1472 Republic vs. Democracy

Democracy is mob rule, usually resulting in tyranny via propaganda. It’s a form of socialism that pretends that the will of the majority is in the best interests of everyone. In comparison, a republic’s goal is that the locus of decision-making first starts with the individual then the community then the county then the state, and final oversight by the federal government; making choices that sacrifice individual liberty for the group’s needs considered at each step. Even though democracy often plays a part, it is constrained by liberty, as formally defined in the U.S. Constitution and also parochially according to local custom, culture & tradition, so that at no time do people think their own liberty is being taken unfairly. In fact, for democracy to even work, voting needs to be at the finest granularity so that only the people directly involved in the consequences of the decision are doing the voting, with the democratically-elected individuals from the smaller groups acting in a representative role at ever-increasing scale. Federalism, the overarching control performed by the national government, is only for things that people from different states should expect to be in every state; for example, military conscription, interstate commerce and the judiciary. However, all of this only works if important values like work ethic, sexual propriety, educational standards & law enforcement are shared by everyone, otherwise so-called multiculturalism will destroy the society.