OPINION:
Booker T. Washington famously said, “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”
James Madison warned against the same in Federalist No. 10, “The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection.”
Article 3 of the Constitution does not grant the Supreme Court the specific power of a simple majority to infringe on individual, unalienable rights of a minority until they are de facto neutered. Yet that appears possible if one political party packs the court with justices devoted to its view (e.g., on abortion, gun control, freedom of speech). Would not such a situation be totalitarian by another name, with government officials claiming to represent society’s majority against a minority’s individual rights?
Many countries’ governments claim to have a foundation of socialism, but most are just dictatorships. America is the only nation claiming to protect the unalienable rights of individuals against the tyranny of a simple majority against which George Washington and Madison warned.
Before voting, citizens should ask which of the two major political parties wants to replace America’s government — the government created by our Founding Fathers and patriots for the specific purpose of protecting the unalienable rights of individuals. Doing so would honor the more than 650,000 fallen Americans we remember each Memorial Day.
JOE BOYETT
Montgomery, Alabama
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