[dead]

Don't even bother asking me any questions about this juvenile drivel. I made it to about the tenth paragraph before my exploded at how effing clueless this moron is about our country.

I'm just so happy he moved to Australia so he can annoy them with his clove cigarettes and espresso, and his beret and the loving talk of Che, and his faux-poor, Chilean pancho that he wears when it rains, and his straggley hair that he washes only once a week or so, and the incense that he burns while he reads Sylvia Plath with a tear in his eye.

[Tijeras_Slim]

How am I going to work or FReep today... now that my eyes' have glazed over?

[bigeasy_70118]

It also gives them an unfair weight in questions the Senate settles without input from the House of Representatives,

Harvard grad=ignorant of US History. The Constitution which sets forth the makeup of Senate and House is the result of a compromise between the large states and smaller ones. Why would Wyoming stay in the Union, if CA had 25 senators to their 1?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

All I needed to see was the reference to Chomsky - I gave up then.

[BADROTOFINGER]

American democracy had deep flaws long before the 2000 election. For instance, each of our 50 States elects two of the country's 100 senators. Wyoming's 500 000 residents elect two senators. California has 68 times the population of Wyoming; its 34 million residents also elect two senators. This means each Wyoming resident has 68 times more weight than a Californian in choosing the country's 100 senators. Instead of 'one man one vote', we have 'one man 68 votes'.

I quit reading at this point. What a complete moron...JFK

[Lil'freeper]

California has 68 times the population of Wyoming; its 34 million residents also elect two senators. This means each Wyoming resident has 68 times more weight than a Californian in choosing the country's 100 senators. Instead of 'one man one vote', we have 'one man 68 votes'.

That's as far as I got. What a flipping moron! Does the think he's the first to discover this dirty little secret? I wonder if it's occured to him that this system was designed on purpose? Not that it matters. If America is sick, it is because it pays too much heed to Europeans and academia's Elitist Snobs.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...corrupt politicians, fearful citizens, unchecked corporations, crumbling social services. These are big problems for a nation that plays such a dominating international role...

He forgot stupid Frenchmen.

Guns, on the other hand, are the proper medicine for curing these ills.

[11B3]

Anyone who uses Chomsky as a reference should be euthanized.

[dead]

We owe nothing to a piece of paper; we owe it to ourselves and our children to provide the conditions for a good life. The supreme law of the land must evolve to serve people's needs. The longer we keep the Constitution in its present shape, the more it becomes like a cult.

Again, thank you God for sending this twit to Australia.

I honestly feel like throwing a going away party for this guy, who already left and I’ve never even met.

I’ll even pick up the bar tab.

[Billthedrill]

Somebody wasn't paying attention in grade school - the reason that we have both proportionate and disproportionate representation in the U.S. government is as old as the country and is basic to its foundations. This babe in arms has evidently just discovered it and is wondering at his own cleverness in doing so. Sad, really.

[facedown]

I made it to about the tenth paragraph before my (head?) exploded at how effing clueless this moron is about our country.

You're far more patient than I. I didn't make it past the title.

[Paul Ross]

His first mistake is the primary one. We are NOT a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic. Second, our voter turnout is a direct result of the Leftist attack on our country, infiltrating government and both parties, and the media, disillusioning voters as to their being a difference. And then, along with the Chomsky stuff, his bizarre contentions that "Democrats have expelled the more progressive from their ranks". Since when? Does Al Gore know he has been expelled yet? Does Charles Schumer, and Barbara Boxer, or Patty Osama Momma Murray, Patrick Leahy or Tom Daschle and the whole raft of Congressional Socialknow they have been expelled? That they are hypocrites is not in doubt. But that they are sincere hypocrites is what the author misses. They actually believe in and reinforce their self-delusions that they are 'helping' the 'poor'.

[Porterville]

Excerpt from The IHO Syndrome, chapter 2: The cradle of democracy

And all that time I thought we were a REPUBLIC

[Porterville]

REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY

IF LIBERAL PLEASE LOOK UP IN DICTIONARY

[MarkL]

The one thing that I'm constantly amazed at is how leftist keep droning on about the Rich get their riches from the poor...

If they're poor, where did they get the money that the rich keep taking?

Mark

[bigeasy_70118]

No offense to any freepers with the name but I am always wary of guys named Julien.

[mtbopfuyn]

Both French and American, Julien Ninio has an MBA from Harvard. He was a financial markets trader in Tokyo and a start-up CEO in San Francisco. He left the United States for Australia six weeks after the September 11 attacks and now lives in Sydney.

Notice he's not lived in the land of his forefathers. You know, that country that supports evil dictators, spits on the graves of those who saved their rears more than once, and lets 11,000 of their elderly die in one summer; France.

[gdc61]

something grey just ran out my ear..oh my god! my brain is melting! aaaaaahhhhh

[hosepipe]

[ The longer we keep the Constitution in its present shape, the more it becomes like a cult. We need not even trash the present document. We can use it to write a final Amendment that passes on the baton to a New Constitution, thus allowing the old one to take on a ceremonial role and retire gracefully. ]

This book must be Sandra Day O'Connors epiphany. The author, Sandy's new mentor....

What a drama Queen this guy is... Rip Taylor dressed as Cornel West.. Would be a good opening act for the coming democrat convention though...

[Ichneumon]

He argues that the symptoms can be traced to a powerful cocktail of ignorance, hypocrisy and obedience - the "IHO syndrome".

At least he's shrewd enough to recognize that liberals are the core problem.

[mjp]

California has 68 times the population of Wyoming; its 34 million residents also elect two senators. This means each Wyoming resident has 68 times more weight than a Californian in choosing the country's 100 senators.

If any Californian is upset enough about that, they are free to move to Wyoming.