Tammy’s Reviews > Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution > Status Update

“Citizens require an identity beyond the government if there are to be expected to challenge the government. Dependency not only Rob citizens of their independence, but it can provide a dependency and how individuals view themselves.“

I’m trying to give the benefit of the doubt to this author because it uses democracy interchangeably with republic. But I’m finding their parts that just don’t lineup. For example, “…, enabling act passed by Congress specified that the state constitution must embrace representative government…”. That is incorrect. It is republican government not representative.

A democracy, in its pure form, is the direct troll of many. It is also one of the most dangerous forms of government.

“Democracy is a term that is widely misused, particularly in the United States, as any political system where citizens control the government exercise a right of self determination. It is local use that is so common that most of us no longer raised tedious objections that the United States is not a democracy.”

“It is a story played out over and over again in history as ambition becomes activism, activism becomes extremism, and extremism becomes authoritarianism. Call it the Saturn gene. We are all Saturn’s children with an inherent impulse that rest with each of us: the capacity of all mortals to become monsters.”