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Ron Paul Liberty Report

Democracy: No Friend Of Liberty, But An Ally of Tyranny

Ron Paul Liberty Report

Ron Paul Liberty Report

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4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

“Our Democracy” has reached a point where both sides in the upcoming presidential election are claiming that freedom will end if the other side wins. If that were really true, it certainly makes clear that "our democracy" has some serious problems. But where did all this “our democracy” stuff come from anyway? The word “democracy” is nowhere to be found in the Declaration Of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, or U.S. Constitution. Democracy has existed for thousands of years. Why did America’s Founders explicitly keep it out of our founding documents?

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.

0:04.0

With us today we have Chris Rosini, our co-host.

0:07.1

Chris, good to have you with us today.

0:09.5

Great to be with you again, Dr. Paul.

0:11.2

Good. We're going to talk about the presidential elections, the philosophy behind what's going

0:16.5

on and why people are saying such things.

0:19.5

You know, we're going to be talking about, you know, the fact that people are saying democracies could end if the right person is not

0:28.9

elected, you know, this go around and I can't think it when I first heard that you know I sort of kidding

0:36.4

and he said well that's good news isn't it democracy man the founders hated

0:40.9

democracy and this is This is pretty good. You know,

0:45.4

De Tocquille didn't like it. He studied

0:48.2

Americans democracy and American system in the 19th century

0:52.2

thoroughly, and his conclusion was, you know, that it was a

0:55.8

did, he, if he did watch out, you're going to have the dictatorship of democracy. And of course, we're there now the majority rule the majority is a dictatorship and I think

1:09.7

the point we want to try to make today is it's even worse than we thought we would

1:14.4

maybe maybe that one time had hoped one party would be more thoroughly you know

1:21.5

in understanding of what one side stands for you know in understanding of what one side stands for you know

1:25.0

understanding of the liberty and limited government versus the other

1:28.7

side you're wanting more and bigger government and dictatorship of a

1:32.3

majority but now bigger government and dictatorship of a majority.

1:33.5

But now, Chris, it looks like, you know,

1:37.1

there may be some bipartisanship here.

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