Let's talk about the word democracy for a minute.
It's associated with Jefferson.
He's the iconic figure.
But what does he really mean?
The best way to understand Jefferson on democracy is to look at what
he is opposed to.
And he is opposed to aristocracy,
the accumulation and domination of a few great families.
Now, democracy seems so, obviously, the best regime.
The best way of governing ourselves, we take it for granted.
It's the American way.
But, in Jefferson's time, for many people democracy was a dirty word.
And there's a reason for this, folks.
And that is, Democracy means that we don't have subordination.
We don't have rule based on the superiority of some over others.
Instead we have these centrifugal forces.
What might become an anarchy?
What is to keep people together?