We need an uncorrupt "representative" government. That's what the US was founded on. What the US Constitution is all about. Representative government.
If you get rid of representative government, or shrink it to the point where it becomes entirely impotent, you will then end up with a society run by monopolistic corporations, ponzi scheme Wallstreet bankers, and privatized police and a corrupt judicial. The US is headed in that direction already, because the US government is corrupt and not representative. Getting rid of the government, or shrinking it to impotency, won't fix the problem.
I don’t think there’s any shame in recognizing the Constitution falls short of adequately protecting human rights. It’s become a quasi-religious article of faith that the Constitution cannot be improved upon. If it began with the Bill of Rights, and made property secondary to individual rights, we’d probably be living in a socialist state!
I think we arrived in the ‘90’s, when the DP became RP lite. Isolated voices like Sanders or RFKjr can be featured as evidence that democracy still lives, but they can easily be marginalized, smeared and erased. We are in oligarchy-hell, and that bears recognizing and repeating...over and over.
Yes. It very much appears as if the 200 year experiment in a constitutional, representative government "Of and For the People" is coming to an end, or as some say, (such as Jimmy Dore) - it has already ended, and Americans just don't know it yet.
And it looks like what will succeed it is some form of corporate Libertarianism masquerading as individual freedom. Or worse, a religious demagogue like DeSantis comes to power. It's not looking very good - the future. Heck, it may even be too late to save the planet from a horrific collapse of most life and the ecosystem - because of human corporate greed. Not only may the experiment with American democracy be over, but the (relatively short) evolutionary experiment with human consciousness.
We need an uncorrupt "representative" government. That's what the US was founded on. What the US Constitution is all about. Representative government.
If you get rid of representative government, or shrink it to the point where it becomes entirely impotent, you will then end up with a society run by monopolistic corporations, ponzi scheme Wallstreet bankers, and privatized police and a corrupt judicial. The US is headed in that direction already, because the US government is corrupt and not representative. Getting rid of the government, or shrinking it to impotency, won't fix the problem.
I don’t think there’s any shame in recognizing the Constitution falls short of adequately protecting human rights. It’s become a quasi-religious article of faith that the Constitution cannot be improved upon. If it began with the Bill of Rights, and made property secondary to individual rights, we’d probably be living in a socialist state!
It was a big step up from King George. But yes, it was far from perfect.
I think we arrived in the ‘90’s, when the DP became RP lite. Isolated voices like Sanders or RFKjr can be featured as evidence that democracy still lives, but they can easily be marginalized, smeared and erased. We are in oligarchy-hell, and that bears recognizing and repeating...over and over.
Yes. It very much appears as if the 200 year experiment in a constitutional, representative government "Of and For the People" is coming to an end, or as some say, (such as Jimmy Dore) - it has already ended, and Americans just don't know it yet.
And it looks like what will succeed it is some form of corporate Libertarianism masquerading as individual freedom. Or worse, a religious demagogue like DeSantis comes to power. It's not looking very good - the future. Heck, it may even be too late to save the planet from a horrific collapse of most life and the ecosystem - because of human corporate greed. Not only may the experiment with American democracy be over, but the (relatively short) evolutionary experiment with human consciousness.