Email from OCPAC WADE BURLESON, Artificial Intelligence, and the November Vote Published Monday, October 14, 2024 THIS WEDNESDAY WADE BURLESON Wade resigned as the OCPAC Foundation Board Chairman earlier this year in order to step into the Artificial Intelligence arena. Listen to Wednesday's preview and bring someone with you to hear Wade pull the curtains away from the details of AI, American politics, and this November's Presidential election. Bring a friend!!! Send this Newsletter to another here. Come and be a part of building an informed Oklahoma! Bring your family and friends Wednesday Bring your pastor and buy his lunch! Send this Newsletter to another here. Lunch is optional for $10 Doors Open 11 AM Meeting Noon to 1:15 PM OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK $5 ENTRY FEE Tax-deductible donations accepted at door. SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON Find us at Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. BOB LINN Democracy: The Bane of Freedom While driving home through the streets of Norman last week, I passed a lawn sign promoting democracy and Kamala Harris. Democracy is the battle cry of far-left political extremists. It was in the Garden of Edin that our first parents, in possession of divine revelation, chose to form a democracy and take a vote to establish the official posture of mankind regarding the Word of God. In a unanimous vote, they sidestepped revelation and ate the apple. The ancient church was faced with the same option when the Hebrew children, in Numbers chapter fourteen, voted 10-2 to decline the divine mission. The mission was fulfilled by their children, but for the parents, democracy did not work out well. (Stephen called them "the church in the desert" in Acts chapter seven, KJV) In Matthew’s twenty-seventh chapter, we read that Pilate opened the judgment of Christ to a democratic vote of the people. The vote displayed Jerusalem’s cultural decadence and the defilement of the shepherds of God’s people. Democracies value of ideas of majority opinion rather than eternal revealed truth. Democracy as a form of government was looked upon with derision by America’s founders. Noted American author, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), is famous for his book The Last of the Mohicans. He said of democracy: It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a professor at Edinburgh University and ended his career at Harvard. Of democracy, he wrote: Communism is an extreme form of democracy . . . All forms of socialism . . . are democratic. They all obtain popular assent by the manipulation of mass psychology. Renowned scholar Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was born in Europe but spent a considerable portion of his life in America. When he wrote his Liberty or Equality, he made it clear that the word “democracy” was the ideological click-bait of tyrannies such as the ones established by Lenin & Stalin. Because of noted Alexis de Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America, Leddihn points out that even Tocqueville declined to endorse democratic forms of government. Tocqueville said of democracy: I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy . . . liberty is my foremost passion. In his book, Leftism, Leddihn writes: Outstanding men who have a certain pride in their experience or their knowledge are not likely to be admirers of democracy which refuses to distinguish between the various degrees of knowledge, is indifferent toward truth (as Berdyaev pointed out) and takes its stand based on quantity and biological age rather than quality. In this system of government, votes are counted and not weighed, an observation Aristotle made over 2,000 years ago. Indeed, it would be difficult to find in Europe more than a handful of truly outstanding thinkers who believed or believe in democracy. Speaking of the "classic liberal" ("conservative" in the 21st century): The aversion of the early liberals for the two democratic postulates of equality and majority rule also had other important roots. They knew about the incompatibility between the liberal and the egalitarian principle, they saw very clearly that the enfranchisement of the masses would inevitably lead to the rise of political movements exploiting the envy of the many, the realized that the concept of the “politicized” nation was in itself totalitarian – a term then not known or used but clearly sensed and understood as in Tocqueville’s vision of the new tyranny to come. It was also evident to the early liberals that democracy would replace the search for truth in the light of reason with the mere whim, the emotions, the naked desires of the many expressed in numbers. For more on the word liberal, see our September 23rd article on Old Words that Built America here. U.S. President, John Adams In a letter written on December 17, 1814 to U.S. Senator John Taylor, President John Adams wrote that a democracy would quickly become an oligarchy and then to a despotism. He wrote: Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. IN CLOSING In his book Leftism, Kuehnelt-Leddihn elaborates on these very thoughts that President John Adams addressed more than a hundred years earlier. Leddihn emphasized that the masses are not pure as the wind driven snow. They are not innocents whose moral and civic infection came only by American education, publishing, the press, the theater, and the movie industry. Those negative public influencers of culture I've just listed have simply promoted ideas which have appealed to the already existing seamier side of human nature. Public influencers have exploited the dark side of the American soul. Ideas once commonly understood as pernicious have been articulated, through various media (including the American classroom), using twists of language presented in clever and coherent ways. Corrupting ideas once more hidden in the American mind in nascent and undeveloped form were given a language which seemed to justify the unwholesome as something we should all be proud of. All of a sudden, the second half of the first chapter of the book of Romans came to America. As did Genesis 19 (Sodom & Gomorrah). America did not even know to blush! These influencers enabled Americans to affirm ideas once considered noxious, pernicious, and immoral. America has been given a new light. It has been a new light emanating from what our Bibles tell us is Satan who has transformed himself into an angel of light. (II Corinthians 11:14) WHY A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC? All other forms of government are based on the unfettered opinions of the human race. The epistemological foundation of all mankind is fixed in the Word of God, the Scriptures. All constitutions, rules, & laws not directly connected to the Bible are destructive to humanity. Micah’s vision in his fourth chapter portrays the only resolution to the international political scene. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountains of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and peoples shall flow to it and many nations shall come and say: “Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” ~Micah 4:1, 2 This is the true relationship of church and state. Rather than a separation, it is more akin to the intimate relationship of a husband and wife where the two are distinct, but function as a unit. Scripture looks to a day when no one will have the temerity to speak of church-state separation. 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