Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #2
Fri Aug 8, 2008 4:59 AM
Sir;.... If You can call the U.S. a democracy it is only because you have no sense of the meaning of the word. I don't care if you have a text book definition that says: Democracy; See the U.S.A.... The teeth of the U.S. government was pulled from the start in regard to doing good, but it bites no less. Look at the goals set forth in the constitution. Has it ever met the first one? Consider; we have a two hundred year old democratic like government, formed when this country had no major river bridged, and yet we have less democracy per person than that society offered, by a looong shot. Is there any other relics of the past you would like to worship, and love, and kiss with so little of miraculous effect?... Democracy is people having control of their own lives. It is self government. It is not government by proxy. Our republic offers people control over the lives of others. How is that democracy? Democracy is a defensive form of social organization; and Mr. Bush was right to say democracies do not attack their neighbors, but we do. In democracies, people consider the future so they can make the best decisions, and utilize their resources as is necessary; but we deny the future until it can no longer be avoided. There is nothing wrong about this country that could not be improved with democracy. It is foolish that so may elect so few and then wonder why government is not responsive to their needs. Actually, Aristotle said Good is the Object of Government. Not one labor union in this country would be necessary if the government would do its job, and ensure justice.... The government says the people are sovereign, which is to say they will, The Government Will, do as they please. We have the means to consent, as no one in this generation actually has, Not only to government; But to every law and statute and tax. Republics have only been a stepping stone to tyranny. We need democracy. We need every person able to give voice to their right and to give their rights defense. And no man should have any say over affairs not his own. Parties are a hold over from England, and are a constitutional, extraconstitutional facet of the government that inhibit, and do not facilitate, good government; and they make national issues out of regional issues, and even of personal issues, and deny to the people their rights. We have two deliberative bodies in Congress, as Washington said: to cool the democracy. And we have the parties, and the courts, neither of which are elected, -representing undemocratic prinipals and people, which has frozen the democracy to death. Lording over all are so many wealthy people who shun democracy in their work houses, and factories, and businesses; but who will ship it abroad at the point of a gun. They will not see themselves taxed to support the society that feeds them, or the infrastructure that gives them profit. They refuse to see justice, liberty, peace, or the general welfare come out of government. It is no wonder that even the Germans rejected our form of government and constitutional model after WWII. It is a failure. And our failures are the failures of government, not because it is democratic; but because it denies democracy. It is a pitiful shame that we cannot change the simple form by which we are ruled. It is for this land, and for this country, and for this nation, and for the world the greatest single tragedy time has ever written. Thanks.... Sweeney
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Posted by: Masako
Comment: #3
Sat Aug 9, 2008 9:48 AM
Important observations, Mr. Buchanan. What do voters pay most attention to? It's the economy, stupid. Keep people busy working, put a roof over their head, give them lots of consumer goods to buy and preferably a car (Hitler got even that one right), and bingo, who needs democracy or leaders who speak the truth? Follow the money. Too much of it has been stashed in too few pockets. One thing socialists get that the folks in your party don't is that bad things happen when you can't share.
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