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2014-07-25 Home Front: Politix

Judge Andrew Napolitano: What If Democracy Is a Fraud?

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 "What if.........?"

I seem to recall my father and I having this discussion in I believe it was 1961. It would appear the Judge has figured it out as well. Behind the curtain, it certainly looks to be all the same. As the Judge points out, the sameness is reflection of a single party system, with two meaningless, theatrical names.

Big Gov't is simply proof of the fraud in simple numerics. Gov't employee pay scales now exceed that of the private sector worker performing similar work, with the added benefit of the Gov't worker being protected from termination or lay-off following his or her initial one year probationary period. The one party scheme is complete when gov't Civilian Personnel Office hiring targets the recruitment of the pesky entitlement crowd, who already support big gov't. We cannot beat them [literally or figuratively], so we'll just insist they join us.

It's become a giant, self-licking ice cream cone and police state that would be the envy of any former Soviet Union senior party functionary or African tribal chiefton.

I regret I have no solution. I fear we are in stage five, or for lack of a better term, the final Zimbabwefication.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-25 02:14|| 2014-07-25 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The Noble Experiment ended the moment public employee unions became legal.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-25 04:03|| 2014-07-25 04:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Democracy is fine. The people running it are the frauds.

Posted by Airandee 2014-07-25 08:14|| 2014-07-25 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Our system is supposed to be a federal republic, not a democracy. IIRC it was Adam Smith way back when that stated that democracy could only work until people figured out that they could vote themselves other peoples money.

Democracy is not a fraud anymore that capitalism is a fraud. What we have way to much of are re-definitions of terms until they are meaningless.

Liberal, Capitalism, Democracy, etc. don't mean what they used to mean anymore so talking about them doesn't amount to squat.

Posted by AlanC 2014-07-25 08:23|| 2014-07-25 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The socialist believe its a fraud and play it so to keep the outer party and proles amused. To the socialist there is no free will, only a primate hierarchical arrange of power in which they are the prime males. With out free will as a basis, there can be no self rule, plebiscites, contract, et al. Enjoy plebs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-25 09:02|| 2014-07-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 There is nothing wrong with the ideal of Democracy and a Republic. Benjamin Franklin said, "We have given you a democratic-republic… if you can keep it.”

The elitists have turned this country into a friggin third world banana republic or a Chicago thugocracy.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-25 09:14|| 2014-07-25 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Government by consent of the governed depends mostly on the quality of those so governed & consenting. The quality ain't what it used to be.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-25 11:35|| 2014-07-25 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The quality ain't what it used to be.
..you tend to get more of what you subsidize. Rewarding failure and punishing success sort of goes that way when stuffing the ballot box becomes the be all and end all of the game.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-25 12:51|| 2014-07-25 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 What if Napolitano sat on the Supreme Court?

Posted by Bobby 2014-07-25 13:43|| 2014-07-25 13:43|| Front Page Top

#10 It may not be a fraud, but the people running it sure are.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-25 13:53|| 2014-07-25 13:53|| Front Page Top

#11 When you think about running for office you begin to wonder why anyone in their right mind would subject themselves to life in the public eye. I think most sensible people would shy away from that. Then you have to consider the tremendous expense these days of running a political campaign. Who would do that and who would give them the money? I'm afraid that kind of power attracts the wrong kind of people and we certainly can't trust the moneyed interests who finance the campaigns. If we had some honest journalists who would really investigate these matters and scream bloody murder about what they found we might be alright. But if you want to be a successful journalist in this country you have to do what your employers tell you to do. It is worrisome.

The last time we had real civil unrest in this country was back in the 1960s and early 1970s. Lyndon Johnson lost his job. I remember those days and it really sucked. It felt like the whole country went insane after Kennedy got shot. After that Richard Nixon changed the course, slowly and not always the way everybody thought he should have. But he did bring about some changes. Maybe that's what it takes. I saw a Tea Party rally last weekend. I felt like pulling the car to the side of the road and joining them but Mrs. Uluque had other plans for me that day. When it gets to be as bad as it was in the 1960s those other plans might have to take a back seat. I just hope it's not too late.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-25 16:10|| 2014-07-25 16:10|| Front Page Top

#12 EU, I too lived through the '60s and it did suck.

My fear is that the militarization of police and all federal agencies (the EPA with SWAT teams) means that if it looks to go bad it will go bad much faster than the '60s.

Think about the fall of the USSR. No real problems than, poof, tanks in the street.

Posted by AlanC 2014-07-25 16:24|| 2014-07-25 16:24|| Front Page Top

#13 ..oh, there were real problems. Gorby knew cause he had a separate means of assessment rather than the 'official' reports that were only penned with what the apparatchiks knew their uppers wanted to hear. Just like the bureaucracy in the Beltway keeps telling the movers of the levers of government that its all working (see-VA et al).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-25 18:27|| 2014-07-25 18:27|| Front Page Top

#14 P2k, I should have specified hidden problems.

Your apparatchiks are known here as the MSM. They'll keep everything under wraps as long as possible...............then boom.

Posted by AlanC 2014-07-25 20:11|| 2014-07-25 20:11|| Front Page Top

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