Tired of fooling yourselves? (656 hits)
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Submitted by SAECULUM.AUREUM (View user info) at 2004-11-04 11:49:50 EST
President Woodrow Wilson (in The New Freedom, 1913) wrote of the western establishment:
``Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.''
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The term ``hierarchy'' etymologically means ``sacred rule'', but has come to denote any pyramid-like acyclic network arrangement. The root is instructive, however: theistic religions are power structures in which adherents pledge obedience to an illusory god or gods, but (inevitably) obey the commandments of men who duck accountability by dint of their god ruse. For comparison, the ruse by which the modern establishment ducks accountability is the committee, and the members of these committees believe they wield god-like powers to command humanity and define right and wrong. A key commonality is a pathological inability to recognize that the laws of nature are constant.
Bush = Kerry
Elections are inutile.
It is of my opinion that the only means for which to change this, is to completely re-model the entire election process. Possible avenues of change could include consecutive preference ballots, which is a methodology of setting up a ballot in order of first choice, second choice, third and so forth. The ballots would then be tallied for a majority, and with no majority in the first preference, would follow a system accumulating a majority while eliminating minorities until a candidate is chosen.
A great way to allow for third/fourth/etc candidates. This is also known as instant runoff voting.
http://www.fairvote.org/irv/
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Submitted by IamNotTheWorldTradeCenter (user info) at 2004-11-04 17:06:36 EST (#)
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Lord knows if anyone ever needed anything in the history of the universe, America needs some major election/campaign reoform. Too bad the only people with the power to do that benefit so much from the current system that reforms with any kind of teeth will never become law. It's like communism, great concept if it weren't for the fact that political leaders are all bloodthirsty liars.
+2 for rational analysis and not thinking that the queers are our biggest threat.
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2004-11-04 16:26:43 EST (#)
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Why did everyone ignore this post last time? If you do it again and make it better i'll put it on most heated.
Submitted by SAECULUM.AUREUM (user info) at 2004-11-04 13:48:37 EST (#)
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Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:42:01 (#)
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Scary Guy is right.
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Maybe so ... but is not it a noble cause to strive for otherwise?
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:42:01 EST (#)
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Scary Guy is right.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:41:33 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by whataefag (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:33:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by TheScaryGuy11 (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:19:00 EST (#)
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You're putting way too much faith into the public to make an informed choice, when in essence that isn't possible. I doubt we have any elitest members from the ultra rich part of american society on these forums, watching these boards able to clue us in on whats truly going on. Our founding father's only broke away from England because they were the ones paying taxes. They were all extremely wealthy already and didn't want to give a dime of their cash to the King. Hence, our revoluntionary war. Idiots whipped into a frenzy to break away from England.....ingenius don't you think? Anything the USA does and will ever do is for American interests period. All of those in one way or another having to do with making a quick buck.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:56:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Did you just get tired of writing or what? Started out fascinating, then just . . . ended.