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The 3 favs for the next US president is crazy. How can 2 families have so much power?
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one of the reasons the Founders of the US wanted ordinary people in Congress/Senate and Presidency was to avoid exactly this, the creation of the equivalent of royal families.
The way they designed the system, the job in the US govt as a congressman etc was only ever to be temporary and actually quite poorly paid. so the idea is you did it as a kind of a service to your country for a term and then went back to your real life and job. also the government was only supposed to meet for a limited number of days per year (like texas does for example) so they also knew that if the elected members were living continually in one place (e.g. Washington DC) they would get a very weird view of what the people who elected them wanted. it was one of the reasons the senate was originally populated with elected officials from each state, that was to ensure the individual states always had a veto that would ensure the a power elite in Washington could be stalled. that changed with an amendment that allowed them to be elected by the population which IMHO was a serious mistake thereby allowing parties to control both houses. so a common misunderstanding is the US is a democracy, it most emphatically is not (or rather wasnt meant to be), its a republic..there is a big difference. To quote Jefferson : "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."
The founders also knew that power would always centralise, no matter what they did so the idea was to delay that as long as possible, giving the US people time to fix it. so the design was to have the branches of government with enough power to do something but not enough to steam roller everyone else and to have them all fighting each other for power.
the final component is the gun laws, now (and with the shooting yesterday) much maligned. the gun law, aka the 2nd amendment, was the final component to as quoted again by Jefferson :'When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny'. the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting or any other BS you hear, it is a check on power. that of course is lost in the arguments about shootings but i digress. also something quite interesting is the founders were very concerned about centalisation for this reason: Financiers, bankers and industrialists make cities the 'cesspools of corruption', and should be avoided.
What has happened in the US is the creation (and to be honest here in Ireland as well) is entire families who know nothing else but being in government. they are a ruling class, the exact opposite of what the founders wanted, in fact this was one of their issues with the royals in England.
look at the clinton daughter (and soon the obama daughters), she is already being honed for power,and at some point when the partying stops so will the bush daughters. the kennedys would have been except for their penchant for drowning women and crashing planes so they have kind of imploded. To be honest it is not healthy anywhere. look at Ireland, or even worse the EU: its a power elite. what is truly scary is the power of the US now and that in the hands of maybe 100 to 200 families...those families control a military the likes that has never been seen on the face of the planet before and something the EU is also trying to centralise also.
i also find it interesting that the villification of guns is also aligned with the villification of the founders. Washington had wooden teeth, they were slave owners (some were),they were free masons (some were) we have ipads now what could a group of stuffy powered hair white guys know, etc etc. the US constitution is outdated, the abuse of the word 'rights'. the Bill of rights simply states you have the right to LIFE, LIBERTY and PURSUIT of happiness. no where there does it say you have a right to happiness, you have the right to PURSUE it. so if you wanted to sit on your ass and take drugs, go ahead..just dont expect the other citizens to pay for it.
honestly a great read is the federalist papers and what they were thinking. unfortunately the change was best surmised by the last Bush presidency (and as it happens also supported by President Obama) and his comment on the constitution: its just a piece of paper.
unfortunately there is a lot of creepy stuff out there people, anyway time to take my ritilin, i will be right back with a whole section on the illumaniti and the bilderbergers...
no wait, im relaxed now...let me be worried about the kardashians, .....thats terrible isnt it
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Fallschirmjager wrote: »one of the reasons the Founders of the US wanted ordinary people in Congress/Senate and Presidency was to avoid exactly this, the creation of the equivalent of royal families.
The way they designed the system, the job in the US govt as a congressman etc was only ever to be temporary and actually quite poorly paid. so the idea is you did it as a kind of a service to your country for a term and then went back to your real life and job. also the government was only supposed to meet for a limited number of days per year (like texas does for example) so they also knew that if the elected members were living continually in one place (e.g. Washington DC) they would get a very weird view of what the people who elected them wanted. it was one of the reasons the senate was originally populated with elected officials from each state, that was to ensure the individual states always had a veto that would ensure the a power elite in Washington could be stalled. that changed with an amendment that allowed them to be elected by the population which IMHO was a serious mistake thereby allowing parties to control both houses. so a common misunderstanding is the US is a democracy, it most emphatically is not (or rather wasnt meant to be), its a republic..there is a big difference. To quote Jefferson : "Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%."
The founders also knew that power would always centralise, no matter what they did so the idea was to delay that as long as possible, giving the US people time to fix it. so the design was to have the branches of government with enough power to do something but not enough to steam roller everyone else and to have them all fighting each other for power.
the final component is the gun laws, now (and with the shooting yesterday) much maligned. the gun law, aka the 2nd amendment, was the final component to as quoted again by Jefferson :'When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny'. the 2nd amendment has nothing to do with hunting or any other BS you hear, it is a check on power. that of course is lost in the arguments about shootings but i digress. also something quite interesting is the founders were very concerned about centalisation for this reason: Financiers, bankers and industrialists make cities the 'cesspools of corruption', and should be avoided.
What has happened in the US is the creation (and to be honest here in Ireland as well) is entire families who know nothing else but being in government. they are a ruling class, the exact opposite of what the founders wanted, in fact this was one of their issues with the royals in England.
look at the clinton daughter (and soon the obama daughters), she is already being honed for power,and at some point when the partying stops so will the bush daughters. the kennedys would have been except for their penchant for drowning women and crashing planes so they have kind of imploded. To be honest it is not healthy anywhere. look at Ireland, or even worse the EU: its a power elite. what is truly scary is the power of the US now and that in the hands of maybe 100 to 200 families...those families control a military the likes that has never been seen on the face of the planet before and something the EU is also trying to centralise also.
i also find it interesting that the villification of guns is also aligned with the villification of the founders. Washington had wooden teeth, they were slave owners (some were),they were free masons (some were) we have ipads now what could a group of stuffy powered hair white guys know, etc etc. the US constitution is outdated, the abuse of the word 'rights'. the Bill of rights simply states you have the right to LIFE, LIBERTY and PURSUIT of happiness. no where there does it say you have a right to happiness, you have the right to PURSUE it. so if you wanted to sit on your ass and take drugs, go ahead..just dont expect the other citizens to pay for it.
honestly a great read is the federalist papers and what they were thinking. unfortunately the change was best surmised by the last Bush presidency (and as it happens also supported by President Obama) and his comment on the constitution: its just a piece of paper.
unfortunately there is a lot of creepy stuff out there people, anyway time to take my ritilin, i will be right back with a whole section on the illumaniti and the bilderbergers...
no wait, im relaxed now...let me be worried about the kardashians, .....thats terrible isnt it
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