Posted on 08/13/2014 9:10:13 AM PDT by upchuck
I really like your idea about the Several States.
Like I said...are you really going to trust the pols in DC to write term limits? We already have it...right now. If the electorate becomes engaged then things will change. Our system of govt is based on an engaged electorate. If that part doesnt work dont expect the rest to.
Its surprising how many here talk down about DC until they find themselves in a hard place then look to the same corrupt outfit for a bail out. Really FR is no better than DU in the ‘quality’ of participants. Theyre all running after more civil govt.
Hopeless, we can only hope they will throw their scraps in our direction and pray they do not try a final solution on us.
Then for you theres no way out. Hope you enjoy being a slave. Im sure you can find it easy to rationalize.
With all due respect, you're messed in the head.
Not really. Its the same kool-aid drinking silliness in both places. FR gives you a healthy helping of republican fan boys and delusional conspiracy types. DU gives you dem fan boys and delusional types. Its all the same thing.
I only have one disagreement with the article... we aren’t a democracy, we are a Republic.
So off the point it’s laughable.
Advertisers (a ‘business interest” I suppose) control EVERYTHING in the public square.
Whatever government policies take savings and turn them into spending make the media and it’s advertisers the most money- and therefore are favorably presented to the public.
Nothing else in politics is remotely as dominating.
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!” - George Carlin
“strange angle of vision to torture that diagnosis out of our political predicament.”
Not at all.
The ‘public square’ is advertising-supported: TV, print. internet search engines...
Consumer spending supports advertising.
Investment and savings do not.
It’s not a coincidence that spending is always presented more favorably in the public square than investment and saving. Resulting in the imbalance we now have that causes most of the problems you mention.
“He who pays the piper”... “Show me where a man gets his cornpone”...
Unfortunately I don’t see an obvious corrective action to take except making people aware of this dynamic.
Amazing how much resistance there is to this blatant fact.
You’re telling me to get involved and to put down the video games?
How presumptuous.
<< You’re telling me to get involved and to put down the video games? How presumptuous. >>
I am sorry you took my comments personally. It was meant to be a generalization about apathy.
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