I've found, in my experience, that there is a real effort being made not only to preserve power, but to prevent people from making their own choices, and the far-right backers of the Republican party are leading the way. That's the scary thing. Well, there are many scary things...and that's just one of them.
I dunno. I don't really have the energy for a political argument right now, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
But isn't that, in a way, an easy out? Well, there are offenders on all sides -- duh. If we were going to play, "I hate everyone and am a small-l libertarian because all government is a corrupt use of power" I could say, "well, I'm offended by those people who vote against all of their principles by voting for the Republican party, who aren't even fiscally conservative. Especially because they act like they are much, much better than me. Also because they fundamentally misunderstand that the point of democracy is government FOR THE PEOPLE. We make the damn thing up, and possibly it would suck less if we stopped acting like choads and did some of the minor work we need to do to make it good."
You know? Offenders have always existed, and will always exist, so we build better systems (you know, like those checks and balances of the Constitution that do need updating, I think, but were a pretty good system) to balance our weaknesses. Otherwise, we're just offenders ourselves, justifying our apathy.
All too true. Sadly, and I know this goes for me as well, people just get too caught up in their sphere of people and their immediate needs to put much more than a very limited burst of energy into even caring about the general public. Until you get the public beyond the point where their basic needs for survival and safety are met, they simply can't and won't put any energy into making a difference for society as a whole. It's an ugly catch-22, too, since society as a whole is in no position to help meet those basic needs until it is changed. There is a power structure in place, but it has grown to the point where it is self-involved and simply too large to react in any meaningful way (and corrupt to the point that key persons are able to overact before they can be properly checked by the whole
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LOL :-) I'd probably hate the paperwork. Tigra claims to have annexed this Universe, but she is given to grandiosity. :-)
Really though, the situation I like best is our current one in Kanaduh. A minority government. They can't do too much but run the country, anything too outrageous and they get booted, often for another minority. The parties are careful to keep their idiots in line since even a small scandal can topple a government or devastate an opposition party (since we don't have fixed-date elections).
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I dunno. I don't really have the energy for a political argument right now, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
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You know? Offenders have always existed, and will always exist, so we build better systems (you know, like those checks and balances of the Constitution that do need updating, I think, but were a pretty good system) to balance our weaknesses. Otherwise, we're just offenders ourselves, justifying our apathy.
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You totally have my vote. Finally, a candidate I can believe in!
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Really though, the situation I like best is our current one in Kanaduh. A minority government. They can't do too much but run the country, anything too outrageous and they get booted, often for another minority. The parties are careful to keep their idiots in line since even a small scandal can topple a government or devastate an opposition party (since we don't have fixed-date elections).
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