‘Democracy’ is one of those words that has multiple hidden meanings (like ‘human rights’ or ‘fascism’) and yet can mean whatever you want it to mean. The word is very appealing in brainwashing propaganda phrases like “fighting for freedom and democracy”.
Here is a compilation on the theme of ‘Democracy’ that I found insightful.
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The best interpretation I found is in “The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy” by Matthew Raphael Johnson (first published 2003 – Third Edition 2010), where he cites the following:
“DEMOCRACY: it is controlled by capitalist ownership and control of the media, grants from tax-free foundations and favoured press coverage for favoured political candidates. Wide franchise to vote is given to the people to make them easier to control by making them think that “the people” are responsible for the inevitable distortions and negative consequences of the policies the super-rich mattoids impose in order to serve their selfish interests. Democracy separates authority from responsibility, this making it virtually impossible for the voters to reform the system. Those in authority (the mattoids) have no responsibility. Those responsible (the politicians) have no authority except that which is lent to them by their controllers.“
Original source:
W. A. Carto. May 20, 2003 in “Populism vs Plutocracy: The Universal Struggle” and cited in ”Publisher’s Note”
The following youtube compilation illustrates this nicely in under two minutes:
But seriously, here is an erudite discussion from a Russian perspective, 1898
· (Lie of Democracy) The great falsehood of our time - Konstantin Pobedonostev (1898)
https://odysee.com/@InvincibleOrthodoxy:3/lie-of-democracy-the-great-falsehood-of:2
(… from the book)
· “Reflections of a Russian statesman" (1898) by Konstantin Pobedonostev
https://archive.org/details/reflectionsofrus00pobeuoft
Pobedonostev is discussed here by Matthew Raphael Johnson (MRJ) …
· Matthew Raphael Johnson discusses Konstantin Pobedonostsev
https://odysee.com/@InvincibleOrthodoxy:3/konstantin-pobedonostsev-matthew-raphael:4
Also from MRJ:
· Matthew Raphael Johnson - The Superiority of Monarchy (versus Oligarchy – where the latter is served by 'Democracy')
https://odysee.com/@InvincibleOrthodoxy:3/the-superiority-of-monarchy-matthew:b
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An interlude:
“Hades shook his head sadly.
“The world has changed so much over the centuries. Empires became republics, princes and princesses became celebrities, and as this thing called democracy caught hold, ordinary people have begun to think that their opinions matter. They do not.
Hades’ face became hard.
‘Here, you will not find democracy. This is a true kingdom. It is my kingdom. My realm. I rule it with absolute power and iron discipline. […] To be the King of the Underworld is to be, if it is required, the man who condemns the entire population of this planet to death. That is my task. That is my duty.”
Matthew Reilly – “The Four Legendary Kingdoms” (Jack West Jr #4)
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And from a Chinese perspective …
· Can the Chinese Communist Party Rule for Another 100 Years? – Eric Li
I wasn’t so impressed with the interviewers but Eric used the forum very well.
I thought Eric’s response that “democracy needs to be measured by outcome not by procedure” was the perfect response as we now know that our [‘Western’] ‘democratic elections’ are completely controlled and corrupt.
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· Why Democracy Leads to Tyranny - ACADEMY OF IDEAS
(Academy of Ideas doesn’t get everything right, particularly about Hitler, but is always worth listening to. See also Colin Jordan source just below.)
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· Democracy Is an Ideal Government for Jewish Influence - Thomas Dalton, Ph.D. – The Occidental Observer
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DEMOCRACY IS WHAT DEMOCRACY DOES
“Democracy claims descent from Ancient Greece whence the word originated, but the truth is that what exists today in its name bears no solid resemblance to its alleged prototype.
The democracy of the days of Plato and Aristotle was a form of government confined to a particular town and surrounding area which constituted a state, and was therefore of the nature of local government with the area and the people so comparatively small as to allow immediate and personal contact between the government and its affairs and the governed.
The direct participation of the people was thus a reality in the Greek city-state where the people were, moreover, an ethnic community so that citizenship was a matter of kinship.
What is called "Democracy'' today stands in stark contrast as a matter of huge units of assorted population nominally represented by members of parties which actually represent particular assortments of interests, the dominant array of which, through a mind-moulding media, particularly television, injects into the public desirable influencing material for the mind-set in view, and excludes what is deemed undesirable in influence for that mind-set.
In the outcome of this mind-moulding the conditioned public then votes as between one or the other variation of the Democratic creed concerning which all the approved parties form a consensus. Performing thus, like Pavlov's dogs with their conditioned reflexes, the public fondly imagines that it does the deciding, whereas it merely registers choice within the latitude allowed by the real rulers who are clandestine dictators.
