Posted on 06/12/2005 9:35:01 PM PDT by quidnunc
At least it's not the dreaded PORK!
Here's a good place to start...
The parliament system that other countries have is far inferior to America's, with our term limits and a directly elected president.
I am speaking about water logged chickens.
If that chicken did die trying to swim, we know for certain that it did so screaming, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
"I thought the story was supposed to teach us that its okay for ducks and chickens to intermarry."
If the chicken had gotten an operation to change it to a duck then everything would have been ok.
Exactly! To say that America's have different human nature that other nationalities is silly. Humans are Humans. And Humans in a democracy will eventually vote in Socialists, and then kill each other.
Humans in a Republic fare better.
It's a silly proverb, like the old Chinese one about a Frog and a Scorpian. The Scorpian needed help crossing the stream, a frog volunteers and midway across the stream the scorpian stings him and they both sink to their deaths..
Frog "I helped you, why did you sting me, now we will both die"
Scorpian "I'm a Scorpian, this is what I do"
It's typical apallogetics for Matieralism, which means idiotic. It excludes the Cowboy (American/Spiritualism).
Cowboy (scraping scorpian from bottom of his boot) "Son of a B' Scorpian!"
I could go on for a 1000 paragraphs on that topic.
I'll spare you. No point repeating what every body knows.
Yes, we are. The anti-authoritarians (ducks) take to water (freedom) naturally, whereas their cousin (chickens) don't. We are at a point where the chickens are about to drain the lake.
>>>>The Scottish Jurist and Historian Sir Alex Fraser Tyler published a collection of lectures in 1801. He advanced a theory of democracy based on historical observation: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury.
From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."<<<<
While it's difficult to imagine our country headed toward dictatorship, perhaps we'd simply invent a 'new' form...minus the Musolini(sp?) figurehead.
My hope is that a state (any state) will take the feds on, over an issue that will clearly expose their (feds) over-reaching powers. Once that happens, their house of cards would begin to fall. Barring that, the threat of secession should remain an option, as we retain that right. Our children deserve at least this much and our legacy should not include the shameful lack of resolve to make it happen.
Trouble-shooting what's wrong with this country isn't a problem. Getting people to wake up and vote for the solutions is.
If the two major parties are enthralled with communitarianism/huge central governmentalism, in the belief that it'll buy them votes (see: robbing the community chest above), then the only answer is to introduce a different party and expose them for what they are. Perhaps an even more radical idea: Propose that all state and federal employees be banned from voting in elections as a safeguard against 'porkerism'.
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