YOU are in the flow of Living History! The future of Human Rights & Free Democracy worldwide is being set RIGHT NOW, and YOU can help make sure they stop eroding away! Learn DEMOCRACY 101 and Join a Worldwide Movement of Human-Rights-Educated Citizen Voters Standing Up in Global Solidarity to Ensure Human Rights & Democracy Last Forever on Their Firm Foundations in Traditional Western Values. READ AND THOUGHTFULLY REFLECT ON JUST A FEW PAGES OR SECTIONS OF THE DENSELY-PACKED DEMOCRACY 101 EACH DAY AS A "CRASH COURSE" IN FUNDAMENTALLY DEMOCRATIC THINKING, AND IN A FEW MONTHS YOU WILL HAVE THE SOLID HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION FOR LASTING FREE DEMOCRACY WHICH TODAY'S VOTERS NEED. BECOME A CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS & FREEDOMS QUICKLY WITH THE MERELY 20-PAGE CONTENTS SUMMARY.Enjoy this updated 5th Printing of the still-unedited historic "Emergency First Edition" of William Baptiste's DEMOCRACY 101, written in response to rapidly accelerating 'Creeping Totalitarianism' worldwide since 2015 and featuring the first publication of The Pledge of Allegiance to Democracy; The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy and The Core Principles of Lasting Democracy; and The WINNING STRATEGY for the 'Culture of Life' to WIN the 'Cultural War' with the 'Culture of Death, ' to Save Humanity Forever from Bigotry and 'Creeping Totalitarianism.' Remember: - - We can no longer afford to take for granted that Democracy, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights will somehow just last if we do nothing to make them last.- - Any democracy that wants to remain a democracy long-term must keep its politicians accountable to democratic foundations and teach these foundations to its citizens. OUR WESTERN DEMOCRACIES HAVE UTTERLY FAILED ON BOTH COUNTS. DEMOCRACY 101 is both a voter's course in democracy's foundations and a politician's Manual for Lasting Democracy to correct this failure.- - There is NO FRUIT WITHOUT ROOTS; we cannot long keep the wonderful fruit of Human Rights and Democracy without deep roots in the Traditional Western Values from which they historically and logically grew in the first place. DEMOCRACY 101 is here to re-familiarize Westerners with these roots. (DEMOCRACY 101 is thoroughly NON-PARTISAN, and merely calls ALL political parties worldwide to get back to their democracy's ROOTS if they have strayed)- - DEMOCRACY 101 demonstrates with undisputed facts & sound logic that the vast weight of the facts of History, Science & Logic support Traditional Western Values as absolutely ESSENTIAL to Lasting Democracy and we only need to become EDUCATED ourselves and spread this education to others until there are enough EDUCATED voters that uneducated and illogical 'totalitarian creep' politicians will no longer get enough votes (from uneducated voters) to keep dismantling democracy in their ignorance as they have been for so long. Non-partisan thinker, logician & Human Rights scholar William Baptiste in 2015 predicted ANY FUTURE PANDEMIC would be misused to restrict and ultimately end Free Democracy (and evidence-based Science), as we are seeing today, because politicians & political parties ignorant of The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy (or the foundations of Science) back then were already legislating away normal democratic freedoms of speech, expression, assembly, conscience & religion (and already ignoring hard Science when making public policy). The very month of DEMOCRACY 101's initial short-run printing in 2017 saw still-in-force laws passed in only 3 weeks which resulted in him giving a eulogy at the funeral of an elderly man who died awaiting trial after being arrested for peacefully carrying signs advocating Free Speech. In March 2020 yet another region in his country passed a similar anti-democratic law, this time in in only 8 days, March 2-10, 2020. Let's educate and end this madness with Human Rights Education for Lasting Free Democracy!
About the Author: Before his Ph.D. studies at the Sheptytsky Institute and being a professor at Dominican University College (where he replaced Dr. Andrew Bennett, appointed Canada's Ambassador of Religious Freedom), William Baptiste got his Master's Degree with Honors at Franciscan University of Steubenville (FUS), where the Philosophy Chair testified in writing to the University President of "his tremendous academic talent" and "considerable power of mind;" a genius IQ which he has since used to discern and lay out clearly from the tangled webs of historical details the "golden threads" woven throughout history that give us all our Human Rights and democratic freedoms. At FUS, the famous Dr. Scott Hahn wrote William's work was "outstanding," "excellent," "clear, thoughtful and thorough," and the Theology Chair Dr. Alan Schreck endorsed William's educational Donum Veritatis - The Gift of Truth Ministries "as an effective and important means to spread the faith and to promote Christian unity... It really is a 'gift' to the 'Internet Generation.'" He was invited three times to the ecumenical Springtime of Faith Rome Summits (Catholic and Evangelical Christian leaders meeting with Vatican Officials) for being considered "one of the dynamic leaders building the New Springtime of Faith." He recently founded Human Rights and Freedoms Forever! in response to accelerating attacks on human life and freedom throughout the West since 2015. Having taught a course in the Formal Science of Logic, he reminds all those who would read his above Christian qualifications and be tempted to simply dismiss his book DEMOCRACY 101 merely on that basis (instead of engaging with its powerful facts and logic with intellectual honesty), that to do so is to commit what the Science of Logic calls the "genetic fallacy" combined with circular reasoning, known as "Bulverism." He suggests "No intellectually honest person can deny Western Human Rights and freedoms start with The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy identified herein, which Christianity introduced into the West, and only the intellectually dishonest would dismiss this book lightly and without engaging with its undisputed scientific and historical facts and sound logic. But LASTING Democracy, religious freedom, and Human Rights for all requires that in response to current 'Creeping Totalitarianism' this book starts a DIALOGUE in Western nations about just how to ensure these highest of Western values last for the long-term.