[cunning_fish]

As soon as “R” is working so hard to eradicate itself it looks more like a classic One Party Dictatorship.

[vannrox]

Sorry about the HTML errors. THe quotation marks are rendered as funny characters as this...(”). Please don’t flame. It’s been a while since I really gave a good posting, and I’m a bit rusty.

My computer keeps switching back and forth from Chinese and English and thus it was a bit difficult to compile up. I know that there are errors and that maybe this will anger some people. I’m just basically pretty distraught at what is going on in the USA. I see a president who actually thinks that the federal Government is a Democracy... Who thinks that a 14% unemployment rate is a sign of progress, and who wants to start yet another endless war in Asia.

Nothing ever changes...

[samsmom]

What about China’s one child rule and local party leaders who enforce it. What about China’s strict controls over the Internet? What about due process in China. I agree the U.S. is less free and the government passes laws that apply to us but not them, but China more free? Not believable. We the people should insist that any law congress passes should apply to them as well.

[stockpirate]

Fascism rules the day in America.

[Fzob]

It’s pretty much a one party rule. There are a few in DC that are working to change things but the fact that some call themselves either Republican or Democrat is mere window dressing to create a differentiation to market themselves and pull in dollars.

Other than the illusion of a difference they are all statists of varying degrees.

[Chad N. Freud]

I stopped reading right here:

“Refuse to show ID.
In China you can do it, and no one will bat an eye.”

WHAT???

Also, glancing down, I have a completely different interpretation of the meaning of the Ninth Amendment.

[Vermont Lt]

Just figuring this out?

[Iron Munro]

Only one party, The Big Government Party

Two branches:

Democrat - Practice what they preach

Republican - Preach like moderates, govern like democrats

[Sherman Logan]

Their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification.

This is incorrect. The single biggest difference between a dictator and the ordinary magistrates was that a dictator was NOT liable to lawsuit for misuse of power after leaving office. All other magistrates were.

[joethedrummer]

I haven’t been to China, but I’ve worked for months at a time in Europe.
This is a really good article.
We here in the USA have many more ‘Comforts’ than the rest of the world has. But we are frogs in the frying pan. And I for one am feeling that the heat has been notched up enough for me to KNOW that things are slightly more than past the point of discomfort. -It smarts now. All the time.

The point that the German people didn’t realize they had been taken over by a dictatorship really hits home. They THOUGHT they’d “ELECTED” someone via the party. Just like here.
Who still really believes we actually have a say in our nominees??? They appoint them and we play the game of ‘election’, thinking we’ve done our duty.

It seems to me that the Chinese have learned to allow creature comfort ‘freedoms’ to keep the people from getting fed up. Here, they are doing just the opposite. And folks are getting riled up. Which is why this 2nd Amendment battle is being waged so intensely. They KNOW that if they fail to confiscate our means of protection, that the people in this country are being pushed far enough to start pushing back soon.
I truly fear for my children.

[Notary Sojac]

What we have are the two wings of the Perpetual Incumbency Party.

[Wurlitzer]

The USA only has one political party, the Government party.

This ruling elite party has a left and right wing.

The left wing is filled with people who believe they are enlightened and all others are ignorant but as with everything else the left believes in, they are 100% wrong.

The right wing of the ruling elite leans to the right on occasion not because of a moral or political compass but they lean because they have no spine.

[trubolotta]

We have descended to rule by a single party doctrine of elitism. Most people understand that and while you make some good points, you seem to miss some very important underlying points. I'll just mention a few examples.

I too miss my beer and smokes because the more fundamental right, that of property, is infringed. The restaurant owner has lost that right which is far more important to me than the right to light up. Let the restaurant owner decide that. But your comparison to China and such “rights” dilutes the fundamental argument of property, including the most basic right that I own myself. What property rights are there in China? I'm not saying we don't have a property rights problem here, but let's not compare apples to oranges.

Is there a 1st amendment right to leak state secrets? We could debate what are legitimate state secrets and there are far too many things classified as secrets that should not be, but China has its state secrets as well. You don't mention McCain-Feingold, which is far more important to me than any right to pornography.

I could go on and while I agree with you in basic principle, I think your example of China being more free would be seized by some as a reason we should be more like China. I definitely don't want that. Nonetheless, this is a good post and helps hone in on what is really important though I think it misses the point in some of the examples you give.

[Rome2000]

Republicans are the blue blood country club banker faction of the Washingtonians, and Democrats are the communist faction of the Washingtonians.

It's us outside the Beltway against the Washingtonians from both parties.

It's time to stop looking to DC for solutions to the problems those degenerate sons of bitches in DC have created in the first place.

Its time to think about ways to accelerate the collapse because only then can the Republic be reset and the Franchise limited as the Founders intended.

Nothing comes from DC other than higher taxes and more restrictions on our freedoms.

European Kings and Queens moved their courts to different parts of their realms, yet our masters in the political class remain entrenched on the Potomac and extort trillions of dollars every year from the productive class.

The productive class are now all slaves to DC and the Federal apparatchiks in Maryland and Virginia.

The greatest threat to the Liberty and Prosperity of the productive class are not a bunch of demented ragheads in the middle east, but the Federal apparatus.

Ted Kennedy (Suffer in Hell you degenerate MF) not only managed to murder Mary Jo Kopechne but is responsible for the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ensured that white non comsymps would be the minority in terms of future immigration to the USA.

Since nobody seems to have a clue in the GOP that this is a problem and much less intends to do anything about it, the war is lost and the collapse is inevitable.

The Washingtonians from both parties intend to steal everything not nailed down from those outside DC and then bug out under military protection when the collapse comes and the riots start.

An electorate that elected Clinton and Obama twice and gave algore the popular vote is no different than the Venezuelans and Cubans electing Chavez and Castro; stupid and dangerous.

It's all over but the shouting for the 1st American Republic, it is predictably self destructing due to the imposition of Universal Suffrage.

Honest Ape mortally wounded the Republic when he brutally attacked and murdered the sons of the Founders, the last 150 years has been merely death rattle.