{"id":2432,"date":"2019-04-20T02:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2019-04-20T02:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:32:04","slug":"are-conspiracy-theories-tearing-society-apart-or-saving-us-from-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Are &#8220;Conspiracy Theories&#8221; Tearing Society Apart Or Saving Us From Destruction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-19\/are-conspiracy-theories-tearing-society-apart-or-saving-us-destruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-19\/are-conspiracy-theories-tearing-society-apart-or-saving-us-destruction<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, leftists incessantly refer to our society as a &#8220;democracy&#8221;, I think because they believe if they tell the lie enough it will become reality by default.\u00a0\u00a0 The US was never intended to be a \u201cdemocracy\u201d, but a Republic, and with good reason. Democracy requires blind and often misplaced faith in the system. A Republic requires constant vigilance and healthy skepticism. In a Republic, we are not supposed to simply \u201ctrust\u201d that our leaders are going to do the right thing. We are supposed to put them under a microscope, uncover criminality and corruption, and generally make them uncomfortable at all times. It is our civic duty to become \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment prefers a democracy because in a democracy 51% of the population can dictate the individual liberties of the other 49%, and they are rightly convinced that they can influence the thinking and decisions of the larger half. Also, in a democracy, society revolves around moral relativism and the ever arbitrary \u201cgreater good for the greater number\u201d, instead of governing according to individual liberty, inherent moral compass and human conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-19\/are-conspiracy-theories-tearing-society-apart-or-saving-us-destruction &#8220;First, leftists incessantly refer to our society as a &#8220;democracy&#8221;, I think because they believe if they tell the lie enough it will become reality by default.\u00a0\u00a0 The US was never intended to be a \u201cdemocracy\u201d, but a Republic, and with good reason. Democracy requires blind and often misplaced faith in the system. A Republic requires constant vigilance and healthy skepticism. In a Republic, we are not supposed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}