Power to or from the people?

 

Aristotle discussing democracy earlier today

The Congressional hearings concerning the laughably named 'insurrection' in Washington on January 6, 2021 (which have been compared to Pearl Harbour, 9/11, and the American Civil War by deranged Democrats) have featured one word probably used as much as the definite article. This 'attack', we are told by the Pelosi-Schumer political street gang, are 'an attack on democracy'.

Democracy. If I have heard that word once on the American media in the last week, I have heard it a thousand times. I wonder if these chuckleheads know the provenance of the word.

Like so many terms which still make actual sense, it is an Ancient Greek portmanteau word. 'Demos' means 'the people', 'kratos' means 'power'. Democracy implies that power resides with the people. Increasingly, in America and across the West, this is coming to mean power to the right people, the ones who think - and vote - in approved ways,.

It is quite clear that the Democrats (who despise America) are using the Jan 6 detainees as fall guys and gals. Many are still in jail, while the BLM rioters who burned down police stations and actually killed people during the rioting they fomented were mostly released quietly when the media had stopped looking, which was pretty quickly.

The Democrats are even called 'the Democrats', but more and more they wish to remove both First and Second Amendment rights. With every day that passes, power is being drained from ordinary Americans (at least, the ones who have voted the wrong way) like blood from a vampire's victim. I know I bang this drum a lot, but this cannot end well, and there will be blood.

If people fail to hold on to the reins of their nations, those horses will become an increasing menace to their well-being. When ordinary, conservative Americans have no guns and no free speech, it will be much, much too late.

It is time for real Democrats to take control of the chariot.