Modern democracy

[Gnug215]

Re: Modern democracy

Then let's hope the alternative media gets more popular.

Lots of people are doing it now on YouTube and some already have 6 figure subs. That includes people from all political sides.

I really hate it when the mainstream media crudely dismisses them as "fake news" as if they never put out deliberate disinformation.

I would even go as far as to say you shouldn't automatically dismiss more conspiratorial sites like Infowars either. Sure there's a lot of crazy stuff there, but you also get video footage sometimes and you can't refute that. Doesn't matter if Infowars filmed it. Also they tend to be correct on the Constitution. Despite all his crazy ranting, Alex Jones was 100% correct on the 2nd amendment.

I'm not sure how to say this without sounding provocative, but this really rings false and wildly ironic coming from anywhere on the Right (not you in particular).
Sure, Left wing media has plenty of issues with bias, sometimes not so openly, which some might prefer, but the Right seems to have pretty much invented both fake news, AND the labelling of actual, non-fake news as "fake news". Thanks for THAT contribution to society, Trump.
Beyond that, you have a category that basically goes way past fake news, and that's... insane news, or whatever one would call it. I would definitely lump Infowards in there. Alex Jones clearly, clearly has actual mental issues, and as the default position, I would never trust ANYthing he has to say.
Something coming from him, say, like a raw video of something, might warrant further investigation, but not taken as fact. I suppose the one positive thing one could say about him, is that at least he's open with his position and biases.
However, that just means he shouldn't be considered a news organization, but an opinion outlet.

I know that you can't wash your hands clean in other people's dirt, but I honestly do think these problems are worse on the Right.

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

Re: Modern democracy

Beyond that, you have a category that basically goes way past fake news, and that's... insane news, or whatever one would call it. I would definitely lump Infowards in there. Alex Jones clearly, clearly has actual mental issues, and as the default position, I would never trust ANYthing he has to say.
Something coming from him, say, like a raw video of something, might warrant further investigation, but not taken as fact. I suppose the one positive thing one could say about him, is that at least he's open with his position and biases.
However, that just means he shouldn't be considered a news organization, but an opinion outlet.

A broken clock is correct twice-a-day.

 

[Gnug215]

Re: Modern democracy

Beyond that, you have a category that basically goes way past fake news, and that's... insane news, or whatever one would call it. I would definitely lump Infowards in there. Alex Jones clearly, clearly has actual mental issues, and as the default position, I would never trust ANYthing he has to say.
Something coming from him, say, like a raw video of something, might warrant further investigation, but not taken as fact. I suppose the one positive thing one could say about him, is that at least he's open with his position and biases.
However, that just means he shouldn't be considered a news organization, but an opinion outlet.

A broken clock is correct twice-a-day.

Yes, I could have mentioned that one, but then, even when that clock is right, you can't really use it because you can't know that it's right, other than checking a clock that you know is right.

 

[he_who_is_nobody]

Re: Modern democracy

A broken clock is correct twice-a-day.

Yes, I could have mentioned that one, but then, even when that clock is right, you can't really use it because you can't know that it's right, other than checking a clock that you know is right.

:lol:

That is exactly the point of that phrase. Basically, Jones/the clock are broken, they being right a few times does not change the fact that they are broken from the start.

 

[Myrtonos]

Re: Modern democracy

In a democracy with elections, no source (such as the bible) or authority (such as God) is higher than the aggregate of those eligible to vote on who gets the rule a jurisdiction.

 

[The World Teacher]

Re: Modern democracy

"Modern democracy" always needs a rethink, and not because of the reasons you stated.

22. ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNANCES:

COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM is intrinsically evil, because it reduces individual citizens to utilities, who, in practice, are used to support the ruling elite, who are invariably despotic scoundrels, and very far from ideal leaders (i.e. compassionate and righteous monarchs). Those citizens who display talent in business or the arts are either oppressed, or their talents are coercively utilized by the corrupt state. Wealth is literally stolen from the rich. Spiritual teachings (“dharma”, in Sanskrit) are repressed by the irreligious and illegitimate government.


DEMOCRACY is evil, because, just as the rabble favoured the murderous Barabbas over the good King Jesus, the ignorant masses will invariably vote for the candidate which promises to fulfil their inane desires, rather than one which will enforce the law, and promote a wholesome and just society. Read Chapter 12 for the most authoritative and concise exegesis of law, morality, and ethics, currently available.

Even in the miraculous scenario where the overwhelming majority of the population are holy and righteous citizens, it is still wrong for them to vote for a seemingly-righteous leader. This is because that leader will not be, by definition, a king. As clearly and logically explicated in the previous chapter of this Holy Scripture, MONARCHY is the only lawful form of governance. If an elected ruler is truly righteous, he will not be able to condone the fact that the citizens are paying him to perform a job (which is a working-class role), and that an inordinate amount of time, money and resources are being wasted on political campaigning. Furthermore, an actual ruler/leader does not wimpishly pander to voters - he takes power by (divinely-mandated) force.

