[mnehring]

I just realized after that last one that billbears has been pulling our legs.. the old illustrating absurdity by being absurd.. showing just how absurd the Paulites are by making absurd comments like how free and representative Germany and Japan were before WWII gave it away.. sounds about as nutty as Paul saying that 9.11 was our fault and tonite’s comment that national security isn’t the government’s job.

[mylife]

So I saw.

[expatpat]

He is correct re Germany. The Weimar Republic was a representative government (a lot of socialist pussies, though).

[billbears]

I just realized after that last one that billbears has been pulling our legs..

And I just realized I'm speaking with those whose history goes back no further than 1941, a common disease found within 'conservatives' these days

Politics of Japan pre 1941

Japan's first constitution - 1881

Again my statement stands. Japan and Germany both had experience with representative forms of government before WWII. Perhaps not our form but a form of representative government.