Wings of Liberty • June 3, 2024

Blowing Smoke: The Myths of “Democracy”

Democracy is government by the people, as opposed to rule by kings or dictators. After centuries of often oppressive monarchial rule, democratic reforms promised people input in the laws which govern them. It could be argued it has been an improvement.


But many mistakenly believe that democracy is the shield which protects individual rights from state overreach. This is a mistake. History has shown that democracy without a strong constitution to protect individual rights against majoritarian oppression is simply rule by the mob.


In the French Revolution, it was seen that the mob can be as cruel and capricious as any dictator,i and that individual rights fall to the crowd just as easily as to the whims of a king.


The Scriptures say that the heart of mankind is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked” – Jeremiah 17:9. Direct democracy in France resulted in riots, orgies in the churches, and guillotines on nearly every street corner in the city of Paris. Citizens were accused and massacred on the slimmest allegation, the sentence carried out without due process or appeal.


Humanity is no different today. It is not more enlightened now. Direct democracy in the hands of Antifa, Extinction Rebellion or Black Lives Matter would result in nothing less than the re-creation of the French Revolution. The Roman Catholic Inquisition persecuted and tortured dissenters for centuries. If in charge today it would act no differently than it has in the past. The Puritans of England were known to be as intolerant as the Roman Catholic Inquisitors, but they lacked civil power to exercise their wicked aspirations.


For this reason, it is only when a good constitution is made the supreme law of the land, above the rule of either mobs or kings, above the maneuvers of politicians of the left or the right, that individual rights are safeguarded.

Another word for a strong constitutional government is republicanism.ii Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, but rather a constitutional republic, which incorporates representative government and constitutionalism. The U.S. Constitution does not even use the word, “democracy”, but rather describes the American system of government as republican in nature.


In other words, the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution itself to be the supreme law of the land, over even the desires of the majority.


Let us return to today. In a world where people are losing their individual rights, the political invocation of democracy is often intended to pacify the populace while their rights are stripped away. There even appears to be some correlation between the size of the tyrant and the number of public references to “democracy” that he or she makes, as though tyranny can be offset with sufficient formulistic references to democracy.


For example, it is part of the communist playbook to assert that a totalitarian society is in fact a free and democratic society, when it is not. China claims its one-party authoritarian system is a “democracy” even though there are no meaningful political alternatives to the ruling power in China, and it cruelly stifles and punishes dissent.iii


Venezuela has “elections”, not because dictator Nicholas Maduro cares about representative government, but because he suspects token elections may help stave off greater international condemnation of his regime.iv

The Cuban government claims it is a “people’s democracy”.v


This is all naked, self-serving propaganda. And similar gaslighting is evident in the western world as freedom crumbles and western governments imitate their communist counterparts.


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that she will implement a “European Democracy Shield” if re-elected, but this does not mean she will take steps to ensure robust public discussion, dissent, and criticism of the European Commission’s policies. Far from it. The “Democracy Shield’s” stated purpose, rather, is to “combat disinformation”,vi which we know is code for suppression of dissent and undesirable public discourse.

We recently saw how much the European Commission values individual rights when it suppressed “disinformation” during Covid by attempting to eliminate public disagreement with compulsory Covid vaccine mandates.vii


In Canada, a country with constitutional protections for individual rights that are unfortunately subject to a powerful override clause in section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Justin Trudeau trampled on the rights of peaceful protesters who opposed vaccine mandates and Covid lockdowns, and did so in the name of protecting “democracy”.viii Wartime emergency legislation was invoked to prevent peaceful protests, and citizens were arrested and had their bank accounts frozen.ix These actions were consistent with Chinese authoritarianism, which Trudeau stated publicly that he appreciates.x


Like Ursula von der Leyen, Trudeau also talks big about how much he cares about democracy. He recently announced an C8.4 million dollar grant to study the impact of climate change in the southern hemisphere on democracy.xi


In 2022, Trudeau announced more funding for the G-7 Rapid Response Mechanism to strengthen coordination between countries in responding to threats to their democracies. The “mechanism” was created in 2018 to fight “disinformation and misinformation”, so-called.


If only there was a grant to study politicians who work for the WEF instead of the citizens who elected them, and the resultant impact on democracy.


