THE BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

[Mike E 11,742]

6 hours ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

From the description "This is no ordinary textbook on American Government. DEMOCRACY FOR THE FEW is a provocative interpretation of American Government that you have likely not been exposed to in elementary school, high school, or other college courses, and certainly not in the mass media. This textbook shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, but how popular forces have fought back and occasionally made gains in spite of the system. By focusing on the relationship between economic power and political power, discussing actual government practices and policies, conspiracies, propaganda, fraud, secrecy and other ploys of government and politics, this book stands apart in its analysis of how US Government works."  

I have no argument with any of those concepts and I am sure I would agree with a lot the author has to say.

Extreme left and extreme right agree.  USA is not a democracy. 
 

Extreme left: “majority wants a Democrat president, ban guns, stop pumping oil and a minority is enough to stop us”

 

Extreme right: “yes”
 

6 hours ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

 

  

 

 

 

Canada and the US are representative democracies and liberal democracies.

 

Except one representative has more power than the other.  It would be like me hiring a lawyer to sue someone in a Montana and because we are California based my lawyer has 100 times fewer of his objections in trial entertainer versus the defense.  
 

6 hours ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am not defending the idea of the Electoral College, or Montana having a stronger voice per capita than New York, but it is still a democracy.

more like an elected aristocracy, where some aristocrats are more equal than the other.  
 

6 hours ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

 

 

Okay, I believe that you believe that the US is not a democracy. I dont know of any Supreme Court ruling on the definition of democracy per se.  
 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
 

“The right to vote freely for the candidate of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government.”

It could not be any clearer.  
 

btw I disagree with the decision. Before scotus interfered, LA count had one state Senator and Alipine county with 400 people had one state Senator. This decision put California on the path to ruin.  
 

 

6 hours ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

 

 

 

 

And yet,  reactionary folks tell me I am too liberal, whatever that means.

probably too left wing. 
 

I’m a reactionary.  I reacted when I learned that the reason my grand father immigrated to Canada was that the Bolsheviks slaughtered his parents and siblings and took their home.  
 

I react every time I think about it.  
 

6 hours ago, Crtcl Rice Theory said:

 

The article makes some key points how authoritarian threat in the 21st century is structured differently that the challenges in the 20th century.  That is my reason for posting the article.   If we are struggling to recognize authoritarian actions and governments at this point, it might be underscoring the authors point.

most authoritarianism comes from left wing policy. It started in 1917 and it continues in the Democrat congress and White House.