Did you know Machiavelli was a Christian?

By Warren A. Lyon.  Did you know Machiavelli was a Christian?   In democracies, everyone in addition to the candidates agrees to accept the anointed result of the ballot that is handed down by an abundance of trust in thy neighbor via the constitution. It is the anointed result. Everyone also has the right to be a citizen /boss of his own Chinese takeout or golf course. Drugs killed community in the 60's and 70's. Sex for cash changed indelibly church conferences and unions in the 2000's as people were told it was,some how, ok so long as you are discreet maybe. See 2 Timothy 4:3 and 1st Kings 13. In spite of the anointed result, there is need for good, unbiased law that protects and treats each citizen like an un-racialised variable in a simple equation with the good due process. What are the elements of the offence?-google it. What are the requirements for a divorce? Law is written and calculated on this basis with unracialized variables. This is how the English succeeded in the world's trust and have a news castor with a home county accent on every major news channel. How do you navigate the world or your city where there is no centralized power or government offering peace, order and good government, life, liberty, health and property? You navigate with the help of the Holy Ghost.  He referred to the spirit of virtu.  Jesus said to be wise as a serpent but as gentle as a dove.  It is not a little compliment to be called a student of Machiavelli or Machiavellian. See book 9; "And whoever considers well the authority which Romulus 
reserved for himself, will see that he did not 21 reserve anything
else other than the command of the army when war was decided upon, and of convening the Senate. This was seen at that time when Rome became free after the driving out of the Tarquins, where there was no other innovation made on the ancient institutions except that in place of an hereditary King there should be two Consuls (elected) each year. Which gives testimony that all the institutions at the origin of that City were more in conformity with a free and civil society than with an absolute and tyrannical one. Infinite examples could be given in corroboration of the things mentioned above, such as Moses, Lycurgus, Solon, and other founders of Kingdoms and Republics, who were able to formulate laws for the common good (only) by assigning the (necessary) authority to themselves: but I want to omit these as they are already well known."

Humanity and human behavior are the greatest truths to evidence
the bible being true and  as such, you can see more of humanity's teeth in any urban jungle where there is no central authority to enforce good laws and civil societies.

Hitler was not democratically elected although there were elections but this is the regularly digested myth. Fascism begins with fascist action, dictatorial coup-like action.  A democratic process may be the charade to achieve a fascist beginning with a fallacious result. Hitler was not freely elected.  You are free enough to tick the ballot but the process can be altered with levers and pulleys once everyone walks away from the polling station. You are free enough to give your opinion on the ballot and this is very satisfying if nothing more is involved. There is a lot of trust involved. Can you trust a polling officer whose favorite Tv program involves a serial killer called Dexter? What about the computer programmers? Democracy is not a myth but is key to what one theorist referred to as "...the mental projection of your digital self."   There could be such a thing as pure democracy where every vote registers as cast but ultimately what populations need to think about is demanding more from the myth or notion of democracy and its funders. It is a group effort to circumvent the worst of our obvious humanity.  It is not a myth but as a group effort, it is also not a televised NCAA basketball game where everyone can count the points going on the board after each basket during the game. You need to trust granny to enter the information on her laptop while she counts the ballots as a polling officer and she won't miscount while she sips her tea. You also need to trust her to write it down correctly in her notebook before she transcribes it  into her MS Word '97 document that is never opened, altered or manipulated by anyone but her self. There are a lot of people to trust and there should be enough time to count the ballots or the blue, green or red pulses that might be sent in by smart phone very soon using the democratic voting app provided  and designed by IBM.  The truth is that the result is so hi up in the stratosphere that all people will still benefit from the safeguarded democratic freedoms since commerce needs you to be free enough and happy enough as a  well protected and well informed consumer.  If you can't benefit  perfectly from the truth, myth or fiction of democracy as it is, it might be because Herod(as in the bible) showed up and is afraid of loosing  his personal, assumed authority to the promise that there is enough faith and power in Christ that everyone can be safe enough to feel like they are safe enough to love their neighbor as themselves and consume. That is why the phone is called a smart phone with a bible app also readily available so you can be smarter and faster in getting to the outlet malls with built in sat-nav. But you socialize much less with the phone in hand, as studies show and you make less average daily eye contact with the humans around you. You are a consumer first; a citizen second. The environment needs its minimum safeguards for the sake of commerce since there is no point in utilizing any technology or fuel system that threatens in the long term the joy of life, a sunny clean beach, the joy of a ragtop convertible on the beach or the joy of using the said technology. This includes vehicles.  Who wants a sun roof when the sky is full of smog or a ragtop on a dirty crude-oil soaked beach with all the beaches polluted or a beach with dead coral? The environment (and this includes energy) is not a political issue that can swing from one extreme to the next in terms of policies. This is also true of civil rights and habeus corpus laws. George Washington paid the ultimate price to prevent the arbitrariness of "stand your ground" laws and other presumptive legal trojans that achieve backwardness.   It is a centralized issue that is well seated in the hands of mandarins who might sit in a state department or something like that maybe.   There is nothing more sacred to democracy than all the time that it takes to count the sacred ballot. Who could declare that there is insufficient time to achieve the sacred process?  We need to keep the process, the due process, sacred or else Hitler or Herod is your daddy.