voting

but at the same time if you don't vote you give sanction to the same slavery...

 

Imagine if the general population could simply vote on things they wanted and didn't want, without any corporate or government influence.

 

Wouldn't that be amazing?

 

it would be anarchy which is why our founders wisely went the republic route

 

democracies always blow it because the takers vote themselves stuff at the expense of the producers.

 

Now we're typing!

 

can just as easily be written... "voters always blow it because they vote themselves stuff at the expense of other voters."

 

Anarchy wouldn't allow that..bc there would be no redistributive government that can do the redistributing on voters behalf... "Government" would only be in the business of protecting property (your body, your physical property) any "law" would have to meet the Non-aggression principle . http://archive.lewrockwell.com/block/block26.html

 

^^^taken right from Ayn Rand

 

Republic? A confederation of States with autonomy? Lincoln put a bullet thru the head of that idea...but he wasn't the first Imperialist... and yet a century and some change later we still talk about being a Republic. We are a Corporatist Empire now. Your "vote" just offers political cover for the most evil policies that have ever been enacted in the name of "Democracy"

 

i buy into most of this except the corporatist part.

 

Actually its taken from the same moral code we teach Grade school children.

 

Where does Mills fall into w/ all this political philosophy stuff?...I remember reading On Liberty and it was pretty similar to that Non-aggression principle, in the overall message anyway.

 

good reading

 

Oh yea?
"Corporations are people too..." kinda sums it up nicely I thought...(thanks to Mitt!--but Obama believes that too)

 

Citizens United? Obamacare? These are all Fascist wet dreams!

 

Bank Bailouts? Tarp? same...