/liberty/ - Liberty

Wouldn't democracy and populism go hand in hand to create mob rule?

>>71009

Yeah, but the most prevalent narrative is that (right-wing) populism is endangering democracy. But the way I see it, populism merely means that you don't follow a certain ideology and acton principle but rather you pick whatever recent topics you think are important and then base your politics on that. Which is entirely in line with modern democracy.

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>>71010

I think von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was spot on when he said that ochlocracy (which populism is) tends to abolish itself, and then monarchy returns with a vengeance, not as a loving father of the nation, but as a Kronos who devours his children.

>>71008

>And why is democracy a holy cow that nobody should be able to question?

It's been predominant for a century now and had a strong hold since the French Revolution, but my guess is that it became that holy cow somewhere around the First World War, when monarchy was abolished in Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary.

It should be surprising because many Founding Fathers rejected democracy, and well known thinkers like Lord Acton and de Tocqueville were very skeptical of it. So was Herman Melville, and many, many others. I still know where to find that list, but those names should be enough to make my point.

There's a booklet, The City of Man, that seems religious in its defense of democracy. And Rudolph Rummel treated the democratic mechanism as a deus ex machina in his Never Again series.

>>71008

define populism

>>71008

Democracy is Cancer

Republicanism is not.

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>>71008

Democracy is bad and unconstitutional

>>71111

>unconstitutional

eggsplain

>>71114

>rule of law

>rule of the people

these are different and contrary ideas

>>71118

ok

so what was intended system of the founding fathers for the usa?

>>71131

Republicanism you faggot. How do you not know this?

>>71140

no democracy even on local level?

sorry im not a burger

>>71131

Constitutional Republic. The idea was for the constitution to be the real ruling power, and for the government to be made up entirely of ministers whose role was to uphold the constitution.

>>71194

>rule by a document

I'm not that knowledgeable about the design process of the Constitution, but surely they must have considered that this is effectively a cession of power to "whoever decides what the Constitution means".

>>71195

No, rule of law. The document merely codifies the law.

>>71196

>rule of law

How does the US keep managing to pass laws that are unconstitutional, depending on who you ask?

>>71197

(((they))) took over

>>71198

Right, that's sort of the problem with an abstract concept like rule of law as codified by the Constitution, isn't it? Jewish expulsion would be ruled unconstitutional by almost any judge.