The Pledge of Allegiance to Democracy

  Lasting Democracy does not grant an unqualified “anything the majority asks for or accepts from the government,” but Lasting Democracy MUST hold its citizens and its politicians (and political parties and police) constitutionally accountable to The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy including the Inherent Human Right to Live and the maxim killing humans is wrong because Human Rights are for All Humans, or else genuine Democracy can easily be lost to ‘Creeping Totalitarianism’ 

wherein democracies (like 1930s Germany) gradually but increasingly take on the characteristics of totalitarian States (all of which deny killing humans is wrong and all of which think the government decides which humans may or may not be legally killed instead of recognizing lasting democratic government’s foundation that governments are obligated to always protect and serve always-precious human lives because Human Rights are for All Humans) (Hitler’s Nazis were democratically elected by voters who did not hold government accountable to human equality) . . .

Lasting Democracy requires that all citizens as part of their basic education as citizens of a Free Democracy be taught and know The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy which all Human Rights and democratic freedoms are historically and logically built on and cannot last without (which is why they should also be constitutionally enshrined for accountability in any democracy which wants to last). Uneducated ignorance of the foundations of Free Democracy guarantee its eventual failure. Basic Human Rights Education in The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy equips all citizens to guard and protect their own freedom even from uneducated politicians. This education makes citizens of democracies too educated to unwittingly cast votes for extremist politicians and extremist political parties who (wittingly or unwittingly) do not even uphold The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy, but who in their own uneducated ignorance may even follow the totalitarian legal human-killing precedent of the Extremist Left Atheist Soviet Communist Party which first legalized human-killing abortion, or of the Extremist Right German Nazi Party which first legalized both human-killing abortion and human-killing euthanasia (legal human-killing is of course inherently extremist). In democracies “of the people, by the people, for the people,” citizens govern themselves, through their elected representatives. This means the responsibility of governing well and maintaining Free Democracy on its historical and logical foundations ultimately rests with each citizen voter, which is why each citizen voter must be educated in Democracy’s foundations. . . Citizens cannot possibly govern themselves well and democratically, through intelligently elected representatives who govern well and avoid totalitarianism for the long-term, if neither the citizen voters nor their elected representatives even know The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy, nor are even held constitutionally accountable to uphold them . . .  

Nothing could be more obvious than that holding that people are equal does not make the ideas people have equal. Ideas and opinions can be tested against objective standards like Science and Logic and established facts of History. Pro-Choice opinions are proven extremely uneducated and unintelligent opinions when tested against these standards (as well as politically dangerous to democracy, as they literally follow totalitarian precedent), as shown in the books DEMOCRACY 101; Pro-Life Equals Pro-Democracy; Killing Humans Is Wrong; and No Fruit Without Roots (and the handbook Knights of Human Rights, Ladies of Lasting Democracy). It is the historic “Pro-Life” principles of equal human preciousness without exception underlying Democracy that say that every human is equal in the first place – so “Pro-Choicers” are borrowing from what they deny when they want to have their Pro-Choice opinion treated as if it was “equal” to someone else’s Pro-Life opinion (human equality is a traditional, Judeo-Christian, “Pro-Life” assertion effectively denied by “Pro-Choicers” who believe they should have the choice to legally kill humans by abortion, effectively denying any Pro-Life, democracy-grounding Inherent Human Right to Live). But it is manifestly true that not all ideas and opinions people have are equal in value; in quality; even in conformity with objective, verifiable reality; and it is obviously the case that ideas and opinions are not equal even if humans themselves are equal in value and rights (which is a Pro-Life assertion, not a Pro-Choice one). Nothing could be more obvious than that uneducated Pro-Choice opinions are not equal with educated Pro-Life opinions. Educated Pro-Life opinions are backed up by all the most pertinent facts of Science, Logic, and Human Rights History, while Pro-Choice opinions can only be held by the uneducated, intellectually dishonest (or unintelligent), who can and do only defend legal abortion by denying established facts of Science (like that preborn humans are humans) and/or by using textbook logical fallacies of reasoning (see the above books).

PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS CAN ONLY BE GUARANTEED BY PUBLIC POLICIES/LAWS BEING CONSTITUTIONALLY ACCOUNTABLE TO UPHOLD THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY 

To prevent poor, illogical, uneducated thinking among the population making a democracy slip gradually towards becoming a totalitarian “Police State,” and 

to protect the private individual freedoms of all citizens, Lasting Democracy requires that democratic governments and their politicians and political parties and police be sworn to uphold the constitutionally-enshrined Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy as the guide of public policy, so that government public policies and laws (and police enforcement of them) are always accountable to them and never undermine the foundations of Free Democracy (no matter what uneducated, stupid, senseless or dangerous ideas and opinions may be held by some, even many, individual citizens as they exercise their individual private freedom of belief which is guaranteed only by educated and genuinely democratic public policies and laws) . . .

  Core Principle: There is No Fruit Without Roots. Regardless of what percentage of a democratic country are practicing Christians, lasting democracies must minimally maintain a proper, healthy respect for Christianity as the historical root and Source of The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy. Government persecution or restriction of Christian belief or practice is a sure sign of Democracy-ending ‘Creeping Totalitarianism.’ 

Western Civilization was viciously brutal before Christianity, entirely lacking any concept of human equality or Inherent Human Rights. The very first Chapter of the Judeo-Christian Bible provided the West with the historical foundation of the equal human preciousness which grounds Free Democracy: In the Bible’s first Book, Genesis, Chapter 1 verse 27, the Bible declares that humans, “male and female” are equally created “in God’s Image.” The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy are also rooted in the Judeo-Christian Bible’s Commandment, “you shall not kill,” and the Biblical testimony that “God is Love” (1 John 4:8, 16). This made Love for every precious human “made in God’s Image” the highest Western value Europeans (for all their human imperfections) were motivated to strive for . . . 

Lasting Democracy has a proper understanding of censorship and propaganda and uses intellectual honesty when judging the use of either. No government can avoid the use of propaganda to promote desired ideas and attitudes in the population (e.g. honest use promoting the true idea smoking is harmful; dishonest use promoting the false idea that Jews or any other group of humans are less human than others). No government can avoid the use of censorship to reduce undesirable ideas and attitudes in the population (e.g. honest use discouraging child pornography and anti-Semitism which harms humans; dishonest use censoring verifiably true facts which do not support totalitarian-oriented governments and their unscientific ideologies). Healthy democratic governments will use propaganda and censorship honestly, to promote verifiable truths that positively support democracy-grounding Equal Human Rights for All Humans and to discourage harmful untruths which are against established facts of Science or History and which do damage to human societies. Totalitarian States and unhealthy democratic governments which are unwittingly totalitarian-oriented make dishonest use of propaganda and censorship to promote totalitarian ideologies based on errors/untruths and to hide verifiably true facts that expose their errors . . .