By Lex Greene
July 18, 2024
Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat it…
I have written numerous times now that the 2024 U.S. Elections will represent a final opportunity for the American people to turn our country away from evil and bondage before the clock runs out on our Constitutional Representative Republic. It will be one of two things when the smoke clears and the dust settles this fall, and the American people will decide. It will be reformed, or it will be gone!
The USA turned 248-years old on July 4, 2024, 48-years past the average life cycle of known democracies throughout history. Throughout history, democracies have come and gone, and always for the same reasons… No people in history have ever been able to break the life and death cycle of a democracy, which is exactly why our nation’s Founders rejected the formation of a democracy and guaranteed every State in the union and every citizen “a republican form of government.”
Tytler’s Cycle captured the historical life and death of democracies with great precision. Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee FRSE (15 October 1747 – 5 January 1813) was a Scottish advocate, judge, writer, and historian who was a Professor of Universal History and of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh.
Put in simple terms, one thing always leads to another.
As Tytler explained through his many lectures and commentaries on the subject, Tytler believed that a “pure democracy” is a CHIMERA, a fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.
Tytler explained in grave detail why democracies always fail in relatively short time frames…
In discussing the Athenian democracy, after noting that a great number of the population were actually enslaved, he went on to say, “Nor were the superior classes in the actual enjoyment of a rational liberty and independence. They were perpetually divided into factions, which servilely ranked themselves under the banners of the contending demagogues; and these maintained their influence over their partisans by the most shameful corruption and bribery, of which the means were supplied alone by the plunder of the public money”.
Tytler further wrote, “The people flatter themselves that they have the sovereign power. These are, in fact, words without meaning. It is true they elected governors; but how are these elections brought about? In every instance of election by the mass of a people—through the influence of those governors themselves, and by means the most opposite to a free and disinterested choice, by the basest corruption and bribery. But those governors once selected, where is the boasted freedom of the people? They must submit to their rule and control, with the same abandonment of their natural liberty, the freedom of their will, and the command of their actions, as if they were under the rule of a monarch”
The simple fact is, throughout human history, no government has ever been trustworthy, always seeking increasing power over their people, gaining total control over those who put them in power, and those who granted them any authority at all.
In the USA, our government exists solely as a result of the U.S. Constitution. Therefore, if the Constitution is no longer in force or effect, then government has no right to exist at all.
Even in the case of the once great United States of America, born in 1776 under the authority of the Laws of Nature and of Natures God, endowed by a Creator with fundamental inalienable Rights and guaranteed a republican form of government, governed by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the government would soon become all-powerful and destructive of its purpose.
In its original form, the U.S. Federal government was to be an almost powerless body with limited authority over a very limited number of duties, as three co-equal branches with divided individual duties and authorities, each deriving their just power from the consent of the governed.
- ARTICLE I BRANCH – with sole lawmaking authority, limited to laws that were “in furtherance thereof,” and not in violation of the inalienable Rights of the governed.
- ARTICLE II BRANCH – assigned the authority to execute the interests of the governed under the laws of the nation, constitutionally adopted by Congress.
- ARTICLE III BRANCH – to provide equal justice for all under the laws adopted by Congress, in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Our representative system in its original form, of, by and for the people, was designed to provide a maximum degree of individual freedom, liberty and justice for all, and a strictly limited authority of government.
But that was 248-years ago…
Today, our federal government functions as a despotic body independent of the people, tyrannical in nature towards the people, wherein Congress has abdicated its sole lawmaking authority to the Oval Office in the form of unconstitutional Executive Orders, and the Judicial branch in the form of British Common Law of procedures, practices, and precedents, now fraudulently referred to as “case law.”
Ever since the United States Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803), establishing the principle of judicial review, our courts have assumed the authority to make laws via mere court opinions. That’s 221 years ago now, and law schools have not taught true Constitutional Law in almost a hundred years.
Despite a bloody revolution fought to escape the clutches of England and British Common Law rule over our people in 1776, the USA fell back under British Common Law rule a short 27-years later in Marbury v. Madison by unanimous decision of the court in response to a Writ of Mandamus, written by Chief Justice John Marshall.
As has been the case throughout human history, it truly took no time at all for the newly formed government of the United States to seize control over the people via an unconstitutional authority of the 3rd Branch, to allegedly make law. The court is an unelected and unaccountable body of nine partisan political appointees allowed to serve a lifetime on the court, without any form of accountability.
That event opened the door for the government as a whole to seize unbridled power over the people, beginning the process of Tytler’s Cycle of destruction that we all sense today. We are a nation in distress, on the brink of extinction, simply because the government has done what governments always do, and the people seem none the wiser.
While our society has been purposefully divided into competing factions, pitted against one another, dumbed-down via government-controlled education systems, and misled by an equally corrupt mass media propaganda machine, focused on false narratives of partisan fear-mongers, Tytler’s Cycle comes into vivid focus.
Due entirely to the actions of our government and the ignorance and apathy of our people, the USA enters the 2024 election cycle somewhere in the apathy and dependence stage of Tytler’s wheel of self-destruction.
While democrats divide the nation and pit Americans against one another to “save their democracy,” a Karl Marx version of self-destruction, Americans must unify to save our Constitutional Representative Republic, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Quite literally, everything hangs in the balance…
As we head towards the polls again, we will have one last opportunity to peacefully turn the tide and reform our country back into a bastion of freedom, liberty and justice for all, and reinstate the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as the supreme law of our land.
There’s no such thing as a perfect person, or any perfect politician.
But sometimes in history, events and circumstances of the times, will cause a leader to rise to the occasion, making them a better person than they would otherwise be. Sometimes, it will also cause the people to set aside petty personal agendas and divisions, to unify behind a cause far greater than themselves.
Such times can even cause the issue of Election Integrity to take priority over personal agendas…
The 2024 election is just such a time… and the people will determine the outcome. A close look at Tytler’s Cycle shows exactly what the people must do to avoid the next stage, bondage.
Americans can, if only they will.
Tytler dismisses the more optimistic vision of democracy by commentators such as Montesquieu as “nothing better than an Utopian theory, a splendid chimera, descriptive of a state of society that never did, and never could exist; a republic not of men, but of angels”, for “While man is being instigated by the love of power—a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the inferior animals—he will seek personal superiority in preference to every matter of a general concern”.
Unique only in the USA, is one very important word and document…the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other examples of democratic failures throughout history, the U.S. Constitution provides a unique escape from Tytler’s Cycle, because government has no authority without or beyond the U.S. Constitution. It cannot do whatever it wants, unless the people allow it.
The only difference as it pertains to Tytler’s assessment is the U.S. Constitution, so long as our government cannot get away with unconstitutional acts!
If you didn’t learn anything else by reading this piece today, please learn this…
If we don’t save each other, here and now, we cannot save ourselves, ever!
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