These elections shouldn’t be so important, IMHO. But because of the change from civil society to political society we are in a fight for our very lives.
We have lost the Republic. The Democracy or ‘Mobocracy’ is the doom we face. The majority of voters following their whims inflamed by political rhetoric and promises of largess are looting our treasury and undermining this nation.
Regean said we could loose our freedoms (liberty) in a generation. Sounds like what’s happening now.
I should make that my new tagline.
One of the reasons we've had to much difficulty in Iraq is that Saddam and his Baath (Arab Communist) Party destroyed Arab civil society as their first act in power. We needed to establish some root of civil society in Iraq, and there was no root for us to water outside of the mosques.
We've lost our own civil society because people have been trained since 1933 to look to government for solutions to their every problem.