A reader pointed this video at YouTube out at me. It’s a great movie about Americanism and the American system. Watch it. We’ve heard much about ‘democracy’ in recent years. Democracy has become ‘goal’ in itself, the ultimate system. When George W. Bush declared war on Afghanistan and Iraq, he did so in order to “spread democracy.” One democracy in the Middle East would lead to several others.

But is the United States a democracy? No, and for good reason:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7M-7LkvcVw[/youtube]

The U.S. was meant to be a constitutional Republic. The government had to be as limited as possible. The ‘majority’ wasn’t meant to ‘rule’ over the minority, for America’s founding fathers knew that the majority is sensitive to populism. Additionally, Anglo Saxon political thinkers have long pointed out that ‘the majority’ has no problem taking property from the ‘minority.’ The right to own property – that what you earn is yours – stands at the very core of Western societies.

America’s founding fathers knew all that and intended to protect themselves and their children from the weaknesses of every known political system.