I'm afraid he's right

MICHAEL WALSH: ‘Our Democracy’ Needs a Great Reset.

You know the American Republic is on its last legs when those trying to destroy it consistently refer to it as “our democracy,” which is exactly what it is not and what it was never intended to be. Historically, democracies don’t last long, because they quickly turn into tyrannies after passing through the parasitical stage. Democracy in ancient Greece was hardly what we might call “democracy” today, as voting was restricted males with a stake in the system. No votes for women, slaves, or helots. The young male hoplites of Athens had to complete military training as ephebes to earn their right to vote, and not simply achieve their majority, which was effectively 20; additionally they had to buy their own armor and weapons and be prepared to go to war on practically an annual basis. (Any resemblance between this society and the world of Starship Troopers is entirely intentional.) 

Modern experience has taught us that essentially plebiscitary democracies, in which the "right" to vote is applied indiscriminately, and for which there are no qualifications (in some cases, not even breathing) eventually collapse once the citizenry discover they can vote themselves money without having to work for it. Roman democracy in the days of the Republic was a horse-trading racket which gradually broke down during the civil war between Sulla and Marius into a street thugocracy. Caesar's attempt to yank the Republic back from the brink went down in a hail of knife thrusts on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. Augustus called himself Princeps (first citizen) instead of Emperor (which had been a military honorific) but by the time of Tiberius, the Republic was one in name only and Rome had become an Empire, with a command-and-control centralized leadership and a huge, strangulating bureaucracy that made itself very, very rich.

It’s precisely because the founders of our country had read and knew the history of the western world that they established the United States as a republic and not a democracy, and it’s precisely for the same reason that the communists have worked so hard to erase that history; how else can they dupe the citizens into acceding to the creation of a brave new world?

n.b. Readers with nothing better to do on a rainy day might want to read Anton Scalia’s dissent in Morrison v. Olson, a brilliant exposition of the separation of powers structure of our constitution, and how it (tried to) prevent the mob rule of democracy from overwhelming the rights of the minority. Wikipedia has a decent summary, with a link to the full opinion. I’ll confess to recently rereading the dissent in its entirety, but I’m a dork.

Justice Scalia's dissent[edit]

Opinion[edit]

Justice Scalia, the lone dissenter, said that the law should be struck down because (1) criminal prosecution is an exercise of "purely executive power" and (2) the law deprived the president of "exclusive control" of that power.[9]

In his opinion, Scalia also predicted how the law might be abused in practice, writing, "I fear the Court has permanently encumbered the Republic with an institution that will do it great harm."[10]

Scalia's dissent in Morrison vs. Olson is frequently cited as one of his most memorable opinions, and considered by many to be at the top of the list. Over time Scalia's lone dissent has become far more widely accepted as the correct view, and likely helped lead to the 1999 Congressional vote to scuttle the independent counsel statute.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]