Commentary on Socialism vs Republicanism

In the United States of America, when the People forget They are the government those with aspirations to power and control rule all those who will not or choose not. As it was stated by Mr A.Lincoln, a government of the People, by the People, for the People. When that is forgotten, the People become the slaves of the whims of government.

In Socialism, it is conformity to the social norms as imposed by the masses or majority rule. It is a form of democracy in that majority rules until docility occurs. Docility occurs when the social norm becomes ‘let others do for me, I am only concerned with me.’ When the majority sides in docile form, the minorities vie for power and control. Out of the morass comes the victor of dictatorship, a tyrant is born. The titling of the tyrant does not matter. The form remains the same. The results of tyranny remain the same. Those outside the voice of the tyrant become the ‘abnormal’ and not ‘representative’ of the masses.

In recent Earth history, this social tyranny has taken the form of La Grande Republique, Soviet Socialism, Sino Socialism, and National Socialism. Each one sorted around the theory of being representative of the People; when in fact they were representative of a tyrannous faction of a few.

Republicanism, while founded on the ideals of ‘rule of law’ and ‘the state,’ fairs no better than Socialismwhen the People cede governing themselves.

Throughout history, there have been attempts at representative government and government of equals. It was not until the founding of the United States of America’s Constitution that a government was seen as a vehicle of the People; rather than the People being a vehicle of the government or governors. The US Constitution is only a piece of paper when the People do not read it, do not adhere to it, do not support it. The United States of America’s government is founded on the principle of the People make the government; therefore, the People are required to manage their government. When that principle is forgotten or ceded to others to manage ‘for’ the People, the People no longer have self government and become vassals or slaves of the State.

In the new millenium, 2001AD and beyond, there has been an active resurgence, an affection for, a European styled socialism in the United States. The irony in that is ten years into the new millenium the European nations that were so adoring of Euro-socialism are finding it does not work and are actively looking for alternative government theory that does work. Socialism only works in theory. The individual nature and design of humanity makes socialism impracticable. Human individual approaches to solution finding for their own best interests makes socialism unstable for any length of time. Just take a look at Europe over the last 200 years. Socialism’s failure is quite evident. Monarchies have been replaced with well-intending bureaucracies of self-protecting sycophants to the State. Government that used to be imagined in representation of a royal is now represented in the image of the nation as an entity, The State.

Republicanism was modified in the United States of America to a democratic republicanism; a combination of democracy – individual voice – and republicanism – unified as The State. The United States of America is also different in that every citizen is considered equal. It took a war, rethinking social norms, rights of property, and solid debate to remove the heinous practice of owning people as property, so that now all US citizens are legally equally sovereign. It is that individual sovereignty that makes the United States citizen different and so obnoxious abroad. The US citizen is not beholding to any sovereign or state. The US citizen is one among equals and only beholding to self. It is one of the reasons that ‘Americans’ do not like being told what to do, and why millions around the world try to become US citizens. There is a lot of freedom in individual sovereignty mandated and protected by the government. Without a good Constitutional framework, individual sovereignty would devolve into mass anarchy and ‘The Mob.’

Under US republicanism, some individual sovereignty is ceded to a document of rules, compacts, covenants, and laws that ensure individual sovereignty and cohesive unity in communities of sovereign individuals. That is one of the strengths of this nation. Another is the best and brightest from around Earth who are persecuted or disdained for their individual achievements or desires for individual achievements come to America for individual sovereignty; and succeed. US republicanism requires participation in self-government by its membership; another difference. In pure US republicanism, no one is ‘entitled’ or ‘due’ anything based on birth, lifestyle choices, heredity, social standing, education, or manipulation of power. In practice, the creeping in of old world social order has created entire subsets of individuals who earnestly believe that because they are ‘such and such’ they are entitled to whatever it is they think they are entitled to receive. This is due in large part to misinformation, miseducation, and active psychological, sociological warfare against the United States way of life and lifestyle. (Some will say that last sentence is not true. Research it. It is true.)

US republicanism has become turgid and distorted. The letters, essays, and diaries of the US Founding Fathers are no longer required reading. The US Constitution has become ‘sacred text’ rather than a document of/by/for the People. At the start of the 112th Session of the US House of Representatives (c.2011), an uproar by the opposition party was heard when the order of business was to actually read the US Consitution aloud before starting the work of Congress. You would have thought it was Paul before the Sanhedrin discerting on Christ as Messiah.

When US republicanism is no longer seen as the modis operandi of the US governement, then the question begs to ask, is the USA still a republic?

Socialism has taken from the individually sovereign US citizen the idea that they are individually sovereign. Socialism has replaced that individual sovereignty with the chains of vassalage or ‘duty’ to The State. US socialism would look no different than socialism in any other nation-state: the masses would be managed by the few, a dictatorship of those ‘in power’ would hold at bay those deemed ‘less-than’. Constitutional government would be ceded to social-tyranny back by an empowered military and nationalized police forces.

For US republicanism to work, a reeducation of US citizens must occur. US citizens must be taught or retaught that they are individually sovereign, one among many equals and in many equals one, endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, and required by their birth or naturalization to be participant in their own government. US citizens must be taught or retaught they are responsible and required to be participant in their own success, education, and governance. The rest of the equals – the US citizens – may lend a hand to the needful, but that is not to mean, say, imply, or set as a precedent that the hand should in all ways be extended to those who will not be respondent to their own success, education, or governance.

In short, socialism hides the brute within a guise for the masses. Republicanism hides the brute that can be the State. Only under an active US-styled democratic republicanism can individual sovereignty be truly realized and protected.

Sadly, the US republic has become more social than ecclesiastical or senatoral; less about the individual voice being represented and more about savior politics and ‘the State answers all ills.’ The State is not the savior of man. The State cannot fund or provide for all needs.

In governance, Man is savior of Man. Only by collusion of all equals will Man see good governance. When the People forget they are sovereign they will find they have become slaves to whomever is able to wrest control from the Masses or wrest control from those currently in power, under a guise of being for the Masses.