The thought of children voting for who will be their parents or teachers, would seem utterly RIDICULOUS to the average person, yet most believe that they are qualified to choose their own ruler. They are most assuredly not. Just as the typical child fails to understand that a piece of sweet, juicy, healthy, delicious fruit is more beneficial to them than a cone of pus-infested, fattening, diabetes-inducing ice-cream, so too can the uneducated proletariat not understand that they are unqualified to choose their own leader, even after it is logically explained to them (as it is in this chapter, as well as the previous chapter). And by “uneducated”, it is meant misguided in the realities of life and in righteous living (“dharma”, in Sanskrit), not in facts and figures or in technical training.
To put it frankly, democracy is rule by the “lowest common denominator”.


It should be obvious that ANARCHY can never ever succeed, because even the smallest possible social unit (the nuclear family) requires a dominator. Any family will fall-apart without a strict male household head. In fact, without the husband/father, there is no family, by definition. The English noun “husband” comes from the Old Norse word “hûsbôndi”, meaning “master of the house”.
The same paradigm applies to the extended family, which depends on a strong patriarchal figure (the eldest or most senior male). Likewise with clans, tribes, villages, towns, cities, and nations.

Unfortunately, there are many otherwise-intelligent persons who honestly believe that an ENTIRE country can smoothly run without a leader in place. Any sane person can easily understand that even a nuclear family is unable to function properly without a head of the house, what to speak of a populous nation. The reason for their distrust of any kind of government is due to the corrupt nature of democratic governments, and the adulteration of the monarchy in recent centuries, but if anarchists were to understand that most all “kings/queens” in recent centuries were not even close to being true monarchs, they may change their stance on that inane 'system'.


Most of the problems in human society are directly or indirectly attributable to this relatively modern phenomenon (non-monarchies), since it is the government’s role and sacred DUTY to enforce the law (see Chapter 12).

One of the many sinister characteristics of democracy, socialism, and other evil forms of governance, is the desire for their so-called “leaders” to attempt to control, or at least influence, the private lives of every single citizen. For example, in the wicked, decadent nations in which this holy scripture was composed, The Philippine Islands and The Southland (or 'Australia', as it is known in the Latin tongue), the DEMONIC governments try, and largely succeed, in controlling the rights of parents to properly raise, discipline and punish their children according to their own morals, compulsory vaccination of infants, enforcing feminist ideology, limiting legitimate powers an employer has over his servants, subsidizing animal agriculture, persecuting religious leaders (even to imprisonment and death, believe it or not), and even trying to influence what people eat and wear.

Not that a government shouldn’t control what its citizens wear in public, but it should ensure that they are MODESTLY dressed, according to the guidelines outlined in Chapter 28, which is hardly the case in Australia, the Philippines, and similar nations. At least ninety-nine per cent of Filipinas, for instance, are transvestinal, despite Philippines pretending to be a religious nation.

Basically, the worst of the non-monarchical governments promote, or at least permit, ALL things contrary to God’s perfect and pure will (or contrary to objective morality, for those who disbelieve in God), such as adultery, fornication, prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, gambling (even running lotteries themselves), illegitimate abortion of poor innocent unborn children, irreligion, drug addiction, disrespect for authority, and advancing materialism and ignorance via a powerful network of institutions of miseducation (so-called “schools, colleges and universities”). Their aim is to produce a population of indoctrinated citizens who have been conditioned to serve the state and its perverse agendas.

Even though non-monarchical leaders are committing a criminal act by ordering the persecution of its citizens, or instigating war on another nation, the police and military personnel who execute their orders are equally (if not MORE) guilty of their dirty deeds. Even if a non-monarchical government punishes a criminal, that in itself is a criminal act, because it has absolutely no authority to do so. That is akin to a baby punishing its mother for theft, when it is actually the role of the infant's father to enact disciplinary action upon the woman in question.

For the past few centuries, most of the earth has been controlled by a CABAL of men comprising of extremely wealthy businessmen (particularly bankers) and so-called religious leaders (those who command a huge following). Ironically, some of these elite businessmen instigate a pseudo-socialist government within their nations, so that they themselves can control the financial system for their selfish goals.

This planet is surely doomed, unless the most pernicious institutions ever known to man (democracy, socialism and communism), are replaced by the ONLY legitimate form of government (monarchy – ideally a holy monarch, though even a mediocre king is preferable to being ruled by an elected official or a sociopathic megalomaniac, who could almost never be a righteous ruler).
Let it be known, however – non-monarchical rule can not and will not endure. Once society has devolved to such a debased level where it can no longer survive intact, the natural-born kings of the earth shall arise and regain their rightful place at the head of each and every nation.
The truth shall surely triumph (“satyam-eva jayate”, in Sanskrit).


“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (AKA Mark Twain),
American writer.


“The only reason why a person has an issue with anyone else’s power, is because they feel powerless”.
Mrs. Teal Swan,
American Spiritual Teacher.