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View Poll Results: Which form of government do you prefer?
We are going to try and throw out the modern political definitions. Forget all the Democrats or Republicans you thought were misguided, corrupt, or just plain evil. For this poll we are using small d and small r republican and democrat.
In this poll a republican is one that prefers semi autonomous regional control and elected represenatives. As in a purely republican form of government.
A democrat is one that prefers more centralized control and popular elections that are based on majority rule. As in a pure democracy.
Both are governments of the people but they are just different flavors.
Which one do you prefer and why.
Republic:
1. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
2. A nation that has such a political order.
3. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation. Democracy:
1. Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
3. Majority rule.
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“votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.” ~H. L. Mencken
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I got to go with the ole fashion pledge of allegiance route.
Quote:
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
With all the people that support the 'spreading of democracy' and others seemingly opposed to the idea of 'states rights' and the electoral college I had to wonder if some people would profess to prefer a democracy in their own country.
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“votes are collared under democracy, not by talking sense but by talking nonsense.” ~H. L. Mencken
I've been toying with the idea of a new form of government.
Here's what we have now.
A electoral college elected executive branch.
A popularly elected representative branch.
Finally an appointed Judiciary to keep the other two in check.
Various state and local governments.
We turn the state and local stuff over to pure democracy and fire everyone not in the executive branches.
We get rid of our representatives in congress completely and we give the executive branch full powers to do as they wish subject to popular veto.
We leave the judiciary as another check on the executive branch.
For instance if the executive branch wanted to start executing people for wearing the wrong clothes they would stop that.
etc etc.
Now one interesting dynamic that would come of this is that if you notice pork projects are gone.
We'd save Trillions.
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I voted republic because a democracy just seems like too many problems with one big power...
Well hopefully a lot lower, the executive branch could be over ridden by either the Supreme Court or by popular vote say if 55% agreed, maybe 60% so as to make it hard enough it didn't occur all the time.
I don't see how under that system you are going to sneak by a ton of pork projects.
I'd think things would be very very different and built more on need and make sense types of motivations.
Or we could just outsource every thing to India, Brilliant!
I mean how much more annoying could the IRS be even if it had an Indian accent?
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
We have a Technocratic Military/Industrial/Financial/Media State.
Voting is just eyewash.
I'm happy as long as I have my Ipod and cable TV.
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