As I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed I came across the following fragment of a quote from Thomas Jefferson, “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.” It appeared to me that Jefferson accurately predicted a couple hundred years into the future because his quote almost perfectly sunned up conditions existing here in the United States now. The only discrepancy in the quote is the fact that the Biden regime is unelected, thanks to the theft of the 2016 presidential election from Trump.
Despotism is one of those words I’ve encountered over and over again and was 99 percent sure I knew what it meant. I looked it up to be sure. Here is a definition of despotism from Google. It corresponds with my understanding of the term.
A country or political system where the ruler holds absolute power. The exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel an oppressive way.
I looked up the original source of the quote and found it here, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia written in 1784.
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
The Constitution properly distributed government power between three federal branches, with proper checks and balances. Also government power was distributed between the states and the federal government.
Progressives began transforming the United States from a constitutional republic into a full-fledged despotism over a hundred years ago by concentrating the majority of all government power into an enormously overblown executive branch of the federal government. The United States is now completely a despotism.
In his farewell address George Washington also warned that the concentration of power would lead to despotism.
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
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