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=> the great experiment is failing...

the great experiment is failing...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, October 29 2015, 23:38:53 (UTC)
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Yes, yes, there has ALWAYS been violence and there has always been dishonesty and there have always been lies and poverty and injustice and violence and blah blah blah....no one disputes that. But there wasn't always a democratic form of government...and, of course, with democracy came Fascism as the best way to steer the mass of people to vote the interests of their rulers rather than their own...but at least the tools to better our collective lives were given to us...for the first time in human history.

For the first time in a long time, and even more so than in ancient Greece or anywhere else...the people could determine the direction of their affairs, of their government. This is a big deal....doesn't mean it's panned out the way expected, but it was a Great Experiment.

For instance....we lost a ton of jobs overseas, taken there by greedy businessmen who wanted lower wages, if not slavery, no regulations so they wouldn't have to pay to clean up the mess they are making of our planet, or to avoid making it more of a mess...and the results for the mass of Americans has been disastrous.

It would be easy to change all of it...laws which allowed this could be struck down...new laws making it prohibitively expensive to ship jobs overseas could be enacted and taxes could be put to the use they were intended; to make life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and health a reality..inasmuch as these things can ever be effected by human design....we could do it....that was the whole point of the Constitution.


You have to wonder if there had been this sort of democracy in France before the 18th century, there ever would have been a Revolution in 1789. If people could have voted the French aristocracy out of power, or curtailed their power, or shifted it to them, or even modified their behavior in any way, would there have been the need to chop their heads off?

That was the whole point to our form of government....give the people the peaceful means to effect change, change that was supposed to benefit THEM, and there would be no need to resort to violent revolution when things went too far.

It was a marvelous experiment which depended for success on the quality of the People...of their ability to understand what is truly in their best interests from what is in the best interests of the wealthy few, disguised as "morality" or hidden behind religion and gods and patriotism etc.

And all of it, and the quality of the people too, depended on education...this is known about democracy; there must be good and effective education because the people will decide issues and they must not only be informed, and truly informed, but they must know how to think critically...and education has been under attack for decades now...and has be re-defined as job-training, even when there are no jobs...or less and less.

The experiment is failing badly...there isn't even really the funds to run it...just massive borrowing which the kids must pay for.



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