The Biden administration frequently invokes democracy. In Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address in 2023, he stated, “Folks, there’s one reason why we’ve been able to do all of these things: our democracy itself.” But the Biden administration oversaw vast government collusion with social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube to censor Americans that disagreed with the state on lockdowns and Covid.xii


It’s strange how the same politicians who often trumpet their commitment to democracy rarely mention the constitutions which were created to limit their overreach against citizen’ rights.


The truth is that the western world is riddled with corruption. It doesn’t usually have one party rule, per se, but it has a corrupt and power hungry administrative state (a shadow branch of government not subject to the electorate), an increasingly dictatorial executive branch, and courts which fail to follow the rule of law established in their countries’ respective constitutions. It has leaders who have betrayed their electorate to globalist ambitions and who refuse to secure their own borders.xiii


Europe does not need a “Democracy Shield”. It needs recognition of the Creator’s gift of inalienable rights to every human being so that politicians can’t strip individuals of their rights of speech and religion.  Safeguarding inalienable and intrinsic rights via constitutional protections is the greatest need in Europe, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, and every other country in the world which claims to value individual rights.


Without these constitutional protections, assertions of democracy are just gaslighting from tyrants.
 

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i https://hannenabintuherland.com/europa/the-french-revolution-and-democratic-tyranny-a-study-of-mob-rule-hanne-nabintu-herland-wnd-column/


ii This is not a reference to the Republican Party, but rather to the principles of a republic which codifies the rule of law, and specifically the Constitution, as the highest law of the land.


iii https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/china/china-us-democracy-summit-mic-intl-hnk/index.html


iv https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/18/venezuela-election-sunday-nicolas-maduro-henri-falcon; https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-election-european-union-electoral-observers-maduro-5e05e255f0b67bf9f476aa7a1b889016 ;


v https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Politics_of_Cuba


vi https://reclaimthenet.org/eus-von-der-leyen-calls-for-more-censorship-amid-re-election-campaign


vii https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/coronavirus-response/fighting-disinformation_en


viii https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/11/trudeau-takes-disinformation-fight-to-europe-00016709


ix https://tnc.news/2024/01/23/federal-court-declares-trudeaus-emergencies-act-unconstitutional/


x https://www.themainewire.com/2022/02/justin-trudeau-said-he-admired-chinas-dictatorship-canadians-should-have-believed-him/


xi https://nationalpost.com/opinion/trudeau-pledge-democratic-decline-climate-change-study


xii https://nypost.com/2023/03/09/matt-taibbi-eviscerates-twitter-in-congressional-hearing/


