Democracy Vs. Representative Republic
By Bryan Lutter
Nearly two million innocent black South Africans are dead because of Hollywood liberals. The infant mortality rate amongst rural blacks prior to the US government imposed South African Democracy was 40 percent. That is atrocious, but not as atrocious as today’s 63%.
Here we are at the ten-year anniversary of the fall of Apartheid. The folks in Hollywood rejoiced their role in convincing our people to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, thus creating excess misery in a land 10,000 miles away.
Before democracy, the South African black population boasted the highest per-capita income on the entire African continent. Despite crippling economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the U.N., South African blacks enjoyed the highest literacy rate on the continent. Nearly all blacks had jobs, and supported themselves. Granted their living standard sucked by western standards do to the sanctions heralded by such economic Einstein’s as Susan Sarandon. Sanctions seldom destroy the rich, mainly the poor.
South Africa now owns the continent’s largest welfare state and labor union movement. As a direct result the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 43%. Starvation is out of control despite rich natural and agricultural resources.
Tax rates imposed by majority rule broke the business people. Nelson Mandela lost his temper at factory owners and skilled workers who moved to a friendlier business climate. Evidently even a half starved dog runs away when kicked enough at home.
I talked to a friend who remains a citizen of South Africa. He told me his son took an entrance exam for medical school and scored in the top 90%, but was told they couldn’t take more students of his skin color. If his skin color were that of the majority, his score would only have to be in the top 65% to enter, so much for majority rule making sense.
He told me, “My cousin is a South African who teaches college engineering classes. He was told he could not apply for an open position at a local University, because of his minority skin color.” This open teaching position had no other applicants and remained open when he left that rotten democracy to come to America where he now teaches engineering courses at a University in Colorado.
“The poorest people in my country had it better under Apartheid. Democracy leads to mass starvation. If this is what democracy is about then I want nothing to do with it.” Remains the quote he gave me that I found most moving.
Today 50% of the population lives below the poverty level. Ten years of democracy in South Africa shaved ten years off the average life expectancy. Let’s do the math; you have a country of 43 million people. They live 10 years less because of a socialist system. That’s a loss of 430 million life years. Divide that by 55, the old life expectancy, and you have 781,818 killed lifetimes. Now take the new infant mortality rate, subtract from it the pre-democracy one, and multiply it times the current population of 43 million. That’s another 989,000 lifetimes gone, for a total of 1,770,818 destroyed lifetimes, almost all of which belonging to poor black folks. The remaining people get to vote, is the trade worth it?
I wonder if U2’s Bono and all the Hollywood liberals who work the citizens of this country into a frantic tizzy over social justice in Africa realize they are directly responsible for the death of over 1.7 million impoverished black people.
When one of these murderers comes on my television to accept some humanity award I want to scream at them. The real heroes in this world create jobs and raise the market for labor. You know these people, they’re the ones the media points to like criminals and demonized by Hollywood.