Anonymous deals with the eternal subject, in the Friday Free For All:
Once the huddled masses in a democracy figure out they can vote for more money for themselves the gig is up. They are on the brink of becoming self aware (a la Skynet). Two to three generations hence and the US will implode as the previously uncaring, disenfranchised masses vote themselves each a house and a $100,000/year annual bonus. The fat lady is warming up.
Or maybe I just got caught up in the thread...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Don't get me started on this one. This post is at the heart of why I am not a committed John McCain fan. Campaign finance has disproportionately hurt the Republican Party, specifically because the Republican Party happens to be the party to which people with means (and with the desire to attain means) seem to subscribe, and the Democratic Party is the party to which those without means (and those who bleed for them)subscribe. Take away money, that which enables Republican ideas and ideals to be more widely distributed, and we'll wind up with the demos turning into a mob. The Greeks tell us that that monarchy tends to devolve into tyranny, that aristocracy tends to devolve to oligarchy, and democracy tends to devolve to mobocracy. The tyranny of the mob is no less ugly than the tyranny of the dictator.
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