No. We know fraud when we see it happening with our own lying eyes. Our founding fathers distrusted our institutions.
Exactly. The DNC now runs everything. I don’t trust any of them.
Who really believes that?
I truly have lost faith in almost all of our major institutions.
We the people distrust political types of people, period.
Simmering?
Great op-ed. Makes me get a bit teary-eyed.
If power is increasingly centralized in one place and in one office - then of course, the political stakes and incentive to grab power become extremely high.
History has shown us the brutality, extremism and political corruption that takes place when emperors compete for power.
And of course, we have seen a growth in centralized/Federal power in the USA since the start of the Progressive era, but which has gone parabolic since the late 1960s.
Why would the USA avoid this same fate as other empires?
Instead they quietly retire with a nice Govt pension...at taxpayers expense!.....i.e. Lois Learner
it doesn't work that way in the non govt. business world...
Simmering? Mine has been on high-boil since Comey’s “intent” presser about Hillary. I don’t recognize our country anymore.
I worked for many years in third world nations of immense corruption and wealth. The voting system were simply an amusing farce. That farce today now exists in my nation. What follows this great farce is very bad in the extreme. It is called tyranny.
Even more oddly I have worked in a couple of nations that were under rule by kings or Sultans with absolute power. A perfect example was Oman. Sultan Qaboos had absolute power. He loved his nation and did all he could to bring a very backward nation into the real world. He succeeded. He was an absolute ruler. He was loved by his nation.
Odd story about his palace circa 1978. I went down there to take pictures and just walk about outside. The palace guards most politely indicated not to take pictures and just move away. His security really sucked. Oddly he did not need it. Colonel Roberts ex British Intelligence but really still the same took care of all of that.
Perhaps a book will be written about Colonel Roberts one day. It would be most interesting. His name on a piece of paper was like God.
Some friends of mine from the UK wanted to visit me in Oman. The whole process was a nightmare as there was internal instability in Oman at the time. There was a war in the South of Oman. Visas were looked at closely and often denied. My friends could not come.
I sat outside of Colonel Roberts office for a few hours. The staff denied me access. When he came out I politely cordoned him and explained what was happening. I had the paper in hand to be signed. He immediately signed it most graciously. He had power but it was used properly.