? Our Second Lesson: Cuba!
With the unrest in the Middle East, our world faces the very real threat of Revolution. What does history tell us about Revolutions? Today’s Lesson: Russia!
The basis for the National Popular Vote argument is the position that everyone should have an equal vote. This concept is generally considered “Democracy;” however, as James Madison described it in Federalist Paper #10, a Democracy is “a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble to administer the government in person.” It requires that EVERY PERSON WITH A VOTE must gather and CAST THEIR VOTE each and every time an issue needs to be decided. To assume that the “One Person One Vote” argument holds any validity whatsoever, we must also assume that, at the very least, a majority of the population will, in fact, cast their votes. Guess what? That doesn’t tend to be the case.
It seems like the battle cry of Democracy: “One Person, One Vote.” And it certainly sounds like a concept that should protect the Freedom and Liberty of a population, something that I totally support. Unfortunately, there’s a problem with the concept, and the problem, oddly enough, is Democracy.
The quote that inspired this is Benjamin Franklin’s line, “Democracy is Two Wolves and a Lamb voting on what to have for Lunch. Liberty is a Well-Armed Lamb contesting the vote!” But I wonder what Benjamin Franklin would say about other the other forms of Government and Philosophy that are currently being promoted as alternatives to our own. Here’s what I think he’d say:
