Democracy in the widest sense of the word includes any system of government by which the people decide things. A republic is simply indirect democracy. The result of making it indirect is to slightly slow the degradation inherent in the choice to let every citizen — or “stakeholder” — have a voice, and creates a much larger and more persistent ruling class separate from the people.
The very act of pretending the people have an interest and stake in things means the primary form of criminal behavior will be based on deception. While tyrants may use deception to delay negative reaction until after the thing is done, the fundamental nature of democratic assumptions will guarantee deception from start to finish. The notion there is something sacred in the will of the people assumes a level of character in government people which simply does not exist. That we do have a few now and then makes them exceptional, noteworthy. Power and wealth are two edges of the same sword of oppression, and once a man gets hold of the handle, it’s more intoxicating than any drug.
History offers too many consistent examples to refute this. History shows there is no advantage to placing any power in the hands of the governed, because they will inevitably hand it over for all the wrong reasons to all the wrong people. It is an utterly silly basis for deciding anything which matters. All it does is beg for someone to become proficient at manipulating the masses. In our current condition in the West, we have been shaped over several generations to be particularly easy to manipulate. The difference between what we now have and the old “divine right of kings” is a greater share of society is dishonest by necessity.
Thus, to tinge the notion of “consent of the governed” with some mystical holiness is a lie in itself. It guarantees deception will be the fundamental essence of the entire society. Not the sort of “mind your own business” privacy of civility, but this is the outright denial of justly informed decision making. It has never been otherwise in human history. All that pretty talk about earning respect is just noise. The only way anyone can justly hold your respect is when you see their actions first hand, and the results of those actions. When that person can go away, out of your sight, and return with the bacon, you have no way of knowing if it’s even bacon. You have to be there for the slaughtering of the hog, the butchering, and help guard the smokehouse door as a member of a close community. Otherwise, you have no business trusting them, as they go away to become part of another community, one fundamentally based on serving self.
The biblical standard remains: No one has any business under God’s Heaven of governing you unless they are related by marriage or blood. Government is family, and family is government. Any other system is damned. What appears to the Western mind as the random results of birthright is actually protected and guided by God when Noah’s Laws are observed. That does not remove evil patriarchs, but limits the harm they do. Instead, we have the modern world which dissolves households and follows the enticing piping of Satan.
