So did our founders and other great thinkers.

“It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved, that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”
Alexander Hamilton, Speech to Congress, June 21, 1788

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
James Madison, Federalist #10


"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy.
You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average v**er.
Winston Churchill

F*****ts embrace Authoritarianism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace Nationalism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace Militarism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace Corporatism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace religion intermixed with government...so do Conservatives
F*****ts label minorities as the enemy...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts are against Socialism and C*******m...so are Conservatives.
F*****ts are against intellectualism and liberalism...so are Conservatives.
F*****ts are against Democracy and so are Conservatives.

In fact, when you read about f*****m there is literally nothing in it that conservatives disagree with...yet they will scream that it is Liberal because Hitler used "Socialism" in the name of his party. What they neglect to understand is that that was simply propaganda because Socialism was popular at the time not because he intended to integrate it into his political theme. And when you look at Hitler's F*****m in practice he both deported Socialists and C*******ts or sent them to labor camps where they were worked to death.

And the problem with all of this is that conservatives don't understand that F*****m is the worst part of their ideology so don't know how to avoid it. With liberals, we understand that C*******m is the giant wart in our ideology so we've used Social Democracy successfully since the 1930's.

SNIP>>>Many f*****t ideas derived from the reactionary backlash to the progressive revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 and to the secular liberalism and social radicalism that accompanied these upheavals. De Maistre condemned the 18th-century Enlightenment for having subverted the dominance of traditional religion and traditional elites and paid homage to the public executioner as the protector of a divinely sanctioned social hierarchy. Taine lamented the rise to power of the masses, whom he suggested were at a lower stage of biological evolution than aristocrats. Le Bon wrote a primer on how to divert the barbarism of the masses from revolution to reaction. Barrès fused ethnic rootedness with authoritarian nationalism and contended that too much civilization led to decadence and that hatred and violence were energizing remedies.

In short, F*****m was formed as a backlash to progressivism which is why when it rears its ugly head it's as a backlash to progressivism as we see now...

F*****ts embrace Authoritarianism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace Nationalism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace Militarism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace Corporatism...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts embrace religion intermixed with government...so do Conservatives
F*****ts label minorities as the enemy...so do Conservatives.
F*****ts are against Socialism and C*******m...so are Conservatives.
F*****ts are against intellectualism and liberalism...so are Conservatives.
F*****ts are against Democracy and so are Conservatives.

In fact, when you read about f*****m there is literally nothing in it that conservatives disagree with...yet they will scream that it is Liberal because Hitler used "Socialism" in the name of his party. What they neglect to understand is that that was simply propaganda because Socialism was popular at the time not because he intended to integrate it into his political theme. And when you look at Hitler's F*****m in practice he both deported Socialists and C*******ts or sent them to labor camps where they were worked to death.

And the problem with all of this is that conservatives don't understand that F*****m is the worst part of their ideology so don't know how to avoid it. With liberals, we understand that C*******m is the giant wart in our ideology so we've used Social Democracy successfully since the 1930's.

SNIP>>>Many f*****t ideas derived from the reactionary backlash to the progressive revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 and to the secular liberalism and social radicalism that accompanied these upheavals. De Maistre condemned the 18th-century Enlightenment for having subverted the dominance of traditional religion and traditional elites and paid homage to the public executioner as the protector of a divinely sanctioned social hierarchy. Taine lamented the rise to power of the masses, whom he suggested were at a lower stage of biological evolution than aristocrats. Le Bon wrote a primer on how to divert the barbarism of the masses from revolution to reaction. Barrès fused ethnic rootedness with authoritarian nationalism and contended that too much civilization led to decadence and that hatred and violence were energizing remedies.

In short, F*****m was formed as a backlash to progressivism which is why when it rears its ugly head it's as a backlash to progressivism as we see now...