i also hope you make a distinction btwn governance [constitution, jurisprudence, ruthless competition, etc.] and gov’ts.
these are much different realities; i.e., there is a difference btwn management of a people’s affairs and guiding principles under which a gov’t shld labor? tnx

it wld be beneficial when talking about a better strucure of governance if we wld totaly avoid using the word “democracy”. No one has to date experienced it. It doesn’t exist anywhere and may never be possible; especially in utopian sense.

instead of using lofty and far- removed- from- reality- words like “democracy”, “capitalism”, or “socialism” let’s talk and muse about the basic panhuman rights.
such as right to healthcare, peace, to be educated/informed/represented by a political party, etc.
such basic rights- or as i say peoples’ inheritance- is obtainable but only thru a political party that wld diametrically oppose the one party uncle has.
uncle not being stupid to have two or more parties like most other lands; he’ ll do everything possible to thwart establishment of a party that wld represent low and lower classes.
it is up to young amers to get going or remain for decennia/centuries an underclass. tnx

as for an egalitarian constitution, they all start off that way but any document can and will be bent any way you need to bend it. Look at the Koran and the Bible both teaches love and understanding but people bend them to mean anything they will. Look at your self, you obviously have no respect for any opinion except your own, I am sure you and others here would be happy to enforce your belief on others thru the power of a constitution. This is a truism if you live in a huge county or a small village.

Moreover, as for my ugly (and you left out little) mind, what we see in others in mostly a reflection of our selves. I have read many of your comments, you say the most hurtful things about any one and anything that goes across the grain of what you believe, but you refuse to have your own beliefs examined.

See Enzo how easy it is?

Lichen, Direct demoracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. it works well as long as you are a majority but poorly when you are a minority.

Republicans are against abortion, but pro death penalty?
Republicans are patriotic, but majority in Texas & Georgia want to secede?
Republicans think Sarah Palin is some kind of leader?
Republicans leaders are Ann Coulter & Rush Limbaugh? Lol
Republicans think it is ok to spend billions on wars, but not healthcare?
Republicans call Obama socialist but Bush gave away trillions?
Republicans believe stem cell research is bad?
Republicans only issue is abortion? That’s all I ever hear.

Republicans are shrinking down to nothing and will never be more than a regional party anymore. Their who philosophy is out of touch with the mainstream. I actually voted for W, but will never vote Republican again.

Hahaha, if Friedman is resigning because of his ties to Goldman Sachs, then the whole goddamn government/federal reserve should resign.

GOLDMAN SACHS IS ON SOME EVIL TIP!

GO TO HTTP://WWW.MARXISTS.ORG AND LEARN WHY THE PRIVATE-SECTOR IS THE ENEMY OF PEOPLE, NOT THE STATE.

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USA CITIZENS HAVE BEEN DUMBED DOWN BY THE USA CAPITALIST GOVERNMENT

Chris Herz: US citizens have been relentlessly propagandized and “dumbed down”

http://vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=79576

VHeadline’s Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: As a young field grade officer, Hugo Chavez Frias was witness from the inside to the massive repression of its own helpless citizens by the then supposedly democratic government of Venezuela. Disgusted with shedding the blood of those whom his service was sworn to protect this obscure soldier attempted a coup against the violent corruption of the Fourth Republic. The rest is history.

This phenomenon is not uncommon in today’s world. Remember, it was a young Russian subaltern who instead of attacking Boris Yeltsin and the people of Moscow disobeyed his orders and turned his tank around to attend his real duty: To defend the citizens. That was the day the Soviet Union died. Then in Serbia, the army and the police refused their orders to fire on their own kinfolk. At that moment the dictator Milosevic was history!

I am forced to think of this reading in Le Monde Diplomatique how the French Army is using an old Soviet base in Germany to train for the suppression of uprisings in the Paris suburbs. And here in the USA the imperial Army is being made to reorganize itself for a role in what is laughably called “law enforcement”. Nervously its leaders prepare for the day when the battle of Fallujah will be re-fought in Detroit. Even with the heavy drain on its limited manpower this force retains 20,000 men in the homeland security forces.

What they will be defending, of course is the sort of law the bandits now plundering the US state enforce against everyone but themselves. How long the Army’s morale will bear this is anyone’s guess.

Nothing is more destructive to good order and military discipline than the misuse of an army in the suppression of democracy and its own people. Such forces become what we saw in Argentina, for instance. A military accustomed to assaulting its own unarmed civilians succumbed in the Malvinas almost immediately to a much smaller British professional force.

But as state after state loses political legitimacy what is left to a ruling oligarchy but to attempt to rest their regime upon their military command? A government like that of the Fourth Republic or like the USA now, is only a life-support system for a bunch of corrupt kleptocrats. And surely we have now enough experience with the corporate, bureaucratized state whether Soviet or capitalist to understand this is what it always must come to.

US citizens have been relentlessly propagandized and “dumbed down” by a corporate media for generations now. But this same people are also very heavily armed and exploit language in the national constitution to insist they keep these arms. For they also sense what is being done to them.

Last week two of my young journeymen took me with them to the country and with some other young men we met there we all had a merry time blazing away at targets with a quite considerable arsenal. I was amazed that among four men there were no less than a dozen weapons, two of which were but slightly modified modern military assault rifles. Each of which with a few minutes attention from any skilled machinist could become a light machine gun. There also were three Russian rifles and one German of World War vintage. Police-type shotguns and pistols completed the armory.

Here in the exurban landscape of the USA such people are far from unusual. In the cities thousands keep pistols in their homes. It is also now commonplace to hear from all sides of the need for rebellion. Most of these persons are deeply suspicious of both our ruling factions. They understand that the Republicans and the Democrats each represent no one other than factions of the elites. They dimly comprehend in a politically naive way that for many years the people have been abused. Manipulated, whipsawed between the two, for the glutting of what is now openly a parasitical elite. This is certainly just what I heard from my young colleagues.

Since 1789 the constitutional order of the USA has been a device for the organized plunder of nature and society by this elite. Most major change in US history, whether the separation from the British Empire, or the liberation of the slaves has not been addressed politically. It has taken armed struggle to really change things. The time is not distant when the regime in Washington must consider how to disarm the peasants. After all, if they wish to reduce wages to the Chinese or Mexican level, as they certainly do, they can hardly leave all these weapons in the hands of so many workers.

The Democratic Party have had for years impulses to start on this task. But the Republicans have cynically exploited this fear of disarmament in the face of corrupt and autocratic governance, so for the moment our armed workers exist in this fracture between the two ruling factions. But just as the task of the modern Democratic Party is now to figure out how to withdraw Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid from the people the task of the next Republican regime will be to discover some means of national disarmament.

An autocratic warfare state cannot do otherwise.

From the imperial capital

Chris Herz
moc.enildaehvnull@zreh.sirhc

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And as for the country “moving Left,” that would explain why all of these “progressive” idiots (progressive is a communist term, by the way) think that government should “solve” every problem known to man. If these jerks would pick their noses up out of their books, and actually strive to use the gray matter upstairs, they’d realize that government is the CAUSE of practically every major problem confronting this country, and will NEVER be the solution.

When I think that these tens of millions of stupid shits have the right to reproduce and vote for people who make laws, I want to start drinking until my kidneys explode. The only hope in the long run for this country is if the nearly 100 million gun owners finally decide they’ve had enough, and instead of killing their families or co-workers, they take care of the right people once and for all.