“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” —Joseph Story (1833)

This week, we celebrate the 248th anniversary of our Declaration of American Independence. It’s a good week, like every week, to highlight the stark difference in the Republican principles of American Liberty versus the tyranny of the socialist Democrats’ “democracy.”

Joe Biden and his leftist cadres, including most notably, Kamala Harris, have built his whole campaign on saving our nation from the “threat to democracy,” which is code for “the threat of Donald Trump.” The proliferation of Biden’s “democracy” rhetoric is both very deliberate in its obfuscation of the fact we are a Republic, not a democracy, and reveals the real threats to the Liberty enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution — Joe Biden and his leftist Demo cadres.

As I noted recently regarding a Biden campaign ad using Marine gravesites as props to propagate a thoroughly debunked lie about Trump: “When Biden frequently asks, ‘Is democracy still America’s sacred cause,’ by ‘sacred cause’ he is referencing the state as the Demos’ deity. When he autocratically demands that you ‘support democracy,’ he means the statist authoritarian rule of democratic socialism.”

The Biden/Harris regime regime theme of “democracy” is the antithesis of our Republic and American Liberty. And in that context, in fact, Donald Trump is an enormous existential threat to Biden’s statist authoritarian “democracy.”

Before going deeper into his “democracy” abyss, for context in honor of Independence Day, let’s consider our nation’s legacy of Liberty.

The birth of American Liberty and the Republic that sustains it began with the shots fired on the first Patriots’ Day, April 19, 1775, at Lexington and Concord. That opening volley of the Revolutionary War was fired against occupying Royal soldiers who had been sent to confiscate arms from the people.

Our Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4, 1776, at great peril to the signers, listed the justifications for the Revolutionary War, further asserting that the “Rights of Man” were endowed by our Creator, not by the state. It elegantly asserts, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

On November 15, 1777, our Founders set forth the Articles of Confederation to provide continuity between the states. However, after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War in 1783, the Founders determined the terms of the Confederation did not adequately create a firm union between the states.

In 1785, representatives of the states met to begin consideration of how to establish a lasting alliance between the states with the formation of a new national governing compact. In 1786, delegates were elected for a proposed Constitutional Convention, and after great deliberation, on September 17, 1787, the Rights of Man enumerated in our Declaration of Independence, and the “firm league of friendship” between the states as set forth by the Articles of Confederation, were incorporated in a new pact between the states, our Constitution.

Ratified in June 1788, the Constitution established a Republic, irrevocably enshrining Rule of Law (Liberty) over the rule of men (tyranny). Notably, the White House posting regarding the history of our Constitution makes no reference to “democracy.”

Our Constitution is the longest surviving charter of government in history, and the opening words of its Preamble, “We the People of the United States,” affirm that the United States government exists to serve its citizens, not the other way around.

However, regarding the supremacy of the Declaration’s enumerations and the Constitution as subordinate guidance, on the occasion of the Declaration’s 50th anniversary, James Madison, our Constitution’s principal author, wrote to the Declaration’s principal author, Thomas Jefferson, “On the distinctive principles of the Government … of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in … The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.”

So, about all that “democracy” blather…

Recall Biden’s attempt to quote the Declaration of Independence before his leftist lemmings elected him in 2020: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by — g'oh — you know — you know, the thing.”

“You know, the thing”? That’s not an “attempt,” that’s contempt.

Yes, Biden’s record of gaffes is as long as his record of pathological lies, but this was no gaffe — this was the latest example of a long record of contempt for our Republic. And from a self-proclaimed “professor of constitutional law” whom I am ashamed to say received his law degree from my graduate school alma mater, Syracuse University. However, unlike Biden a few decades earlier, I never cheated, and my GPA placed me at the opposite end of the curve from Biden’s rank of 76th in his graduating class of ‘85. A dullard buffoon he was then, and that was 55 years ago.

After Biden’s epic debate implosion last week, having lied his way into a long list of fact-checks and calls for candidacy withdrawal, even from his most adoring Leftmedia talkingheads and scribes, he reemerged in a controlled setting this week to issue his latest “democracy” rhetoric.

As our Douglas Andrews noted regarding the Demos’ hyperbolic apoplexy over the Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling on Monday: “Joe Biden mumbled in via teleprompter, past his bedtime, sporting a spray-on tan and having ingested enough drugs to seem less enfeebled. He said the High Court had done ‘a terrible disservice,’ adding, ‘The American people will have to render a judgment about Donald Trump’s behavior. The American people must decide whether Trump’s assault on our democracy on January 6 makes him unfit for public office.’”

Biden then said he concurred with Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Trump-deranged dissent: “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” Biden then closed, saying, “May God help preserve our democracy.”

Expect to hear similar fallacious assertions about “democracy” ad nauseam in the coming months — before the Democratic Convention delegates remove Biden. (Yes, I am still betting on that removal, though caveat emptor: Biden will be the easiest mark for Trump.)

Back when Biden was Barack Obama’s veep, the ever-erudite Walter E. Williams offered these timeless words on “democracy”: “The founders knew that a democracy would lead to the same kind of tyranny the colonies suffered under King George III. Our founders intended for us to have a republican form of limited government. … The word democracy appears in neither of our founding documents: our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.”

Of course, our Constitution’s Article II, Section 4 clearly notes: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…” As James Madison noted in Federalist No. 10: “Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

In 1775, at the dawn of American Independence, John Adams wrote, “They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” In 1776, he wrote, “There is no good government but what is republican.”

As Benjamin Franklin famously said at the conclusion of the constitutional convention, upon being asked what form of government it created: “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

But Biden and his cadres hate being reminded that we’re a Republic, not a statist authoritarian democracy. And they are counting on their dumbed-down Gen Y and Gen Z supporters to buy into their “democracy” ruse.

Thus far, it is working — Biden gets the highest marks from his low-info voters on the issue of protecting the “future of democracy,” though some political analysts believe that rhetoric may backfire. Indeed, it may already be backfiring. A recent Washington Post poll indicates that in the crucial swing states, Trump is more trusted than Biden to protect the nation against “threats to democracy.”

Moreover, CNN’s Scott Jennings, after an ABC softball post-debate interview with Biden, says: “The entire thesis of the campaign was ‘democracy’ is on the ballot… And I heard Joe Biden admit that it’s all just a facade, that it’s all just a talking point.” Well of course it is, but it is a convincing talking point to rally his dullard supporters.

To be clear, Biden and Harris and their Demo cadres are the “greatest threat to democracy,” and his diversionary pretense that his opponents are the threat, falls squarely into the BIG Lie category. The irrevocable terminus of their cycle of democracy is fatal to the Liberty ensured by our Republic.

To reinforce this distinction, Donald Trump should remind Americans of the difference between a Republic versus democracy, American Liberty versus tyranny, at every campaign rally.

On sustaining our Legacy of Liberty, Ronald Reagan declared: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

That is our charge.

Finally, a few closing thoughts from the author of our Declaration of Independence:

“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.” —Thomas Jefferson (1775)

And a word of encouragement from George Washington: “Our cause is noble, it is the cause of all mankind.”

Fellow Patriots: Today, I ask for your assistance to battle those who seek to disarm The Patriot Post’s venerable voice for Liberty. We face a David-and-Goliath matchup every day on the battlefield for the heart and soul of our nation, relentlessly pursued by the political and media enemies of Liberty aligned against us. Please take one minute and support our 2024 Independence Day Campaign.

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776

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