This is what happens, I think, on both sides of the aisle. Good people never make it to the top, or if they do, they are promptly corrupted by the power.
There are powerful and decidedly not partisan forces driving our politics today that are totally bankrupt, and it's not merely at the corporate level, but all over, including government. The Republic as such is barely on life support, and nothing short of a popular uprising will prevent its imminent demise. I'm not holding my breath for that. If I had to pinpoint what did us in, it was a threefold ignoring of our Founders' warnings: * Never to let majority faction reign in any branch of government * Never to let the interests of foreign powers gain access to our political system * Never to let the bankers centralize and take over the currency or fiscal policy The extra-constitutional "two-party" system is clearly designed to ensure that at any one point in time a majority faction controls any one branch, if not more than one branch. With free trade we casually discarded the second warning, intertwining our economic interests with the political interests of foreign governments (China, for example, but by no means only China), and with the Fed (a private company!) -- and now the handing over of our entire regulatory system to the Fed -- we have completely rebuked the third, and ushered in the tyrannical forces our Founders fought to render powerless through our Constitution. Finally there was a moral component to our Constitution. I think it was Ben Franklin who said that the system they established was for a moral people, and wholly unsuited to any other kind. Tax and marital cheats on both sides of the isle show how shallow our modern morality is, and this is of course why the masses are swooning for a total fraud like Obama, after swooning for his doppelganger, Bush. There are other factors, of course, but whoever catalogs the decline and fall of the American Republic will do well to start from these "first principles" observations. - Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Adam Buckland > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:17 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: [OT] - Here they go again.... > > South Carolina governor Mark Sanford makes tearful apology over > affair... > > > Gov Sanford, a staunchly conservative southern governor, was widely > considered a plausible candidate for the 2012 race. His admission will > prove a further setback for the Republican party after losing so > heavily > to Mr Obama last November. > > > F*ck up the economy, F*ck up US standing in the world then F*ck an > Argentinian.... Why can't Conservatives keep their dicks in their own > wives and limit themselves to 2 out of 3... > > > </flame> > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
