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Richard Lyons - DNA of Democracy · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Author, well, actually jack of all trades. He's like a
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  Speaker 1: renaissance man. Richard Lyons. He is a graduate of Loyal
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  Speaker 1: Academy and went to the University of North Texas, graduated
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  Speaker 1: career at the Southern Methist University. A lifelong admirer of
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  Speaker 1: the written word, which led him to literary pursuits as
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  Speaker 1: a poet an sas screenwriter. He's a third generation printer
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  Speaker 1: whose father dedicated his life to education and publishing and
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  Speaker 1: telecommunication fields. My guest Mitch. Richard Lyons has also been
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  Speaker 1: involved in the printing trade, publishing stage and television production.
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  Speaker 1: See Renaissance Man. He is Richard Lyons, author of the
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  Speaker 1: series we're going to talk about today, the DNA of
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  Speaker 1: Democracy series at the three three volume series. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the show, sir. It's pleasure to have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Brian, good to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Now, would you do for my listening on into me
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  Speaker 1: a service? There's three of these in this series, the
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  Speaker 1: DNA of Democracy volume one, and you have Shadows of
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  Speaker 1: the Acropolis, which is the volume two in the series,
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  Speaker 1: and then finally Passages through the Shadows which is volume three.
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  Speaker 1: In what way are these divided by way? Of topics
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  Speaker 1: relating to the overarching subject of democracy.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Volume one Brian is all about how the Constitution
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  Speaker 2: was created from many elements in the history of humanity,
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  Speaker 2: going back to the Ten Commandments, the first common law
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  Speaker 2: of humanity, which entailed the obedience of king and priest
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  Speaker 2: as well as commoner. And it goes through Greece, and
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  Speaker 2: it goes through Rome, and it goes through the slow
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  Speaker 2: evolution of the common law in England based on the
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  Speaker 2: Magna Carta, and arrives in America among the Native Americans
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  Speaker 2: when the Pilgrims landed and the influence that they had
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  Speaker 2: on governance in America. And it arrives to the constitutional
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  Speaker 2: and Convention after the Revolution in seventeen eighty seven in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 2: And how are the Constitution was particularly they put together
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  Speaker 2: based on the histories of former democracies and republics and
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  Speaker 2: republics and all the virtuous governance based on government through
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  Speaker 2: the individual. Individuals determine what government they have. It's a
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  Speaker 2: question that goes back to Socrates, who rules who in
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  Speaker 2: our government? The individual and individuals in assembly through representation
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  Speaker 2: rule themselves. The government doesn't dictate to individuals what they
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  Speaker 2: can and cannot do yeah in a world that's it's
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  Speaker 2: what makes us unique.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think the Founding fathers demonstrate the value
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  Speaker 1: of being great students of history because they had all
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  Speaker 1: of these resource materials which they poured through. They study
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  Speaker 1: the differences in forms of in forms of government, found
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  Speaker 1: out where the evils sprung from, and ultimately this is
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  Speaker 1: the real selling point. I think, ultimately gave us the individual,
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  Speaker 1: the citizen, the right to control our own destiny, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a foreign concept even to this day globally.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not. It is the unique form of government
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  Speaker 2: and human history. The tale of human history is a
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  Speaker 2: history of tyranny. Brian that we turned the normal manner
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  Speaker 2: of governments throughout human history over into being one where
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  Speaker 2: the individual rules himself was the miracle that happened in
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia where fifty five representatives of thirteen New States brought
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  Speaker 2: all you're exactly right, all the historical material of every
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  Speaker 2: relevant library, personal and public into that convention center and
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  Speaker 2: poured over how do we best construct a government? And
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what they did, all right.
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  Speaker 1: And then pivoting over to volume two, Shadows of the
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  Speaker 1: Acropolo is curious about the name of how you came
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  Speaker 1: up with the shadowy the acropos hays the name, but
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  Speaker 1: also the great, great rhetorical questions I got in front
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  Speaker 1: of me, like, you know, how come this whole great
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  Speaker 1: experiment we have has sort of devolved into name calling
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  Speaker 1: and we just rather than reaching proper solutions to the
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  Speaker 1: appropriate democratic process, it's just born of hatred and violence.
