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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Well done!
1960 as far as I can tell. Kennedy was no worse than Nixon would have been. After that, it wasn't until things got so bad in the late '70s that Reagan was elected to keep us all alive.
What a hateful thing to say!
All of us “enlightened” know the one true fundamental purpose of government is to make life absolutely fair, and everything else follows from that. Attempting to assign a “quid pro quo” logical thought process to property rights and the privilege of voting is the very antithesis of Liberalism.
Have you no shame? <:)
The beginning of the end was when we began to allow non-property owners to vote.
Fallacious. There are many forms of taxation besides property taxes. I would agree with what I think is your major premise - that we have a nation addicted to "other people's money," who are just thrilled to vote for any spending package that someone else will pay for...
At this point the Free-World is between two forces that
can/will kill it/us,,,
1. Globalism/NWO/NAU/What ever you want to call it,,,
(for the good of all)
2. Islam.
(at least they don’t lie)...
Disagree...
Thompson, Hunter and Paul are not RINOs IMHO.
Hunter and Paul are career politicians however, and neither is resonating well with conservative voters.
Thompson was not planning on running at all, until conservatives passed on all others, either as RINOs or un-electables.
Thompson was drafted by conservatives.... He can’t be any more RINO than those who drafted him, myself included.
FDR and his Raw Deal was the turning point. It marks the time during which America would begin to look to its federal government as a solution rather than a problem.
Agree.
I don't have a link, might be able to find it, but I read a while back that there are around 25,000,000 (million) on the government payroll...This includes state, Federal, local and city governments employees, and this did not include the military.
Maybe we DON’T wish to keep our republic, Mr. Franklin!!!
Good article
Thank you!
Oh, and the weakness of character, also.
A democracy.... what all democrats and most/many republicans have always wanted..
The Amnesty of 20+ million brand new democrats registered to vote will insure..
Only a small minority is actually capable of carrying on a conversation about the government
I feel your pain....i have one friend that i can carry a conversation with about the country in general...if i followed football, baseball or basketball, i’d have many more conversations with the rest of the people i know....i am discouraged too.
I’ll take common sense any day of the week.
yep
Pretty scary in how both Gore and Kerry were just one state away from becoming president.
Exactly!
Ain’t it though, and both states are likely to go Democrat in 2008...
Florida and Ohio
I'm afraid the experiment is over. America did not survive and it is unlikely to make a comeback.
Unfortunately, if anybody attempted to make it a requirement that anybody who wished to vote must have some rudimentary knowledge ("Can you name the Vice President of the United States?") the Democrats would throw a hissy fit since a giant piece of their "base" would end up ineligible to vote.
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