Posted on 10/26/2008 3:10:32 PM PDT by Corazon
“This is a real nut-cake piece.”
I wish you were right.
I am in total agreement with your brother in that the electorate is not well enough informed.
Re #2: The electorate's ignorance is based partially upon the fact that most young people simply do not acquire enough wisdom or experience by the age of 18 to make a decision in their own best interests, let alone one that would be beneficial to the nation. This used to be solved by restricting the right to vote to citizens who had attained the age of 21.
RE #1: Your brothers statement in the first instance, I believe solving the informed electorate problem would result in a different statement from him.
My concern is that to many will make a foolish decision which will result in a bloody conflict between those loyal to the principles of the constitution with those who seek to enslave them.
Semper Fi
An Old Man
I can find at least three things wrong with this passage.
"Democracies always fail because once people learn that they can vote themselves money, then that's it." Once they figure that out, it's over. Well, here's an actual quote, and it is from a science fiction writer named Robert Heinlein, and it is from a book called, To Sail Beyond the Sunset: "The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. "A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. ... [O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so..." They'll vote themselves bread and circuses every time "until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader [such as] the barbarians enter Rome."
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the third party voters, the too proud conservative and, of course, the 0bama voters and the DNC for making the above quote possible. If it comes to pass, the blood will be on your hands. You had a chance to stop it, but instead, you chose to make it happen.
Wolverines!
You were saying — “I am in total agreement with your brother in that the electorate is not well enough informed.”
And a well-informed and evil electorate is probably worse...
sounds like “judgment time”...
In this case, yes. The people richly deserve a wake up call. Furthermore, I happen to be a partisan that believes the contract was contigent upon both party agreement. The question to me is whether we can maintain coherence in a dissolution of the contract, or will we passively go towards rendering it meaningless.
I heard a quote today that for me completely explains the liberal-federal governmental structure: "When you are dealing with a liar that holds the bigger gun, a written document is completely useless." He was, of course, speaking of our constitution. Fregards
Just bumping up for discussion. Two years later...with a republic that is alive, awake, and in the process of correcting a horrendous mistake.
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