This all goes full circle. If you want an example of what happens when the Democrats control all branches of government, look to Illinois. They have fractioned and fought each other to the point of gridlock.

Popular phrase about 235 years ago. Ahem.”

That’s why I favor a vote being weighted in proportion to the marginal rate. “No taxation without proportional representation!”

By the way the Japanese believed their “spirit” could trump America’s industrial and material superiority. They were wrong. Miscalculations are the cause of disasters, because people believe their own lies and fantasies.

And who can believe in socialism and not be addicted to fantasies?

Great Idea! And I think its realistic and feasible. LBJ accomplished it, in Florida and Texas with NASA. He got the idea from Jules Verne

The wealth we have generated since Carter has been staggering. There is now a whole class of people who never work a day in their lives and live off the wealth accumulated by previous generations. They do not know how to produce anything themselves. Add to that the number of people who WIll not produce anything and live off welfare or have benefits handed to them that they haven’t earned and you have a recipe for disaster.

Everyone feels they are entitled to have their way about everything… which of course cannot happen. Something has to give and the first thing that goes is civility.

A friend of mine recently moved to France and it is shocking how much the middle class there is like our underclass here. No one wants to work. They all game the system and try to informally attach themselves to other people who ARE productive so that they can get benefits from both their partners and the government. There are few marriages and lasting attachments and there is no philosophical basis that underpins the country. There are no limits to what the government can do.

Every society has to decide how to handle its ignorant and indolent. Through much of history they would be rounded up and used for canon fodder or sent to grind their bones down building monuments to the king. Now we bribe them to be good. But the bribes have to be bigger and bigger while the appreciation is less and less and less and less is expected in return. Eventually they come to feel that they are entitled to all of these things.

They have discovered they can vote themselves a share of your possessions instead of having to break into your house and steal them. Imagine their delight! Our society has sanctioned this approach and they feel no shame in applying force to achieve their goals no matter how large or how trivial. They will just as easily demand your child be conscipted for comunity service, or demand you spend time separating your trash as they will call for a fairness doctrine, or an increase in taxes, or for a pony at every birthday party, or for a ban on whatever the fad of the moment is… transfats, smoking, free speach, guns. It is all of a piece. Their thirst to control what others do and what others have cannot be slaked. All of the safeguards afforded by the constitution have been systematically dismantled. On what basis can we refuse them?

The only solution is that they must be shamed and humbled. The most likely way this will occur is with another disastrous presidency such as Carter’s so that a new generation can learn the same lessons all over again. If we had a functioning school system where the history curriculum did more than indoctrinate children into left-wing dogma then this wouldn’t be necessary. But when “men” like Bill Ayers populate the ranks of our academia there is no way to avoid disasters like this. If we can’t learn the results of tyranny and market interference in the classroom then we are doomed learn these lessons in the real world.

Gravity would still be just as strong a force even if it weren’t recognised as such by academia. Just as immutable is the fact that no society can reward idleness and intrigue without breeding even more of it.

Our system of democratic accountability has definitely broken down. It’s funny how celebrities of the “democratic” party always seem to be grappling for the levers when democracy collapses.

Coincidence? Imagine an aging President Reagan dignifying the Bolivar’s by certifying their latest Pharaoh for “the International Community.” Wouldn’t happen. Ever.

What balderdash!