{"id":15867,"date":"2025-12-03T01:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=15867"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:02:21","slug":"941-democratic-dilemma-is-democracy-a-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/15867","title":{"rendered":"941 – Democratic dilemma: Is democracy just a fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What most fail to realize is that these two views are incompatible.<\/strong> That’s because the principle of ‘consent’ rests on individual rights, while the principle of ‘consensus’ allows for the violation of individual rights.<\/p>\n

These two very different concepts of ‘democracy’ have long been in conflict, resulting in a social condition that no longer seems ‘democratic.’ Consequently, many no longer feel that their governments represent them and they are actually questioning whether or not what most see as ‘democracy’ is a just a fiction.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

One can argue that America is a constitutional republic and not a democracy, but this does not address the reality that it currently operates as neither, given its assumed mandate of protecting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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\nMany voices on the Right have gone into a panic mode trying to resolve the nation’s democratic dilemma<\/strong> by offering many valid observations and insights into the symptoms of the problem. Unfortunately, they have offered few viable solutions to a cure, owing to a fundamental misunderstanding of what has assumed to be ‘democracy’.<\/p>\n

Democracy, like government itself, should be limited<\/strong> in terms of elections and voting; voting should never be allowed to violate or infringe on the individual rights of others – and thereby also on their ability to consent.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Under the principle of ‘majority rule,’ no such limits exist. That’s why understanding democracy in a way that is Just Right first requires abandoning the foolish notion of ‘majority rule’ as a justification for the violation of individual rights.<\/p>\n

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