Democracy is thus the colossal confidence trick of the century. Furthermore, Democracy which is counterfeit at the core, has been embellished by its manipulators into something far more than just a method of government in order to provide maximum power, profit and protection for those manipulators.
It has in interpretation been turned into a whole creed concerned with a multiracial, egalitarian society. What it does, more than what in some respects it claims to stand for, provides the most accurate definition of the Democracy afflicting us. The results of Democracy in Britain today are a teaching profession and educational system which turns out a brainwashed, anarchic, egocentric, ideal lacking, crudely materialist, drug- taking younger generation addicted to a typifying din of decadence known as "pop."
Adults are taken care of to similar effect by the mind controlling media, acting in conjunction with the propaganda and practices of the Democratic political parties. The overall effect of this, in a crime-ravaged, run down vestige of a former world power and vast empire, is a British public which offers no effective resistance to being intruded on and ousted by hordes of Afro-Asians; subjected to an ever extending alien control of British affairs from within and without; and restricted by more and more measures to prevent and penalize opposition to this alienation of their homeland.”
Source:
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Thus
“A Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” – Thomas Jefferson (spurious quote source, but a good meme)
Or, to sum up …
“Gang rape is democracy in action” … Anonymous meme
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“I went to the Parliament whenever I had any time to spare and watched the spectacle silently but attentively. I listened to the debates, as far as they could be understood, and I studied the more or less intelligent features of those ‘elect’ representatives of the various nationalities which composed that motley State. Gradually I formed my own ideas about what I saw.
“A year of such quiet observation was sufficient to transform or completely destroy my former convictions as to the character of this parliamentary institution.
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“Democracy, as practised in Western Europe today, is the forerunner of Marxism. In fact, the latter would not be conceivable without the former. Democracy is the breeding ground in which the bacilli of the Marxist world pest can grow and spread.
“The parliament passes some acts or decree which may have the most devastating consequences, yet nobody bears the responsibility for it.
“This institution is primarily responsible for the crowded inrush of mediocre people into the field of politics. […] The situation will appeal to small minds and will attract them accordingly.”
Source: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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A closing word from Ivan Ilyin
https://odysee.com/@InvincibleOrthodoxy:3/what-is-the-right-to-vote-ivan-ilyin:4
Chinese Democracy
“By far the most interesting fact I hear about the Chinese is one on which we cannot arrive at clearness, but which excites endless curiosity even in the dim state: this namely, that they do attempt to make their Men of Letters their Governors! […] There does seem to be, all over China, a more or less active search everywhere to discover the men of talent that grow up in the young generation. […] The youths who distinguish themselves in the lower school are promoted into favorable stations in the higher, that they may still more distinguish themselves,-forward and forward: it appears to be out of these that the Official Persons, and incipient Governors, are taken.”
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“These are they whom they try first, whether they can govern or not. And surely with the best hope: for they are the men that have already shown intellect. Try them: they have not governed or administered as yet; perhaps they cannot; but there is no doubt they have some Understanding,--without which no man can! Neither is Understanding a tool, as we are too apt to figure; "it is a hand which can handle any tool." Try these men: they are of all others the best worth trying.--Surely there is no kind of government, constitution, revolution, social apparatus or arrangement, that I know of in this world, so promising to one's scientific curiosity as this. The man of intellect at the top of affairs: this is the aim of all constitutions and revolutions, if they have any aim. For the man of true intellect, as I assert and believe always, is the noble-hearted man withal, the true, just, humane and valiant man. Get him for governor, all is got; fail to get him, though you had Constitutions plentiful as blackberries, and a Parliament in every village, there is nothing yet got!—"
That was written in 1840 (published in 1841) by Thomas Carlyle in “Heroes and Hero Worship - all 6 Lectures” - Chapter 5 “Hero as Man of Letters”
Jumping ahead to the present
• “How do Chinese leaders get elected?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twKhCqfjffQ
• Selection and election: How China chooses its leaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgpQxVCekgw
“very much in line with the Confucian system of meritocracy”
Who would have thought, then, that in 1840 Thomas Carlyle was virtually pre-empting the script of the rise to power of President Xi Jinping?
• Xi Jinping: Scholar in a cave - CGTN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGDm_mWtXmU
will it take a collapse of civilization to conclude that this is not “working”?… most just go along to get along, checking the boxes according to their designated tribe… (not that it matters)… getting really scary