Democracy is a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who elect people to represent them. That’s why the Democratic Party should change its name, as it largely ignores the fundamental principle of democracy. The Democratic Party does not respect the sovereignty of the people, preferring to transfer innumerable powers to bureaucracies stuffed with unelected officials. Hence, as Americans for Prosperity Vice President Phil Kerpen, has said, “the Democratic Party should be renamed the Bureaucratic Party.”
Democrats stuff the government with endless layers of legislation, regulations, unfunded mandates and officious committees led by bureaucrats who consume billions of tax dollars without producing anything useful in return. Then the Democrats protect the bureaucrats from being accountable to the people.
Thus, the Democratic Party is not democratic at all. It is the bureaucratic party.
America has had many different political organizations over the years, including Federalists, Anti-Federalists, National Republicans, Whigs, Democrats and Republicans.
Parties have come and gone or been transformed from their original incarnations. Economic and social demands of the times dictated the conversion, as well as having the political smarts and guts to do honest appraisals of intentions. It is time for just such a re-evaluation of the Democratic Party.
The Tea Party has emerged as a significant voice for fiscal responsibility serving as an antigen to the Democratic Party’s mission, which is to grow the government and increase dependency in the population.
But this can only be accomplished by circumventing the true intent of the U.S. Constitution, which is to limit government to specific and narrowly defined powers. Hence, the bureaucrats prefer “the living, breathing,” Constitution, which best suits their goals and interests.
Bureaucratic government is like a twisted, littered staircase spiraling down into an abyss of inadequacy. The bureaucrats continually trespass upon the good will of the people. Democrats have abused the faith of their constituents while transferring their liberties into the hands of the bureaucratic machine.
Metamorphosis has thus transformed the Democrats — a progression of their own finely crafted method of operation. Slowly, yet surely, the Democratic Party has wrestled the torch of liberty from the hands of the people, and has lit a “bonfire of the vanities.”
Laws that are incomprehensible and which delegate their administration to unelected officials defies democracy and promotes the demise of the Republic and the justice for which it stands.
Publius forewarned about such dangers in “Federalist No. 62”:
“The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”
The Democratic Party must be seen for what it has become. It has surely earned the new title of the Bureaucratic Party.
Examiner contributor Janine Turner is a longtime actress and talk radio show host on KLIF in Dallas. She appears frequently on Friday editions of Fox News’ “O’Reily Factor.”
