I was watching a panel discussion on C-SPAN awhile ago, in which a person declared that the Democracy movement needs to join forces with the anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, and anti-globalization movements. If that isn’t a loaded proposition, I don’t know what is. First of all, we’ve already considered what Democracy is, be it representative or popular. Those in the citizenry who…
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Chapter 2 – Democracy of the people, by the politicians, for whom again?
Choose Your Weapon: Representative Democracy Or Popular Democracy Rather than ask the usual question about which political system is better, allow me to ask which is worse: representative Democracy or popular Democracy? On the one hand, you have political officials who enjoy astoundingly high re-election rates (percentages in the high 90’s) and who aren’t very accountable to the citizenry; instead,…
Chapter 1 – Why politics is so confusing
Politics In Mid-Stream Here’s the bottom line, the condition of our political patient we call America: It’s in the intensive care unit, suffering from all sorts of cuts and contusions, and quite a bit of internal bleeding. It’s been attacked by an onslaught of injustice and immorality. Simply put, we don’t live in a free country. America is not the…