Republicans just might Win and give you what you ask for!!!

[squarian]

Originally Posted by sickofnyc

I am convinced that there are people in the USA that prefer an Oligarchy. There is no other explanation.

Well, of course. Haven't you noticed in the last twenty years how often these Buckley-Rand libertarian extremists insist that the U.S. was meant to be a "Constitutional Republic" (or "Representative Republic", or similar formulae) and not a "direct democracy". What do you suppose they're referring to?

[sickofnyc]

Originally Posted by squarian

Well, of course. Haven't you noticed in the last twenty years how often these Buckley-Rand libertarian extremists insist that the U.S. was meant to be a "Constitutional Republic" (or "Representative Republic", or similar formulae) and not a "direct democracy". What do you suppose they're referring to?

Constitutional Republic Or Fascist Oligarchy
July 2011

This may come as a surprise to most people but not to anyone who is politically astute, has been paying attention to the political conversion of our constitutional republic into a privatized, corporate [fascist] one since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, or, like myself, is a prophet.

We are no longer a democratic, constitutional republic based upon egalitarian principles of democracy [as expressed in the preamble to our US Constitution] that provide constitutional protections to the people.

The Democratic Party is no longer [has not been for some considerable time] the party of FDR. It has been corrupted into the GOP [Greed Overwhelming Principle] and has replaced that party in America as the conservative expression of political policy in our democracy.

The former GOP has morphed into the GOF [Greedy Oligarchic Fascists] party and it no longer cares about constitutional government or individual citizen rights and exclusively concerns itself with the creation of a privatized corporate [fascist] form of governance in which the profit motive is the ultimate manifestation of “success” that supersedes every other consideration.

The party is over, folks. The Great Experiment in democracy is over, and it failed. The Reagan Revolution is complete. The non-violent [although not bloodless] coup d etat is finished. There are no longer any principled politicians in a position of power to protect the American people as our elected representatives from the greed of the wealthy elite.

The Great Depression II is upon us with real unemployment at 16% of the American workforce, and heading upward and onward until we are fully engulfed in a fight not for our constitutional republic but for our mere survival in a corporately owned and operated world in which the profit motive is the sole predicate upon which government is based.

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[t206]

Originally Posted by squarian

Well, of course. Haven't you noticed in the last twenty years how often these Buckley-Rand libertarian extremists insist that the U.S. was meant to be a "Constitutional Republic" (or "Representative Republic", or similar formulae) and not a "direct democracy". What do you suppose they're referring to?

So you would prefer a "direct democracy" where three wolves and one sheep vote on whats for dinner?

Direct democracy is nothing more than mob rule, and quite frankly with the horrible failure of our educational system we would be in serious trouble if we were truly a direct democracy.