From Washington Examiner.com (Sept. 28, 2021):
Most people think "democracy" is that thing whereby all of us get to vote for mayor, congressman, and maybe a new tax hike or bond issue. For a lot of most rabidly “pro-democracy” folk on the Left, though, democracy means something completely different. It means that a mob of activists get to tell you how to raise your children.
“Democratize everything” is a terrifying and authoritarian mindset witnessing massive new popularity. It’s behind cancel culture. It’s behind the culture-war efforts to crush conservative and religious institutions. It’s behind the Marxism ascendant in Western nations.
“Democratize everything” means that nothing should be beyond the control of what an empowered mob demands. This is a view fundamentally antagonistic toward not only individual liberty, but also civil society and property rights. If a store owner gets to set his or her prices, that’s some rich person making decisions that affect the rest of us, without our input. If a local church’s membership decides it will have only men as pastors, even though the broader society has adopted more egalitarian standards, that's "undemocratic."
Alexis de Tocqueville, whose home country of France had been convulsed by the democracy of the guillotine decades earlier, wrote in Democracy in America about how the zeitgeist of democracy was antipathetic toward civil society. "Little platoons" are inherently anti-democratic, whether they are internally democratic or not. Local government control allows a small town to have rules the state as a whole might dislike. Capitalism means that owners make decisions with very little control by others. Clubs, churches, and congregations can set their own rules and prevent people from joining, which means nonmembers, who surely outnumber members, effectively have no say over the club’s rules.
This is the root of the growing appetite to crack down on and control businesses, churches, and other small groups that might buck elite morality.
Nowhere does this show up more than in education. The everything-democratizers are pretty upset that some people might be educating children in a way that the public-education establishment doesn’t approve of.
Here, by the way, we see what democratize everything really means. It doesn't merely mean that the majority gets to oppress the minority. It really means we give control over people’s lives to specific people who are politically powerful that leftists approve of. Special interest groups, such as socially liberal activist groups and teachers unions, are the ones who call the shots when government power becomes stronger and more centralized.
The Pennsylvania School Boards Association flatly asserted this week that private schools are less accountable than public schools. [read more]
To the Left democracy means socialism. America is not a democracy. It is a representative republic. True direct democracy eventually fails because of man’s sinful passions. The Founding Fathers understood this. Benjamin Franklin said it well: Democracy is six cannibals and four missionaries voting on what’s for dinner.
Also, to the Left the only family a child has is the State, therefore it is the Dept. of Education which decides how a child is to be raised and taught (brainwashed?). The State knows better than the parents in how to raise the child. The parents have no say in the matter. This comes from Marx himself. That’s why there is public education. The Founders would have disagreed with the State raising the child. They knew correctly that the child is given to the parents, not the State.
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