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Erverain Well, the first "monarch-type" leader would probably work his a** off to stabilize the country. From there, either his appointed successor or equivalent would hammer out the public works. After that, though, we might get the more militaristic or expansionist types. Of course, that's just a hypothetical in ideal conditions, so we'd probably get a crazy b*****d right from the start. In the link I had posted, the one on Plato's Republic, Socrates goes on about the "degeneration of government" or somesuch. Basically, when a government begins to break down, it goes like so: Best->Bravest(strongest)->Richest->descend to next level. And funnily enough, democracy is ri~ght on the bottom of the scale.
Why, though? A monarch can rule more securely when there's a crisis to make the people think his power grabbing and oppression are "necessary for the public good" or somesuch. They need a perpetual crisis or war.
Democracy, as well as any and all other forms of government, is flawed sufficiently to be broken.
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:17 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:32 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 8:55 pm
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lazycommie Erverain Well, sometimes I think an effective tyrant is more capable than a bumbling democracy. But that just be my own megalomania talking. If anything, I'd be a rather ineffectual leader... Capable, yes. But capable of what? Only of grabbing more power. Tyrants have only one thing in mind, power. Don't get me started on the failings of democracy... The only thing any government has on its mind is power. The difference is that tyrants can actually do whatever it takes to get it. Ever read "The Prince?" It's really very upsetting - pretty much it says "do whatever it takes to gain power, never say you have enough power, and do whatever you can to retain power. Also, rule fairly when not attaining power at any costs." Also, while our government may be severely flawed (or "broken,") it's not the kind of thing that can be disassembled and revamped overnight. It takes time to fix things - much longer than two months. Also, while it may be nice to hope that any crises wouldn't be faked. I mean, conspiracy theorists are already having a field day with the current state of things. Paranoia is pretty much contagious nowadays. I don't think I could stand it if things got anymore repressed...
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:52 am
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XxStephasaurusxXxRexxX lazycommie Erverain Well, sometimes I think an effective tyrant is more capable than a bumbling democracy. But that just be my own megalomania talking. If anything, I'd be a rather ineffectual leader... Capable, yes. But capable of what? Only of grabbing more power. Tyrants have only one thing in mind, power. Don't get me started on the failings of democracy... The only thing any government has on its mind is power. The difference is that tyrants can actually do whatever it takes to get it. Ever read "The Prince?" It's really very upsetting - pretty much it says "do whatever it takes to gain power, never say you have enough power, and do whatever you can to retain power. Also, rule fairly when not attaining power at any costs." Also, while our government may be severely flawed (or "broken,") it's not the kind of thing that can be disassembled and revamped overnight. It takes time to fix things - much longer than two months. Also, while it may be nice to hope that any crises wouldn't be faked. I mean, conspiracy theorists are already having a field day with the current state of things. Paranoia is pretty much contagious nowadays. I don't think I could stand it if things got anymore repressed...
Obama has made no pretense of trying to fix anything. He's a politician, and a would-be tyrant(but, hopefully, he's too stupid to succeed in that aim), all he wants is power. Such people can't fix anything, only break it further.
There's a big difference between "paranoia" and seeing where we're going and figuring we're in for a rough ride.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:22 pm
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lazycommie XxStephasaurusxXxRexxX lazycommie Erverain Well, sometimes I think an effective tyrant is more capable than a bumbling democracy. But that just be my own megalomania talking. If anything, I'd be a rather ineffectual leader... Capable, yes. But capable of what? Only of grabbing more power. Tyrants have only one thing in mind, power. Don't get me started on the failings of democracy... The only thing any government has on its mind is power. The difference is that tyrants can actually do whatever it takes to get it. Ever read "The Prince?" It's really very upsetting - pretty much it says "do whatever it takes to gain power, never say you have enough power, and do whatever you can to retain power. Also, rule fairly when not attaining power at any costs." Also, while our government may be severely flawed (or "broken,") it's not the kind of thing that can be disassembled and revamped overnight. It takes time to fix things - much longer than two months. Also, while it may be nice to hope that any crises wouldn't be faked. I mean, conspiracy theorists are already having a field day with the current state of things. Paranoia is pretty much contagious nowadays. I don't think I could stand it if things got anymore repressed... Obama has made no pretense of trying to fix anything. He's a politician, and a would-be tyrant(but, hopefully, he's too stupid to succeed in that aim), all he wants is power. Such people can't fix anything, only break it further. There's a big difference between "paranoia" and seeing where we're going and figuring we're in for a rough ride. Either way, we're going to have to give him more than two months to find out. I didn't mean to sound like I was accusing you of paranoia, but the fact is that it's all over the place nowadays. I don't disagree with you re: the rough ride, but we had to know that when Bush started ******** us in the a** and wallet simultaneously. It was always going to be a hard comeback, no matter who got elected.
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XxStephasaurusxXxRexxX lazycommie XxStephasaurusxXxRexxX lazycommie Erverain Well, sometimes I think an effective tyrant is more capable than a bumbling democracy. But that just be my own megalomania talking. If anything, I'd be a rather ineffectual leader... Capable, yes. But capable of what? Only of grabbing more power. Tyrants have only one thing in mind, power. Don't get me started on the failings of democracy... The only thing any government has on its mind is power. The difference is that tyrants can actually do whatever it takes to get it. Ever read "The Prince?" It's really very upsetting - pretty much it says "do whatever it takes to gain power, never say you have enough power, and do whatever you can to retain power. Also, rule fairly when not attaining power at any costs." Also, while our government may be severely flawed (or "broken,") it's not the kind of thing that can be disassembled and revamped overnight. It takes time to fix things - much longer than two months. Also, while it may be nice to hope that any crises wouldn't be faked. I mean, conspiracy theorists are already having a field day with the current state of things. Paranoia is pretty much contagious nowadays. I don't think I could stand it if things got anymore repressed... Obama has made no pretense of trying to fix anything. He's a politician, and a would-be tyrant(but, hopefully, he's too stupid to succeed in that aim), all he wants is power. Such people can't fix anything, only break it further. There's a big difference between "paranoia" and seeing where we're going and figuring we're in for a rough ride. Either way, we're going to have to give him more than two months to find out. I didn't mean to sound like I was accusing you of paranoia, but the fact is that it's all over the place nowadays. I don't disagree with you re: the rough ride, but we had to know that when Bush started ******** us in the a** and wallet simultaneously. It was always going to be a hard comeback, no matter who got elected.
Actually, two months is more than sufficient time to see some sort of change, given that the market is based on confidence and speculation, and any changes regarding it take place hour by hour or faster.
Bush didn't start the downslide we're in. Actually, believe it or not, Bush tried to push a thing which would have prevented the shitstorm involvinf fannie mae and freddie mac, but the dem controlled congress(not just the dems, as some "moderate" republicans also blocked it) blocked it and so we got stuck with this mess. Even then, we were on a downslide before Bush, and had been improving slowly post-9/11(9/11 was a huge drop, for obvious reasons). Blaming the mess on Bush doesn't fly.
I don't see it as a "hard comeback" under Obama. I see it as "I hope we can even make a comeback". He's quite possibly the worst person you could have put in the position, given his track record and what he pushed in the spendulus.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:39 am
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