"Idiots!"
Posted on 08/09/2007 7:41:37 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Can any representative republic survive a progressively ignorant electorate? Can freedom be sustained in any society hell-bent upon taxing its productive members out of existence, for benefit of its non-productive? Can people unable to successfully govern their own lives be entrusted with the power to govern others?
Not to be unkind, but we need to face facts here. So long as a republic represents the will of the brave, it will remain the home of the free. When it’s run by the productive members of society, it will remain prosperous. When it’s governed by the independent minded, it will not be dependent upon anyone. When run by those with a healthy respect for individual rights, special interests will no longer need special consideration.
But when cowards, thieves and thugs run things, those who believe that some progressive form of socialism is better than individual freedom and personal achievement, freedom is diminished. When those seeking to rob the rich in the name of the poor while stuffing their own pockets and growing their own political power run things, then the republic represents cowardly thieves, not the people.
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Isn’t that one of the provisions of the 14th amendment?
TOTALLY TRUE and a concept we can no longer afford to ignore!
BRAVO!
For running for office too...
AMEN - thank you!
But ... but ... if we got rid of voters with low IQ's, who would hang and impregnate chads?
;-) I agree wholeheartedly with you.
One should not need to own property to have a say in certain government matters. On the other hand, property ownership should entitle one to greater say on matters related to such property. Perhaps having a bicameral legislature along those lines would have been good.
The question is how long can a welfare society survive with open borders?
"Idiots!"
No. So if I were a leftist bent on the destruction of this republic, I would do my utmost to raise generations of increasingly stupid children, subjected to irrelevant classes and deprived of their cultural heritage by a lot of lies, revisionism, and propaganda. Then I would commandeer a prostitute media machine and use it to scare the bejeezus out of them on a daily basis. I would lobby for increased government power, fewer guns, and higher taxes ... all in the name of "protection" of course. And within a few generations, I would have a nation of vapid sheep who would willingly go to the slaughter.
One should demonstrate the personal ability to make sound decisions for themselves, before being asked to make decsions for others....
This goes for both voters and politicians.
Property ownership is just one way of demonstrating that ability.
Fox News:
Romney ran as a moderate [hah] in his failed 1994 bid to unseat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and in his winning gubernatorial campaign eight years later. In a 1994 debate with Kennedy, Romney defended a woman's right to abortion and sought to distance himself from Reagan.
"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush; I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush. My positions don't talk about the things you suggest they talk about; this isn't a political issue," Romney said at the debate.
GRRRRREAT post! OUTSTANDING article by JB Williams!
Until the proletariat voting bloc is a solid voting majority. That’s how long...
The problem would be trusting the people directing things. Average citizens can barely do their taxes, let alone follow something like Malthusian limits.
Accomplished is a relative term. In the county where we live, the government is the largest employer by far. There is a difference between accomplished and producing.
I see you’ve been reading the DNC playbook...
“The beginning of the end was when we began to allow non-property owners to vote.
Just as taxation without representation is wrong. Representation without taxation is wrong.
Unless you bear a portion of the cost of something you shouldn’t get a voice in its creation.”
Nice post.
Thanks!
A most excellent article and directly on point!
For Cal, that’s next year.
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