bpnjensen wrote:
On May 16, 4:33 pm, wrote:
Of Course I feel that way.I do NOT Lie.

You really condemn democracy?



I can't speak for Cuhu.

But James Madison certainly condemned democracy. So did Mencken and
Saki and many others. And so do I.

If the majority is allowed to seize your property or make its
opinions into law whenever it so chooses, how is that different from
an autocracy? (With an autocrat, bad as that system is, at least you
have a _chance_ that the ruler will be wise or benevolent or both.
With democracy, there is no chance whatsoever.)

That is why the founders opposed democracy and gave us a
constitution that would protect us from it, just as much or more as
it protected us from would-be kings.

They tied down the government with the stringent chains of the
Constitution, which, especially the Tenth Amendment, severely
restricted the areas in which government could do anything at all.

But politicians, notably Lincoln and the Great War Criminal but also
many others including G.W. Bush and Obama, have found that, through
bluster, intimidation -- and packing the court (and the law schools)
with those whose main goal was avoiding the founders' strictures --
they could get away with trashing the Constitution on almost every
level.

The result is that we now do indeed have the "democracy" that the
founders were trying to avoid; with the thoughtless majority easily
manipulated into doing almost anything the ethnically distinct media
masters want them to do.

The result is that we openly tolerate the invasion of our southern
border while we slaughter innocents by the hundreds of thousands in
the Middle East who never constituted even a slight threat to America.

The result is that we have a National Security surveillance state
which arrogates to itself the right to "monitor" almost everything
we say and do, and spy on our formerly private transactions and
interactions.

The result is that we now have almost totally given up the right of
freedom of association and must hire and buy and sell and send our
children off to school all in accordance with our masters' latest
arcane formulations based on the race and ethnicity of their "subjects."

The result is indefinite detention without trial.

The result is "extrajudicial rendition."

The result is Predator drone attacks on apartment buildings
containing mothers and children.

The result is the openly admitted ordering of the assassination of
an American citizen by one of those Predator drones.

Yes, I condemn "democracy" as it currently exists in the country
which is, quite anachronistically, still called by the name "United
States of America."


With all good wishes,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
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http://kevinalfredstrom.com/