Exactly. The problem is that the people who should never, ever have power and control over others are the very people in power: those that seek power and control over others. It's an inherently fatal systemic flaw as far as I can tell.
Exactly. The problem is that the people who should never, ever have power and control over others are the very people in power: those that seek power and control over others. It's an inherently fatal systemic flaw as far as I can tell.
"It's an inherently fatal systemic flaw as far as I can tell. "
Yes indeed, this is precisely correct! Your entire comment is bang-on correct, but I've only quoted your last sentence.
There's no repair possible for what is irreparable. Representational "democracy" has been the preferred form of government (preferred by the psychopathic banker-owners who install this kind of government everywhere) because it is John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man writ large.
Representational "democracy" in a nutshell is this: it is far more difficult and inefficient defrauding all the people by dealing with them individually, and far more expensive bribing them all, whereas bribing, blackmailing, or bulldozing only a very few "key" individuals, individuals who are moreover the kind that seek power and control over others that you describe and whom are readily exploitable - that is, the kind that become politicians - is easy and relatively far cheaper.
Here, then, is the "democracy" the western world acclaims and exalts as its lustrous legacy and its singular genius that elevates it above the rest of civilization.
They sell it pretty good and The Framers did, too, but it was always set up to primarily benefit only a few, imo. It's arguably been totally compromised right from the start.
I strongly agree. However, I'm perhaps too cynical in that I tend not to view it as being compromised from the start so much as it was always intended and composed as a degenerate and crooked thing. At the same time, I can't help feeling that what the Founding Fathers envisaged with such high-mindedness, articulated with such sublime prose, and established with such high morals and benevolence, was indeed remarkable and irreproachably wholesome. But what their vision and their Constitution enshrined is not in any way, shape, form, or spirit the government that eventuated, alas.
Exactly. The problem is that the people who should never, ever have power and control over others are the very people in power: those that seek power and control over others. It's an inherently fatal systemic flaw as far as I can tell.
"It's an inherently fatal systemic flaw as far as I can tell. "
Yes indeed, this is precisely correct! Your entire comment is bang-on correct, but I've only quoted your last sentence.
There's no repair possible for what is irreparable. Representational "democracy" has been the preferred form of government (preferred by the psychopathic banker-owners who install this kind of government everywhere) because it is John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man writ large.
Representational "democracy" in a nutshell is this: it is far more difficult and inefficient defrauding all the people by dealing with them individually, and far more expensive bribing them all, whereas bribing, blackmailing, or bulldozing only a very few "key" individuals, individuals who are moreover the kind that seek power and control over others that you describe and whom are readily exploitable - that is, the kind that become politicians - is easy and relatively far cheaper.
Here, then, is the "democracy" the western world acclaims and exalts as its lustrous legacy and its singular genius that elevates it above the rest of civilization.
They sell it pretty good and The Framers did, too, but it was always set up to primarily benefit only a few, imo. It's arguably been totally compromised right from the start.
I strongly agree. However, I'm perhaps too cynical in that I tend not to view it as being compromised from the start so much as it was always intended and composed as a degenerate and crooked thing. At the same time, I can't help feeling that what the Founding Fathers envisaged with such high-mindedness, articulated with such sublime prose, and established with such high morals and benevolence, was indeed remarkable and irreproachably wholesome. But what their vision and their Constitution enshrined is not in any way, shape, form, or spirit the government that eventuated, alas.