1) Oops. Yup, it's a protected entry. Apparently, Noah is still a bit sheepish in his convictions, unlike me.
2) <voice="Don Adams">Would you believe it's a typo?</voice>
3) No, the system is off the rails. There is no right to violate the inalienable rights of others via a majority vote, and that's precisely what politics in the U.S. Federal Government has become. Even assuming that the Constitution lays down some sort of social contract (debatable) that document is a dead letter to the politicians in Washington. The government it founded is gone. When that happened or when the patient expired is a matter for forensic historians or other interested kibbitzers but it changes nothing today. The organization whose representatives and servants style themselves "The United States Government" is a fraud which only superficially resembles the organization chartered by the U.S. Constitution. If you believe any politician's oath to defend and uphold it one or both of you is naive. U.S. politics is nothing but expedient tyranny. Voting will not change that. The system needs to be scrapped, before it implodes or something else nasty happens. It cannot be reformed by the same process that allowed the Republic to decay into empire in the first place. Attempts at reform are fighting what can be thought of as a kind of socio-political entropy. There is a phenomenon analogous to the second law of thermodynamics at work here. You cannot make it go backward, just as you cannot make water flow uphill. The system needs to be taken down before it invites conquest or it collapses. Right now there is not enough wisdom circulating in the public to accomplish that end, so I devote my meager efforts to education, not political maneuvering.
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Re: Absolutely not.
Date: 2006-11-08 01:20 am (UTC)2) <voice="Don Adams">Would you believe it's a typo?</voice>
3) No, the system is off the rails. There is no right to violate the inalienable rights of others via a majority vote, and that's precisely what politics in the U.S. Federal Government has become. Even assuming that the Constitution lays down some sort of social contract (debatable) that document is a dead letter to the politicians in Washington. The government it founded is gone. When that happened or when the patient expired is a matter for forensic historians or other interested kibbitzers but it changes nothing today. The organization whose representatives and servants style themselves "The United States Government" is a fraud which only superficially resembles the organization chartered by the U.S. Constitution. If you believe any politician's oath to defend and uphold it one or both of you is naive. U.S. politics is nothing but expedient tyranny. Voting will not change that. The system needs to be scrapped, before it implodes or something else nasty happens. It cannot be reformed by the same process that allowed the Republic to decay into empire in the first place. Attempts at reform are fighting what can be thought of as a kind of socio-political entropy. There is a phenomenon analogous to the second law of thermodynamics at work here. You cannot make it go backward, just as you cannot make water flow uphill. The system needs to be taken down before it invites conquest or it collapses. Right now there is not enough wisdom circulating in the public to accomplish that end, so I devote my meager efforts to education, not political maneuvering.