As John has said before, democracy is nothing more than mob rule. Our
country is not a democracy but rather a representative form of
government. That is, we elect people to do our bidding. The trouble
is greed gets in the way. So our representatives stop representing
ourselves and start representing those with the most money. This is
where capitalism comes into play. For some reason the majority of
people in this country love this system. They love the American way
which is like a giant game of Monopoly. A few get people all the
money and of course all the power. The people with all the power
elect those who in turn see to it that those in power, stay in power.
A much more humane system of governance would be a form of socialism.
Which is what most people in the world use as a form of government.
This country is afraid of socialism. They think socialism is the same
as communism. Communism is not the bugaboo that people seem think it
is. The trouble with Communism is, it doesn't work. But it is a great
idea. Everyone does their share of the work and reaps their share of
the profits. But of course, there is always one or two slackers, and
then three or four slackers, and so on and so on until you have a few
people doing most of the work with the resulting lack of profits,
produce, etc.. Unfortunately, I guess that's common nature.
This is where socialism came in. People in socialist countries work
far fewer hours than they do in strictly capitalistic countries.
Because they don't work as hard they generally are much happier. The
government provides them with all the necessities of life. Such as;
education, medical care, a good infrastructure, police force, fire
department, etc. Of course, they are heavily taxed. But it does not
seem to bother them as all their basic needs are provided for. How
many people do you know that waste their excess money? I have
neighbors that don't have a pot to piss in yet they have four cars in
their driveway. I have neighbors that fight to see who can get the
biggest pool or most expensive car or - well you get the point.
Okay I'm done ranting.
Dan
