Do You Think Like Sheep Or Like A Shepherd

To start to realize that what we see is not always what it seems, it's important to ask the right questions. But, in a complicated world such as this, it's the failures to ask the right questions by so many people that are depended upon by the few spinning the stories. As they continue to spin tales and tales of confusion, chaos, and madness, have you been asking the right questions? Or, are you the simple ones willing to take what ever it is you're being fed?

You're not children anymore. And it's not your parents voices of authority who are the ones telling you to eat your vegetables. Now, it's a far less trustworthy voice telling you what you can and can't think, how to feel about things, and that lunacy isn't a place full of mental health issues. Why so many people believe things so easily is partially because of the changes in society, and partially due to the technology of the times. But, there is more to it than even those simple little things.

So, let's start with the most famously used claim of the past ten years. Do you know what it is? You've likely heard it, reheard it, and then heard it again. It plays on a loop in the subconscious minds of our society, scaring people so old they harken back to the days of McCarthyism. It's drilled into the minds of the young, because they've only been told one thing is good, and now good is being threatened.

Sadly, one is suffering under an outdated fear, and the other is suffering from the perversions of our education system, and the revisionism in our belief in a word. And that word is Democracy. But, to understand why things aren't as glib as it seems, we must understand what democracy truly is in practice, not in the rantings of the ones running around yelling that the sky is falling.

… in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.

—James Madison

Democracy can be easily defined, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary:

1. Government by the people, or rule of the majority

a. A form of government in which the people elect representatives to make decision, policies, laws, etc. according to law

b. A form of government in which the people vote directly agaisnt, or in favor of decisions, policies, laws, etc.

--Mirriam Webster Dictionary

Notice the first standard of democracy, the rule of the majority. Majority rule has been a paramount of democracy, but, when it's flouted and attacked by some, the very defenders of democracy are the ones who threaten it the most. What that means, is that when there is a public poll about an bill or an act, and the overwhelming majority of people in a region governed as a supposed democracy want it to pass, but leadership fights it, democracy is not being upheld.

So, when you hear the term, "a threat to our democracy," which is a frequently echoed and parroted term, it's important to ask the right questions?

When did it become their democracy. Democracy is not a term that belongs to one group. It's not even a belief that one side has accurately defined. Because, if it was, then the propagandist machines wouldn't be calling it "our democracy." They'd state it's a threat to democracy, plain and simple.

But, is it always a thing that's a threat? Or, is it pure political theater?

Our system of governance was set up under the constitution. And as it's been more than 30 years since the last amendment, and there have only been 27 in nearly 250 years, it's not doing much living and breathing. What that means, is that democracy shall not be threatened so easily.

Corrupted?

Yes!

Threatened? Democracy is still there. That's what people forget. It's not something that you can change. It's not just a thing. Democracy is an idea. It's a shining idea that led to the founding of what was once a shining light in the darkness. And as such, it is hardly threatened so easily as to be threatened by one man, one group, or one party.

The proof of that is in the rhetoric, and that it's barely been touched by one party, but is always being touted as being on life support by another party. And that is where the fear mongerers find their kryptonite to use against the mindless drones of the people they've kept subjogated for so long. That, and telling half truths, which must be a class taught in ivy league universities attending by the wealthy elitists the very party who claims to want to tax to death never seems to turn away from.

But, that's another part of the things not being always what they seem that is worthy of exploring at a later time.

For today, explore in your own mind, if our democracy is so weak and frail that anybody who disagrees with those sounding the alarms about our democracy being in jeopardy is a threat, was it really that great to begin with. It's not "our democracy" that they're speaking of when they warn the world that their political sky is falling.

And that's the cross that democracy dies upon, because one side claims it for themselves.

No, the sky is not falling. It's merely a bit stormy. And if you realize that, then the propagandists aren't changing you, you're thinking like the shepherd instead of the sheep.