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Democracy is a nightmare; it's two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
Or, really, how Republicans are anti-democracy. By their greed. By their over-riding emphasis on avoiding taxes at all cost.
By Nikole Hannah-Jones
Even when they fail, the guiding values of public institutions, of the public good, are equality and justice. The guiding value of the free market is profit. The for-profit charters DeVos helped expand have not provided an appreciably better education for Detroit’s children, yet they’ve continued to expand because they are profitable — or as Tom Watkins, Michigan’s former education superintendent, said, “In a number of cases, people are making a boatload of money, and the kids aren’t getting educated.”
Democracy works only if those who have the money or the power to opt out of public things choose instead to opt in for the common good. It’s called a social contract, and we’ve seen what happens in cities where the social contract is broken: White residents vote against tax hikes to fund schools where they don’t send their children, parks go untended and libraries shutter because affluent people feel no obligation to help pay for things they don’t need. “The existence of public things — to meet each other, to fight about, to pay for together, to enjoy, to complain about — this is absolutely indispensable to democratic life,” Honig says.
What Republican is anti-tax? Even the Founding Fathers supported taxation. It's just that they wanted it to be accountable to the people, not spent here, there, wasted on this bureaucrat's pockets, that bureaucrat's pockets, etc.
If we are paying money into Social Security, and it's our own money going into it, why is the program going broke? Could someone explain that for me?
Besides, you don't want a democracy. If we were a democracy, the politicians could loot the rest of the country to pay for the population of San Diego, Detroit, Chicago, New York City, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, etc so that they, as the majority of voters, would always support them. That's why our Founders were so wise to:
1.) Have Congressmen, though by population, elected locally.
2.) Have the Senate picked by the state legislature.
3.) Have the President picked by the electoral college.
4.) Have the federal government small and the local government the strongest.
As for DeVos, I agree she's a snake and needs to go.
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
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"Democracy is a system of majority rule in which each citizen has one vote either in deciding the policies of the government or in electing the rulers, who will in turn decide policy. It is a system replete with inner contradictions."
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