Well, wait for the next guy
This was bandied about for George Bush and not it seems even more fitting. But, I have a feeling, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
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January 30th, 2015 at 1:40 pm
(Obligatory “We don’t live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic; a democracy is one step away from mob rule” pedantic statement.)
But other than that, yeah Mencken was pretty much spot on.
January 30th, 2015 at 6:03 pm
That explains very well why our wise and prescient founders despised and disdained the idea of a democracy. I think it was Thomas Paine, who said “a democracy was the most vile form of government”.
And yet we devolved to the point where a supposed “conservative” President lead us to go to war, Congressionally undeclared of course, against Iraq, a nation that did not and could not attack us, to establish democracy. But then when he ran against Al Gore, George W. Bush campaigned for a “more humble foreign policy” a non-interventionist one, while leftist Al Gore, as one would expect, proposed an unconstitutional foreign policy of “regime change” in Iraq.
January 30th, 2015 at 6:17 pm
Democracy is the atmosphere in which demagogues operate.
“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.”– James Madison
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.”–Fisher Ames, Author of the House Language for the First Amendment
January 31st, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Wise and prescient words. But our reality is this democracy is being driven by politicians’ willingness to buy votes and sell souls (your money and their souls) and the future be damned. Adams was wrong though; this ain’t suicide which ideally quick and painless, it’s murder by the most sadistic and masochistic methods imaginable.
Oh, and “wait for the next guy”? Try gal, or something in between…they don’t call her Hellary for nothing. The pain has only just begun.
February 1st, 2015 at 1:52 am
When the Founders established the Republic 1) shiftless ne’er-do-wells did not vote, 2) women did not vote and 3) most people did not live long enough to get old. The electorate was relatively young, relatively industrious, men, who could go out and build a country instead of voting for free birth control, social security and welfare beans for themselves.
The other thing the Founders likely did not envision was the evil of a President living on in his judicial appointees long after he’d served his four or eight years. FDR’s Progressives until the ’70s; Eisenhower’s liberals until the ’90s examples for our times.
As for the Republic, it ceased to exist on April 12, 1861. A republic that needs a Civil War of the enormity we had to keep it together is not a republic, unless you define “republic” the way the Soviet Union did. I know what the Constitution says we’re supposed to have but we ain’t got that. I don’t know what we have. Rule by unelected judges, professional politicians, and big money donors is the result though.