xiii https://rumble.com/user/LibertyRUS



By Wings of Liberty January 18, 2026
As ecumenical dialogue sweeps the planet and the Protestant denominations return to their mother, as Revelation 17 prophesied, we wish to remind the remaining Protestants on the fence of the history of the Reformation: please remember your history, and who you are thinking of going back to. At the heart of the Reformation, is the issue of sola scriptura. The Bible is the Word of God. It is the sole rule of faith. The Papacy has always put itself above the Word of God. Like the serpent of old, it says, “hath God said?”, and insinuates itself between man and God. The Pope “opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” – 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Nothing has changed in the Papacy. The change is in Protestantism. Please consider where you are going before it is forever too late.
By Wings of Liberty January 9, 2026
The following remarkable interview occurred this week between Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller and CNN’s Jake Tapper. The discussion involved the capture of Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, the fate of its enormous resources, and growing imperialistic intentions targeting the island of Greenland.
By Wings of Liberty December 21, 2025
FAKE MONEY, FAKE SABBATH Everyone knows it is a crime to print fake money, or to use it, also known as “passing it off”, as legal tender. If you want to go to jail fast, print fake money and give it to your buddies for their trips to 7/11. Why does the government get so bent out of shape if you make your own money? Because that’s their exclusive domain. The Constitution (Article 1, section 8) says that only Congress has the power to print money. And boy are they doing a lot of it! 38 Trillion of it in fact, and counting, and they don’t want any competition from civilians. Yes, if there’s anything left in the Constitution that the federal government actually takes seriously it’s the right to print money! The Bible says that we are to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s – Matthew 22:21. There is no doubt that regulating money is primarily the domain of government. Similar to ancient Rome, it has the faces of it's leaders on it. American money also bears the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the coat of arms on one side, and the so-called Eye of Providence on the other, a symbol which bears uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Horus in the rites of ancient Egypt, as well as the All-Seeing Eye in occult practices. God, the Creator and eternal sovereign of the universe, also has an exclusive domain, and he’s even more jealous about His authority than Caesar. Caesar has been delegated temporary oversight (by God) of civil government while this earth remains. But God has always retained sovereignty over religious matters. His domain is itemized in the first four commandments of the Decalogue, separated and enumerated on a separate table of stone to show unmistakably that this is the Creator’s exclusive domain. As part of humanity’s obligations to the Creator, God declares that the seventh day of the week is His Sabbath, and He blessed it as such. The Sabbath predates the fall of humanity – Genesis 2:1-3. It is the sign of His creative power – Exodus 20:11. It is the sign of His sanctifying power – Exodus 31:13; Hebrews 4:9, 10. The seventh day is “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God” – Exodus 20:10; Mark 2:28. God has exclusive jurisdiction over the Sabbath. It bears the great seal of the Creator – His name – the LORD; His title – Creator; His jurisdiction – heaven and earth – Exodus 20:11. God is far more jealous over His Sabbath than Congress is over money printing. The government will throw you in jail if you help it print money. But the Bible says that those who attempt to change the words of the Most High will be destroyed – Revelation 22:19. The Founding Fathers of America believed in the separation of church and state. But there has arisen new kings today “who know not Joseph”, nor the blessings that Providence bestowed on this great land in the past. The forces which are running America into the ground through debt will also establish a counterfeit Sabbath. Sunday sacredness will be exalted, and passed off to the public as the genuine article in much the same way any common counterfeiter makes fake Benjamins. If Congress jealously guards the right to print money, does it not think the God of the universe will jealously guard His Sabbath from counterfeiters? But that is what Sunday sacredness is – it is a counterfeit. It is the mark of the Papacy, and the sign of its authority. It is the Roman Catholic Papacy which boasts to have changed the law of God – it admits it is a counterfeiter. The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine by Reverend Peter Giermann states the following: “ Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer : Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” The Reverend Steven Keenan’s Doctrinal Catechism says similar: “ Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept? Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day; a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” There are many indicators which demonstrate that powerful forces are pushing American society toward a union of church and state and the imposition of Sunday rest laws on the populace. Jesuit-educated Erika Kirk, the new president of Turning Point USA, has given an interview where she laments the loss of Sunday blue laws, and has stated that society must be “retrained”. i On November 13, 2025, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Resolution 222 which officially declares November 23, 2025, as “Christ the King Sunday”. Christian Nationalists today want the same thing Pius XI wanted when he wrote his encyclical Quas Primas in 1925 (which is referenced in the Michigan resolution), and created the original Catholic Feast of Christ the King Sunday. They want a union of church and state. The Michigan resolution was sponsored by Republican state Representative and Catholic, Josh Schriver, who also sponsored a resolution in September 2025 to honor Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pope. ii The White House has issued another press release honoring another Catholic holiday. First it honored Lent, and encouraged Christians to observe Lent, which is a festival entirely devoid of biblical basis. Now it has honored the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. iii The executive branch of government has declared that, “For nearly 250 years, Mary has played a distinct role in our great American story”, and “As we approach 250 years of glorious American Independence, we acknowledge and give thanks, with total gratitude, for Mary’s role in advancing peace, hope, and love in America and beyond our shores.” The attribution of God’s blessing and protection over America to Mary is idolatry, and blasphemy. Papist Jonathan Berry, architect of Project 2025’s Sunday provisions, has been ratified as Solicitor of Labor. The Department of Labor has wasted no time in moving toward a unification of church and state. It is hosting regular prayer services where federal employees are encouraged to pray and sing hymns. iv Berry has stated his intention to restore Sunday sacredness in America and use his civil authority as Solicitor of Labor to punish transgressors of Sunday rest laws. v Sunday laws are coming. A global conversation has begun and it will grow until it becomes the dominant issue on this planet. Everyone on earth will pick a side. On one side is the Creator of the universe, and His pledge to “write His laws in our hearts and in our minds – Jeremiah 31:31-33. To make all things new. He says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” On the other side is the ecumenical movement, the Papacy, the civil and apostate powers of government, and their false Sabbath, the eminent pagan day of the Sun. You will decide where you stand. ________________________________ i https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2HjvrMaHnlw ii https://www.wingsofliberty.net/michigan-house-of-representatives-pass-resolution-to-establish-papal-holiday iii https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/ iv https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/department-of-labor-hosts-first-prayer-service-emulating-regular-pentagon-events v https://www.wingsofliberty.net/copy-of-the-curse-of-church-and-state-part-3-liberty-threatened