FireArm Friday - A Republic, If You Can Save It! - #2A
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We are told that when Ben Franklin left the Old Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, an elderly woman asked “What hath ye wrought?” Franklin is reported to have responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Today, with Election Day 2024 looming large ahead of us, I would respond with: “A republic, if you can save it.”
Our Republic is under attack, which means our fundamental rights are in jeopardy.
The Founders of our Republic created a democratically elected Republic rather than a true democracy because they understood and feared a “tyranny by the majority”[mob rule]. Today, I call the modern manifestation of that fear “Blue State Tyranny,” a phenomenon that far too often results from one-party rule where the Democrats are in the majority, as we see today in far too many East Coast, West Coast, and Northern Tier states.
You probably remember the line from Mel Gibson’s character in the movie “The Patriot” where Gibson asks, “What is the difference between one tyrant three thousand miles away and three thousand tyrants one mile away?”
Each state entered the Constitutional Convention as a sovereign entity united under the Articles of Confederation. Each was fearful of creating an oppressive central government, and each sought to retain…