From: Tim Conner
Columbus
In reply to John M. Crisp’s column (“The election was a modest victory for democracy”, Dec. 2) and to many readers of his opinions who simply skim over his political assertions, how many times do pundits like Mr. Crisp have to be reminded (if not blatantly schooled) that the U.S. is not a democracy? The “will of the people” has already been established in our Constitution. We live in a constitutional republic. That means, in case you fell asleep in all your government classes, that we live by ‘rule of law’. The law is the constitution. The men who wrote it warned us of democracy many times in many documents.
A democracy is probably the most corruptible form of governance in history. And this has been proven time and again while we blindly adhere to it more and more as it destroys our nation on an equally downhill run. As has been said, although few seem to be listening, democracy is three wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch.
At best, state and federal elections are popularity contests and in the worst case they are won by candidates with the most money in their coffers. Anyone with half of a functioning brain can see this. As for Mr. Crisp’s demand that “Ukraine must win”, George Washington had some good advice about that: “Avoid foreign entanglements”.
So concerning “democracy”, I will quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
