Posted on 08/03/2011 8:24:22 AM PDT by IbJensen
The Republicrats allow their leftist Democrat buddies to have their way most of the time. They are experts at being snookered! We are the ones who lose, however, while they continue on in the career that should never have been!
Where's our Franco?
Jefferson was the biggest exponent of democracy in the Founder’s generation. It isn’t for nothing that he is considered the founder of the Democrat party.
Republicans rarely have the opportunity to stop the Democrats from having their way because the ignorant electorate insists on electing the RAT crooks over and over.
Republicans can do nothing when the electorate is filled with fools.
One simple solution would be no voting rights for parasites; if you habitually take more from the government (theft from your fellow citizens), then you lose the right to vote.
AKA No Representation without Taxation.
No poll tax, but an IQ test. Anyone falling below 100 gets kicked out.
Most of this “Democracy” Feces can be traced back to Alex Hamilton. This individuals in American History who I personnally DESPISE are:
1. Alex Hamilton
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Buchanan
4. “Teddy” Roosevelt
5. Woodrow Wilson
6. FDR
7. LBJ
8. Bush 41(he squandered Reagan’s legacy)
9. Clinton
10. Bush 42 (squandered promise)
11. Obama
Much truth in this article but whether democracy or republic, what we’ve actually been doing is electing financial distribution managers to an ever expanding bureaucracy. Democrats and Republicans are elected to fill exactly the same positions, the only difference is in how much to increase a few programs that are favored by one side or the other.
Pretty good despise list though I’d put Nixon ahead of Clinton. The man not only fully funded LBJ’s welfare state but gave us disasterous wage and price controls. At least, Clinton signed welfare reform.
"It can only exist until the voters discover
that they can vote themselves largesse
from the public treasury."
You left out Carter and Nixon?
Good read bump
Carter was just an incopantant BOOB(ya just can’t fix STUPID). OK Nixon goes on the list. O an it should be Bush 43
I just can’t type today.
I usually cringe when I hear people talk about “our democracy”. This country was never intended to have or be governed by a “democracy”— but a representative Constitutional republic—or at least used to be. But then again, people only know what they’ve heard parroted to them without bothering to find out what it means or what are the true differences. This is why people make great fodder—they line up like ducks to be shot—one by one.
I think you have to cut Andrew Jackson a little slack, since he did stand up against the banksters. At least he got that part right!
A very true and proper listing.
Politicians either serve their puppet masters or their constituents. If their puppet masters are greedy short-term focused a-holes and their constituents are lazy short-term focused parasites then they will make the same decisions regardless of how they got into office.
Somehow believing that senators chosen by governors would be smarter or more honorable than senators chosen by citizens is wishful thinking.
Focusing any attention on whether or not the electoral system is undermined by efforts to get states to have all their electors vote for the candidate with the most votes is also wasteful. Just look at past history and the candidate with the most electors has almost always been the candidate with the most votes.
The real estate bubble was a perfect example of how everyone, from the bottom to the top, participated in a massive Ponzi scheme to everyone's disadvantage except the few at the top. We are no smarter than the stupid Albanians who got caught up in their Ponzi scheme a decade before us.
The only real alternative to a system based on voting by the people is something like a monarchy. Something like they have in China and Singapore. It may turn out that those types of governments work out better in the long run, but that's just not going to happen in the US unless we have total economic collapse.
I agree that we shouldn't be spending any money shoving democracy down the throats of any other countries. That is decidedly un-conservative. Only the modern day Wilsonian neo-cons are still daft enough to support that.
Instead of hoping for some hail mary pass like a balanced budget amendment, term limits, or enforcement of the 9th and 10th amendments we need to work each bill on a case-by-case basis to weed out the bad ones and help through the good ones.
The good news about a democracy is that everyone has the opportunity to become part of the shadow puppet master ruling class. All you need to do is forget that you are an American, see America not as a country to defend but a carcass to scavenge, and start acting like a vulture.
Either that or give up, go on welfare, and spend your days drinking cheap beer in front of the TV.
We have what Ortega y Gasset called ‘hyper democracy’
Wouldn't help. I know plenty of libtards who could pass a standard IQ test.
Now, a test on American history and the Constitution ought to do the job. The subjects of the state educational system were never taught the important parts.
Fasten your seatbelts everyone!
Why the reflexive, Pavlovian, hysterical reaction to Alexander Hamilton at this forum?
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