Posted on 07/24/2014 10:52:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Depends on HOW BIG the goverrnment is and what restrictions are placed on the government when it is setup...
If a Democracy is setup wrong it will quickly slide into a totalitarianism regime.
If it is setup as a method of selecting leaders in a Republic it will take longer to slide...
Lotta what its.
“What do we do about it?For most people it will be get another cold one from the fridge and turn on ESPN.Some people may go hunting.
Here is one solution.
All laws and regulations not put in the consitution have an expiration date no greater than 24 years.
So any bill in congress will expire in 24 years or less depending on how long they were approved for and have to be voted on again.
This ensures that the crappy regulations will have to die at some point.
Maybe even settign the expiration to less than 24 years, maybe 12 years (two terms of a senator) and term limit the people in power as well...
What if....???
CW-II, that’s what if if what if.
Where you have a one-party setup, whether de jure or de facto, then no republic can stand. The Uniparty of the Democrats and the GOP-e mimics one-party states precisely, as does the European Union with its pretense of multi-party parliamentary “democracy”—but the EU never pretended to have separation of powers, though.
[ What if Judge Andrew Napolitano actually would make a statement if he has something to say? ]
What if the Judge is asking questions as a way of making us think?
This article is written in the format of one of the Judge’s Segments when he had his Show on Fox Business.
It is a Rhetorical Question type segment that is actually quite clever because it asks questions they you fill in with your own mind and it leads you come to the same conclusion the questioner has already come to.
Democracy is wrong.
That’s why our Founding Fathers set up a limited government constitutional republic.
They knew mob rule would bankrupt the country.
And they were right.
We are at the end of the slide. We will either choose to lay in the sand or make the long climb back to the top. Most will choose the sand.
Any discussion about how “Gridlock is bad” is basically saying that robust discussion and how disagreement is a bad thing is the New Speak of Neo-Tyrants....
If everyone in government agrees it is a bad day when they start discussing ways to take things away from the citizens because they will ALL agree to do so....
It is like how a majority of politicians think amnesty is a great thing, but the majority of the populace disagree.....
If there is no gridlock on the decision to cut the collective citizen’s throats it is soon a tyranny.
At the end of the day, power gets over concentrated till there is a reaction. After the reaction, the State fails as smaller units of power devour it.
Soon, those small units will band together in order to fight and consume other units till you have a State again.
This is history. The outward forms typically don’t matter.
We are on the downswing, and heading (I believe) to a “dark” age.
+1
BFL
I wished he used the term "republic" rather than "democracy."
What if we could free ourselves from the yoke of big government through a return to First Principles?"
Democracies don’t work!!!
Only a Constitutional Republic works!
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