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"frank" wrote in message ... Everett M. Greene wrote: bluenosepiperflyer writes: I stand corrected. Your statement is almost a verbatim quote of what I find in The American Heritage Dictionary about usage of "capital". [Isn't English a fun language!] In our nation's capital a bunch of self-serving white-collar criminals sit in our capitol building and **** away our capital. You and your neighbors elected them. They were (re)elected primarily because they "brought home the bacon". By the bucket load. Everybody got their own little "fix". -- Matt Barrow Performance Homes, LLC. Cheyenne, WY -- In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville famously concludes with a warning of the kind of despotism democratic nations have to fear. Tocqueville warns that the passion for equality will give rise to a certain kind of degradation in which citizens will surrender their freedom democratically to a tutelary power: Above these [citizens] an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; it likes citizens to enjoy themselves provided that they think only of enjoying themselves. It willingly works for their happiness; but it wants to be the unique agent and sole arbiter of that; it provides for their security, foresees and secures their needs, facilitates their pleasures, conducts their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their estates, divides their inheritances; can it not take away from them entirely the trouble of thinking and the pain of living? *** Subjection in small affairs manifests itself every day and makes itself felt without distinction by all citizens. It does not make them desperate, but it constantly thwarts them and brings them to renounce the use of their wills. Thus little by little, it extinguishes their spirits and enervates their souls.... |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
You and your neighbors elected them. They were (re)elected primarily because they "brought home the bacon". By the bucket load. Everybody got their own little "fix". That is such a trite argument. Sure, and all the kids can become president, too. The party machine and money (lots of it) decides which of a couple of crooks end up on my ballot. |
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"Frank" wrote in message ... Matt Barrow wrote: You and your neighbors elected them. They were (re)elected primarily because they "brought home the bacon". By the bucket load. Everybody got their own little "fix". That is such a trite argument. Truth hurts, donut? Sure, and all the kids can become president, too. Welcome to a Republic come democracy in the post-modern culture. The party machine and money (lots of it) decides which of a couple of crooks end up on my ballot. Last Senate election in my area, there were five different parties on the ballot -- D, R, Lib, Green, Constitution. As for "trite", it's rather trite to rail against politicians who have been re-elected four, five, eight times. Every time they ran and ran again, there was an opposition candidate. Or, you can just engage in denial. |
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