Everyone but dictators love democracy. But throughout history, democracy as a noun has never worked. It has some potential as a verb. Over the last 30 decades I’ve a gathered over 140 quotes (none from ChatGPT) going back the last 3000 years (email MoM2026@earthlink.net for the entire list). Each offers one or more reasons why democracy has not worked. From my grounding as a biologist delving deep in to cognitive issues it is clear that this noun is not a fundamental principle, a “self-evident” Truth, or a “Law of Nature and of Nature’s God” as an “inalienable Right’. Historically it’s a relatively recent invention of the human mind. A logical idea for making rules that people must live under, or up to. Because without human input into such laws people can get very unhappy when the laws do not protect them. Especially laws that are not applied to everyone equally (our biological sense of injustice). Add to this any laws that don’t protect the fundamental need of human “freedom and security” which according to Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” is the only legitimate purpose of government. And without all three of these basic elements (democratization, justice, and protection of inalienable Rights), no government can be sustainable. Together, these represent another phase we use, and you read about all the time. The Rule of law. It was expressed but not specially named as humankind’s foundation - yet backed by the wisdom in the 1776 Declaration of Independence - within the simple but profound phrase “the Laws of Nature end of Nature’s God.” In a 10-word summary using common language, ‘keep people and nature healthy’ - ‘don’t believe everything you think’.
So please replace the word ‘Democracy’ with ‘Democratization’ of ‘just’ and ‘essential’ laws for humankind’s desire to survive and thrive on this gifted planet. Maybe we can finally flourish with the global ‘rule of law’.
What follows is the life and death consequences of US democracy and in the lack of the Rule of Law in the United Nations 'international law' with its lack of protection of inalienable rights and nature.
UN Foundation newsletter 12-18-25
“The humanitarian system’s tank is running on empty – with millions of lives hanging in the balance.” Twenty years after the UN’s Central Emergency Relief Fund started, the UN Secretary-General’s words strike a chord. The world’s lifeline in humanity’s darkest moments is faltering.
UN leaders rally the international community to step up support for the Central Emergency Fund at its 2026 pledging event.
As the international community rallied last week to mark the Fund's 20th anniversary and commit to saving lives in a time of critical need, one message was clear: This is not the moment for apathy or indifference — but for solidarity, compassion, and action.
CERF has delivered nearly $10 billion in life-saving assistance across more than 100 countries — reflecting a central promise of the UN’s Charter, “to achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character."
That mission remains more critical than ever.
//// What's the word used to describe an expectation of something different - after doing the same thing over and over again without making any changes.?
Below are the comments made in today's Washington Post letter
to the editor regarding the current violence going on all around us.
“Our hearts are durable, made to be filled with love as
they are made to be broken, but resilience is the key to our survival in the
face of loss and horror. Our capacity to feel, and to grieve is our strength as
human beings… Stripped of everything – even of hope during the darkest of times
– we could still choose our attitude in facing pain; this is one of Victor
Frankel‘s great moral Insights from surviving Auschwitz and losing his parents
and brother to the Nazis.
Frankel also taught that we are compelled to act when it is possible to improve an outcome. Ahmed al A Hamed who stopped one of the killers of Jews at Bondi Beach, manifested that moral principle Christianity teaches that if we act as if we have faith, faith will be granted us, having faith does not imply the certainty of any particular outcome – but do not act diminishes our own humanity. We must act because without action, our world is eclipse by indifference and cruelty. Eric Rafael, Santa Fe.
FYI: The word 'perdurable' means enduring, constantly, unperishable
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