Stephen Young said Democrats have not studied enough history to realize that their beliefs on what democracy is are “dangerous.” He made the comments on a recent episode of The Greatness Conversation.
“In democracy, you must have respect for other people,” Young said in a recent episode of The Greatness Conversation. “Your office as a person living in a democracy, in a constitutional democracy, is that of a citizen.”
“When I hear the Democrats talk about democracy, that’s a kind of mass movement, will of the majority crush the minority. It’s an oppressive idea, but they don’t even seem to be smart enough, or they haven’t studied political theory or history enough to realize how dangerous their thinking is,” said Young. “And when they act on their thinking, if I disagree with you, I call you anti-democratic.”
Young joined the podcast to discuss his thoughts on the second assassination attempt made against President Donald Trump, Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz’s trips to Maoist China, as well as his own research and work on behalf of the concept of Moral Capitalism and his involvement with The Caux Roundtable.
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Young is the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism (CRT). Young has published Moral Capitalism and The Road to Moral Capitalism, two well-received books written as a guide to implement the CRT ethical and socially responsible Principles for Business. In her 2008 book, The Difference Makers, Professor Sandra Waddock listed Young among the 23 persons who created the corporate social responsibility movement.
The Greatness Conversation episodes can be found on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
This goes back to Socrates and British Common Law. Democracy cannot (legally) become Mobocracy in America because any majority has to consider even a minority of just one when dealing with God given Natural Rights all people are born with. It is why 99% cannot vote 1% into slavery. This is what the civil society is about and if it fails to protect and defend Natural Rights ultimately centralized government, employed with that task, will be resisted and counter force will be used. I suspect America would become decentralized. Geography will separate populations which will govern locally.
The Federal Government can’t continue to pay its armed employees forever because it is broke and cannot survive for much longer without frank theft of assets that it never created. Too many armed civilians, which are separated by large distances, would eventually prevail by methods that would cause defeat by a thousand cuts. Of course a lot of people will, also, untimely perish. The amazing thing is that what we have now could have been avoided if those in power did the Constitutional things they took sworn oaths to insure to their employers (the people ) that they could be trusted.
I doubt that any public school is currently doing anything like the Constitution test that I had to study for & take in middle school – several months of intensive course work regarding the way that the 3 branches of federal government are organized, the Constitutional basis for that organization, the Bill of Rights, etc followed by long form testing. If it was still being taught, they might understand how many safeguards were built into our founding documents to prevent tyranny of the majority – that only the House membership is based on population, the electoral college, etc. Even the basic understanding that we live in a republic rather than a democracy has been slowly erased, so it isn’t surprising that many young Democrats fail to recognize the inherent danger in the way they think government ought to work
Hey, I had to take American History and World History classes in HS and I was in the American History class with Janet Yellen who I argued with over Lincoln and the Civil War. The teacher, I believe, was a Democrat Patriot, that forced us to memorize the preambles to the Constitution and the Declaration which I can still recite from memory today. In fact I can recite far more from memory.
Isn’t it obvious as to how we got to where we are today? Circa 1979, Jimmy Carter created the Dept. of Education. “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Vladimir Lenin. This is no different than LBJ and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Founders would never have given control of education to a central body which would incremental assume plenary power and control nor would they pass a congressional act to give a class of people rights that are not afforded the rest of the population.
Absolutely. When my own children were in HS, I designed a civics course for them because it was no longer any part of their curriculum…my youngest graduated in 2009. Over the years, I have cursed Carter’s presidency for a number of things but the creation of the DoE is the most prominent.