By G.N.Benefield

Alexis De Tocqueville saw three flaws with American Democracy to be discussed here.

The destruction of Constitutional supremacy began with Democrat attacks on popular sovereignty and the voting process created by local Democrat controlled states and counties. One might recall "hanging chads" and more votes for Franken than there were registered voters. De Tocqueville warned we should fear the importance of executive power over the "mode" and "circumstance" of elections when the power an importance of executive influence and power over the election. "The dangers of the elective system therefore grow in direct proportion to the influence exerted by the executive power on affairs of state."

De Tocqueville noted the early presidents were isolated by laws and the physical isolation of the nation. Now, with Congress neglecting its role in checks and balances and the establishment of globalism politically as well as economically, the presidency has become an office of near heredity. The repetition of the Bush's and Clinton's are blood examples. Obama is an example of heredity of familia agenda.

This ultimately leads to his second warning. Democracy unchecked leads to an democratic aristocracy. The United States tends to re-elect senators, representatives, and executives at each level of government. The republic has evolved into an aristocracy of professional politicians and in many cases, their offspring. Popular sovereignty has become more attached to personal charisma and aristocracy over the constitutional protections of a democratic republic.

De Tocqueville observed the "Crisis of the Election." He says, "One can consider the moment of the election of the president as a moment of national crisis." The democratic republic requires each party to adhere to the precepts of the Constitution as the rudder. Libertarians and conservative fight to adhere to the Constitution's mandates and intent. Socialist Democrats are intent of circumventing the Constitution and its checks and balances. The Constitution mandates capitalism, the Socialist Democrat Party seeks to destroy capitalism.

Third, is that political parties are an "evil inherent in free governments." According to De Tocqueville, major parties tend to be devoted to principle over the consequences of their acts: conservativism vs. liberalism, libertarian vs. statism. Small parties, he notes, are generally without political faith. This is the case with the Socialist Democrat Party and a Republican Party without principle. The major parties have immersed themselves in consequences without guiding principles. They have united in the pragmatics of protecting the political aristocracy in conflict with the interests of the Constitution, the Republic, or the parties. 

This has given rise to the Tea Party lead movement, a coalition of libertarians, classic anti-authoritarian liberals, and conservatives based upon the principle of Constitutional authority that protects the individual from government and the collective.

Glen Beck and others have pondered, Where are the great men of today to take the place of the great men of our founding? Alexis De Tocqueville was quite clear - the founders were great men, the product of great peril and enlightenment. Today, judging from personal experience and observation, our colleges have promoted and promulgated a generation of politicians looking back to collectivism and the ends justify the means. 

The concept of equality is shattered by the Socialist Democrat Party's efforts toward the collective, government run economy, industry, and market in a neo-fascist state cloaked in manufactured health reform, global warming, and economic crisis'.

Will the 2010 elections strike a victory for the Constitution? Most likely not. The national crisis will be too great for Obama and the Socialist Democrat Party to loose. Nineteen, or so, cities control national politics. Kansas does not matter any more with four official, and 36 phantom congressional districts. Chicago, Dallas, LA, NY, and what is left in Detroit will continue the road to socialism and a defacto one-party fascist regime. The Tea Party movement will not recapture the Republican Party, which is tied to its own aristocracy. The Tea Party movement will win governors and local races, they will force out some congressional office holders. Perhaps the patriots should focus on where the political expression will be made. The coalition has six months to take back the Republican Party to its libertarian, conservative, and commitment to individual rights it was committed. If not, there may not be a need for a presidential election in 2010.