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  Speaker 1: So what's this volume directed toward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's called Shadows of the Acropolis. Firstly, because the
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  Speaker 2: Acropolis is the ideal point in Volume one, where you
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  Speaker 2: have free trade, you have free thought in Athens and
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  Speaker 2: so forth. It was the ideal of classical democracy. And
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  Speaker 2: how it has changed in America in the past one
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  Speaker 2: hundred years is that since the presidency of Woodrow wilims Yees,
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  Speaker 2: socialism has been creeping into our society for one hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: He famously said in a quote that the Russians, the
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  Speaker 2: Bolsheviks did it wrong. They did socialism through revolution. In America,
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  Speaker 2: we can achieve the same end through evolution. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what they've been doing for one hundred years. They've been
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  Speaker 2: slowly taking power and wealth from individuals, localities, states, businesses
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  Speaker 2: and putting it in one place Washington, d C. Where
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  Speaker 2: there has become a concentration of power in the administrative state,
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  Speaker 2: an unenumerated branch of government. In other words, it's not
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution. And that is why whenever you have a
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  Speaker 2: concentration of power, it's us and them indeed, and there's
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  Speaker 2: infighting and when people feel they're not represented, Brian, that's
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  Speaker 2: when you come to difficulty. And now you have a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat party which has had all this power and has
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  Speaker 2: grown this power for one hundred years. Now when they
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  Speaker 2: don't when they can't win elections, they rig them. When
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  Speaker 2: they can't get what they want through constitutional process, they
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  Speaker 2: do it through rigging the system and through violence.
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  Speaker 1: They can't do it through. They can't do it through advocacy,
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  Speaker 1: logic and reason and winning over the hearts and minds
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  Speaker 1: of people because they have better ideas. Period, we reject
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  Speaker 1: those out of hand, and therefore they foist them upon
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  Speaker 1: us in violation to the very principles our countries founded upon,
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  Speaker 1: which sort of leads us. I believe the Passages through
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  Speaker 1: the Shadows, which is volume three, this where you discuss
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  Speaker 1: this kind of place where we seem to be now,
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  Speaker 1: this sort of questioning, this own beautiful experiment that's been
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  Speaker 1: so successful exactly so.
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  Speaker 2: Volume two ends with the orchestrated coup attempt against Trump
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  Speaker 2: and his first in his first presidency, and also goes
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  Speaker 2: into the lawfare period passages through the Shadows. Brian is
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  Speaker 2: the battlegrounds we find ourselves on today between our founding
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  Speaker 2: principles and where socialism is now going in this country.
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  Speaker 2: It's between. Literally, when you go to the end of
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  Speaker 2: volume two, I list on two pages that face each other,
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  Speaker 2: the traits of our founding liberty and the traits of
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  Speaker 2: tyranny and socialism. And they're not just assimilar, they are
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  Speaker 2: diametric opposites. And that is why we find ourselves, you know,
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  Speaker 2: largely through the media, at war with one another in
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  Speaker 2: our viewpoints because they are so opposite. So when you
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  Speaker 2: find the cornerstone of our founding, and I'll just be
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  Speaker 2: trying to be brief, is based on private property. Trump
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have survived the coup attempt if he didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the financial resources to do so. It broke associates of
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  Speaker 2: his A lot of his associates have gone broke defending
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  Speaker 2: themselves against the government who has all the tax base
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  Speaker 2: of America. To persecute people with Indeed, so public private
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  Speaker 2: property is the cornerstone of our freedoms. And in New
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  Speaker 2: York you see Mom Donnie just determining which landlord he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't particularly like and setting them aside for their property
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  Speaker 2: to be firstly regulated into poverty and.
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  Speaker 1: Then confiscated enemies lists. Boy, we haven't seen that out
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  Speaker 1: in the world before, have we, sir.
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  Speaker 2: The DNA the keystone of socialism.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it is. And then line them up and shoot them.
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  Speaker 1: Richard lyons the DNA Democracy Series Volumes one through three.
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  Speaker 1: We've made it really easy for my listeners to get them.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to get up my blog and webpage at
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  Speaker 1: fifty five PC dot iHeart dot com link right there.
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  Speaker 1: Please get a copy of these. He couldn't have written
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  Speaker 1: these this series at a better time, Richard. I wish
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  Speaker 1: they weren't necessary, but lord knows, we could certainly use
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  Speaker 1: a refresher course and a reminder of how important we
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  Speaker 1: have it, or how good we've got it here, and
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to face if we turn our backs
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  Speaker 1: on it. Richard, thank you for your time today and
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  Speaker 1: for writing this great series.