Okay, so tonight I'm going to piss off at least three quarters of my friends. I'm talking about my Republican friends. I personally know only a few Republicans wealthy enough to correctly believe that the Republican party is looking out for their best interests. All of the rest have been duped into believing that their party actually represents them. The true Republican power brokers don't care if your daughter, sister, or wife has a abortion. They don't really believe that giving homosexuals the right to marry undermines the sanctity of marriage. Their moral compass is no truer than mine, regardless of whether they claim to be born again or not. All of these things are just side issues designed to keep voters on their team. The real issue is the amassing of wealth, and hanging onto to that wealth no matter what happens to the country.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against wealth. I understand that our prosperity depends upon people, and institutions, and corporations with vast amounts of capital. Without that capital, we would stagnate, nothing would be built, no new products would be introduced, research and innovation would die. But, money is power, and can be used for good or evil. The evil that see taking place, is the conversion of our country to third world status where there are only two classes, the ultra rich and the very poor. This is an insidious objective that affects more of us every year.
After suffering through 12 years of Republican legislative rule, and eight years of the dismal failure of the Bush administration, the Democrats finally returned to power under President Obama. Now, only a year after his election, the Republican party threatens to regain it's lost power. It's time to forget about the Trojan horses of homosexuality and abortion. We cannot allow the Republican party to regain power in this country. Our children's and grand children's future depends on us.
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If I am correct.I think that the thirld world countries are the ones that have the type of government that the Democrats are trying to force on this country.Perhaps both parties should get back to the principles that this country was founded on and quit trying to see which one can ruin the country first. We the people have allowed both parties to govern outside of their authority.
ReplyDeleteSoooo, Republicans don't spend money, don't invest their money.... what are you smoking?
ReplyDeleteDemocracy. It's a term that all of us have heard in one way or another. We've all heard government propaganda spewing that the United States is a democracy or that we're the defenders of democracy. Unfortunately, that's not true. Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines democracy as:
ReplyDeleteMain Entry: de·moc·ra·cy
Pronunciation: di-'mä-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -cies
Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dEmokratia, from dEmos + -kratia -cracy
Date: 1576
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
Now at first sight, the definition seems to fit our system of government to the letter. After all, we elect representatives to exercise power, don't we?
No, we don't. The United States is officially defined as a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Furthermore, this is not a government by the people or even for the people; it is a government based on law. A key example of this is the fact that elected officials do not swear to uphold the will of the people, but rather they are sworn to uphold the United States Constitution, a document of law.
Yet despite all these facts, the United States is slowly transforming itself into a democracy, and my friends, that is a fundamentally bad thing. You see, in a democracy, we are left to the whim of the masses, and the masses are quite frankly.....stupid as flock. The masses make unintelligent decisions. The masses make decisions designed for their individual benefit - not for the benefit of the nation as a whole. The famous quote by Alexander Tyler outlining the fall of the Athenian Democracy holds true for the 'democracy' of the United States.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
None of you can read that quote and tell me that the above is not true. Today, the voters have discovered that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury in the form of social programs. They vote only for the candidates that promise them the most stuff (Democrats, and to an extent, Republicans). There's a reason why poor people vote Democratic, and it's because the Democrats promise to take more money from the prosperous in the form of taxes and then use that money for social programs. The same thing holds true for the Republicans, who only promise money to a different set of people.
And that, my friends is what has happened to the United States. We have shifted from a nation of laws to a nation of mob rule, where the ignorant masses vote for people who promise them the most stuff.