Politics in America...Very troubling...

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by waste gate

I can't remember who said it, but it seems appropriate and accurate;

"Every country gets the government it deserves."

One can extrapulate from that the politicians and the political dialog.

You beat me to it! Argghh! I was just about to post that when I saw your post.

-S

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by tycho102

I personally think that is the problem -- they're NOT at each other's throats. We don't have enough physical confrontations in Congress.

I've mulled the issue over for awhile. Term limits aren't going to do a damn thing -- the entire system has to be altered. If you stood a good chance of getting your ass kicked when you stood up on the bench, politicans would have to have both moral and physical courage to hold their office.

If you watch the debates on the house floor, I'd have to disagree. They throw snide remarks at each other, then they march out into a press conference and talk about how bad the other party is doing, and not about what 'they' are doing. THat is what I mean by that.

-S

[Rockin Robbins]

Our problem is that we and most of the western world is busy pretenting that we are a "democracy" when we have not the education to know that democracy is two cats and a mouse voting over what's for dinner. Democracy and tyranny are identical in effect and both are equally to be avoided.

In a republic, the rights of the people are protected by laws, which have power over the people and the government. These laws protect the mouse from the two cats who would surely vote to eat him. When people start to disrespect law and start getting all starry-eyed at the concept of democracy, there is hell to pay.

Guess what: we're paying it. Ducimus quoted it. The public sucks. It is getting what it deserves. The average person on the street can talk for hours about the dynamics of "American Idol" and their eyes glaze over when you try to talk economics with them. They will throng to the polls without a clue of what they are voting for. The vote for Hillary because she is a woman or Obama because he is black or Rudy because they like his accent. They don't have the slightest idea what their candidate wants to accomplish. The entire western world is quite lucky we have it as well as we do. Only private enterprise is keeping us vital and free. Government is failing us all because we are failing our governments.

I will now follow Ducimus' example and return to the SH4 forums where sanity reigns.