Watch out for mob rule.

Raise you hands if you know that the United States of America was not made to be a "true" democracy.  No sirree, we are not.  The United States Constitution sets us up to be a democratic republic.

For those who didn't pay attention in government class, a republic is governed by a constitution.  Our republic is governed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

This is our "master" document. We are a land of law.  Our laws, once set, stand alone.  No individual stands above the law.  No group stands above the law.

A "true" democracy is the majority rules.  Period.  if you get your gang to put up enough votes against the other gang and your gang has more votes, you win.  The laws change with every gang that ends up with more voting members.

We see this enacted everyday by the contests between the Republicans and Democrats who keep trying to gain enough members to get the most votes.

Thankfully, the law of our land, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, isn't so easily changed as by a simple mob vote.  Otherwise, our country would have ended up down the tubes long before now.

Why is that? Because at it's core, the most basic principles of our Constitution are spelled out to protect the individual American.

Did you ever read the Constitution?  Did you notice how often it uses the word "person"?  Take a look sometime and you will see that in every case, the wording is directed to effectively identify individual person's rights and abilities within the law.  Do you know why?  Because the Constitution recognized that we are all individual people here, not a collective.


The Constitution begins with the phrase "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union..."  What is a union, you ask?  By definition a union is "a number of persons, states, etc., joined or associated together for some common purpose". (highlighting is my own).

We are individual persons who, on occasion, come together for the purpose of making sure our interests are represented and our votes are counted.


After this coming together, we go back on our separate ways.  We go back to our own individual lives, making our own choices.


See, we "come together"  not stay bonded together.  Not meld with each other.  We don't give up our individuality in order to share a common experience.


Our Constitution sees everyone under it as individuals sharing a common space and provides a framework so that we can continue with our lives as individuals but keeping respect to the fact that no one individual is entitled to more power or permission than any other individual.

One thing that those who would try to rule over others will say to try to be persuasive is that we must be willing to sacrifice for "The Greater Good".

Just what is this "Greater Good" though?  By using that term, they refer to the whole of the group of us as opposed to the one.  Ever heard the phrase "but we're doing it for the kids..."?  They try to make you see yourself not as an individual but as already being "one of us", or part of the group and the only way to save yourself is to save the whole group.

Don't get me wrong, as Americans we do have at least one thing in common that is worth banding together to protect.  The Constitution itself.

Our Constitution has already been embattled by gangs and mobs calling themselves parties who try to change the way things work in or country for "their team".

They use fraudulent tricks, misdirection and any other un-ethical tools, yet still "legal" at hand to "interpret" the meaning of the Constitution so as to convince others their behavior is condoned.

What is an "interpretation" anyway?  it's enough people within the legal and government system who agree that one thing means or leads to another.  Get enough members of a gang to have the most votes and you have successfully re-interpreted something in the Constitution.

We are a nation of independent people, as determined by the Constitution of the United States of America.  Every time you give in and become just another member of a gang, a mob or a "party", you give that mob more authority over yourself and sadly, with enough mob votes, authority over others who did not want or need the gangs representation or control over their lives.

You who support and condone an America where a few should rule over the many, regardless of your excuse, are cowards and fascists. 

You who work so that the many should rule over the few are just as bad.  You are like the "Borg" of science fiction, where the individual doesn't exist except as cannon fodder for the whole.

I ask you to put aside false nationalism, lay down your party membership and your efforts to rule in the guise of the "Greater Good".

Stand on your own and think for yourself.  Vote with your own one vote at every opportunity, based on each issue as it presents itself.