{"id":908,"date":"2024-09-13T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/?p=908"},"modified":"2024-09-13T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:18:37","slug":"the-best-two-presidential-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidbitsofaudacity.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/the-best-two-presidential-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Two Presidential Candidates?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The founders were on to something when they left England. They left a situation where they knew it was wrong and couldn\u2019t last. They left a monarchy. They had already seen what a pure democracy did. The mob rules. Two wolves and a sheep decide what\u2019s for dinner. Every night. So pure democracy didn\u2019t work. Monarchy didn\u2019t work either. The rulers corrupted the church and caused an alliance between church and state so powerful that no one could stand against it. This is the reason they sought to keep it separate. To put a check on the government, the church, and ensure freedom to worship without such corruption looking over their heads. If you can\u2019t tell me how<\/em> to worship, then you can\u2019t tell me to<\/em> worship or not to<\/em> worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This leaves them with brainstorming possible solutions. Fortunately, they eventually came to the correct solution. A republic: a representative democracy. Alexander Hamilton stated, \u201cBut a representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislative, executive and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronald Reagan said it best…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, this can only come about if it truly represents the people. And the way this was ensured was to document that those governing only do so by the sovereignty of the consent of the governed. Meaning, the people being governed are those who chose the government. Those who make rules, enforce rules, and execute rules, only do so with the consent of the governed. This is what it means to be in a representative democracy. When people far away from the meeting itself needed to be at the meetings, they would send a representative to speak on their behalf. Whose behalf? The governed, who gave consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This representation keeps both the government and the governed in check. The first check in the constitution was consent. This checked the government. The second check in the constitution was the sovereign being excluded from government. That\u2019s a check on the governed- us. In this manner, neither can have too much power. See, Athens didn\u2019t last nearly as long as Sparta for one main reason, Sparta had divisions of the government and Athens did not. In Athens, the government was the governed and it was all ran by the people entirely. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, enough with the history lesson. What does this have to do with the presidential candidates? Glad you asked. If you were to poll Americans, the overwhelming majority would say that Trump and Harris are NOT the best two options we have for president in this country. Most conservatives and liberals would rather someone less divisive. Someone that will unite the country. But that is definitely not what we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we currently have in our country are two people running for president that the majority of the \u201cgoverned\u201d did not \u201cconsent\u201d to. This is a massive problem. Politicians have routinely been accused of lying. Why? Because they say they are going to represent us in order to get our vote, then once elected, they do the opposite, which is always what they intended on doing anyway. It is rare to see a politician truly vote and lobby on behalf of the people that elected him or her. Recently, there was a group of politicians that got together to discuss the future of the area they served, and one stood up and said, \u201cYou expect us to listen to these people that don\u2019t know as much as we do and just do what they want?\u201d To which the speaker said, \u201cYes. That\u2019s exactly what a representative democracy is.\u201d This happened this year, 2024. Someone had to be reminded publicly that they represent people. They didn\u2019t just get elected to do whatever they wanted. They got elected to represent us. That’s tragic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we don\u2019t begin holding the \u201cgovernment\u201d accountable to the \u201cconsent of the governed\u201d, the government will only get bigger and bigger until it\u2019s too big and we no longer have a republic, but rather an oligarchy or aristocracy. While an aristocracy is labeled as the better of the two because of a lack of corruption, neither are good, because they do not keep each other in check. As it stands, we have two candidates that were not chosen by the “governed”, but by financial elites that believe they know better than the entire country. The \u201cgoverned\u201d must get louder, or they will be silenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay Classy GP!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grainger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The founders were on to something when they left England. They left a situation where they knew it was wrong and couldn\u2019t last. They left a monarchy. They had already seen what a pure democracy did. The mob rules. Two wolves and a sheep decide what\u2019s for dinner. Every night. So pure democracy didn\u2019t work. … <\/p>\n

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