[quote]666Rich wrote:
I would say if anything, we have the chance to become worse than Europe with our two party entrenched idealogue system. The extremes prevail with no sense of balance. Post Citizens United, there is greater ability and incentive for interest groups, etc to lobby politicians. Given the political cycles for re-election, it becomes a game of influence and nepotism to a greater degree than ever before. This will perpetually dictate that entitlements and subsidies to Favorited groups will distort markets and ruin the nations finances through malinvestment.
In order to stop this, the political structure must first be renovated. [/quote]
Exactly! Start by eliminating all income taxes. Then eliminate all regulations on business except those against where someone’s property rights are violated.
That’d be a good place to start.
Never happen, of course. About 70% of humanity is, by nature, parasitical on the other 30%; that’s why democracy/republics were invented, so the parasites can use government to drain the minority.
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Not really, the idea of a constitutional republic with a very indirect democratic element was invented to prevent exactly that.
Unfortunately, democracy grows like a cancer, however small an element it might have been in the beginning.
[quote]666Rich wrote:
I would say if anything, we have the chance to become worse than Europe with our two party entrenched idealogue system. The extremes prevail with no sense of balance. Post Citizens United, there is greater ability and incentive for interest groups, etc to lobby politicians. Given the political cycles for re-election, it becomes a game of influence and nepotism to a greater degree than ever before. This will perpetually dictate that entitlements and subsidies to Favorited groups will distort markets and ruin the nations finances through malinvestment.
In order to stop this, the political structure must first be renovated. [/quote]
Exactly! Start by eliminating all income taxes. Then eliminate all regulations on business except those against where someone’s property rights are violated.
That’d be a good place to start.
Never happen, of course. About 70% of humanity is, by nature, parasitical on the other 30%; that’s why democracy/republics were invented, so the parasites can use government to drain the minority.
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Not really, the idea of a constitutional republic with a very indirect democratic element was invented to prevent exactly that.
Unfortunately, democracy grows like a cancer, however small an element it might have been in the beginning. [/quote]
Humans will always invent ways to rob one another. Since the vast majority can’t compete in terms of intelligence, they compete in terms of brutality. Of course, their phony religious doctrines tell them to dress it up ‘nicely’, call it ‘helping the poor’ or some other crock. Thus they choose the form of organised brutality (government) that let’s them sleep at night. They think by voting to rob and plunder, to destroy, then its okay because most of the herd went along.