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"Everything about the American system is designed to prevent a Ceasar from rescuing the system from it's own corruption via the assumption of dictatorial power"
It's funny, the American founding fathers were Romeaboos but took the exact wrong lessons from Rome; they read historians like Livy and Tacitus who romanticized the Republic and bemoaned the loss of the parasitic senator class' power, conveniently ignoring the fact that Rome was most stable, successful and powerful under the control of monarchs. Hell, it was kinder to its neighbors, too: the image of Rome as this militaristic, bloodthirsty empire is pretty much only applicable to the Republic, while the Empire had extremely stable borders.
When Augustus said "I have restored the Republic", many erroneously believe this was a cynical ploy to keep the illusion of "Republican" government, but this is anachronistically projecting the modern definition of Republic backwards; the /res publica/ he claimed to restore could be thought of as the "will of the people" (or perhaps "commonwealth"), which his regime absolutely upheld compared to the senate.
Some overlap between this article and the libertarian take on the State. Its hard to look at the existing system and not come away with the notion that all the State is is a band of thugs that exploit the base for money and resources. Literally every single thing the state does today is just a scam to funnel money to the top.
Its hard to tell if this is inherent in all government or if it's unique to ours.
The libertarian take is that private ownership is preferred to democracy for the reasons you stated. But the king or "owner" can become decadent or partake in bioleninism as well.
I wonder if its simply part of the cycle of humanity and nothing can really be done to change it.
I've often thought that since it's the federal government which has outgrown the Constitution, maybe it would be better to dissolve the union and go back to being sovereign states. Maybe not 50, but definitively not one big country.
One quibble: Augustus tried to regulate Roman sexuality in the first century. We're talking death sentence for adulterers. Now it was wildly unpopular and unenforceable, but he tried. Goes to show it isn't a new or monotheistic phenomenon.
Even dictators inevitably have to deal with and placate interest groups with their own little grifts; it takes a truly brilliant dictator to cut through all that crap.
I like the take. {this} US Fedgov might actually be the worst, not bc others are perfect, but just because they’re somewhat more honest about what they are. I hope more folks read John Carter’s latest not as conjecture but as a straight roll up of observable fact.
Wow! America is the worst! Who knew? Worse than North Korea or Syria, both of whom have hereditary leaders? Or if you prefer junta, maybe Egypt would be to your liking? I am sure all those countries find innovative ways to humiliate and erase their sexual minorities, so
I’m sure you’ll find them fabulous places to live. Please, don’t let us stop you from finding the exit from America and immigrating to those delightful nations, or any other nation for that matter.
The line we must draw and defend: We are Human Beings made by God and in the image of God.
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office who will do the right thing.
True Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule and regulation on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
Why is America Dying?
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, in reference to the question: Ross Perot stated that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people in America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable."
Now, it is a known fact
that the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read or debate the particulars contained in any of the typically 100 new laws they vote on each day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for the Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The math demonstrates that the "democratically elected representative" does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. And since the duly elected Representative is incapable of evaluating 200 thousand pages of law speak per day they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
So, the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making some more tragic mistakes from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
Ross Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computers and he called the program: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL, and said, "it is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government".
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
g. We, the People, could actually direct the priorities of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
Why shouldn’t your vote really count?
We can acquire the text of a recent law or Supreme Court ruling and have AI parse its actionable elements, apply a questionnaire so that the concerned Citizens can Ratify or Annul it. Then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Websites with traffic can put up the laws they find most egregious for Ratification or Annulment, probably charge a $1 or so per voter for doing it, and watch the evolution in real time.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the result of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
We tried and have failed as another government with the most free pretenses as of yet in history, is going down in flames. It was a great idea and it has gone on for a little while but began to crumble in slow motion after the Civil War.
As long as you are under the yoke of any government, even ours, you are not truly free. There will always be someone power hungry, extremely arrogant and a complete control freak who seeks to destroy humanity.
> Same with farm policy, it will always be set by the narrow concentrated interest of corporate food producers and recipients of subsidized government food stuff:
"Everything about the American system is designed to prevent a Ceasar from rescuing the system from it's own corruption via the assumption of dictatorial power"
It's funny, the American founding fathers were Romeaboos but took the exact wrong lessons from Rome; they read historians like Livy and Tacitus who romanticized the Republic and bemoaned the loss of the parasitic senator class' power, conveniently ignoring the fact that Rome was most stable, successful and powerful under the control of monarchs. Hell, it was kinder to its neighbors, too: the image of Rome as this militaristic, bloodthirsty empire is pretty much only applicable to the Republic, while the Empire had extremely stable borders.
When Augustus said "I have restored the Republic", many erroneously believe this was a cynical ploy to keep the illusion of "Republican" government, but this is anachronistically projecting the modern definition of Republic backwards; the /res publica/ he claimed to restore could be thought of as the "will of the people" (or perhaps "commonwealth"), which his regime absolutely upheld compared to the senate.
Some overlap between this article and the libertarian take on the State. Its hard to look at the existing system and not come away with the notion that all the State is is a band of thugs that exploit the base for money and resources. Literally every single thing the state does today is just a scam to funnel money to the top.
Its hard to tell if this is inherent in all government or if it's unique to ours.
The libertarian take is that private ownership is preferred to democracy for the reasons you stated. But the king or "owner" can become decadent or partake in bioleninism as well.
I wonder if its simply part of the cycle of humanity and nothing can really be done to change it.
I've often thought that since it's the federal government which has outgrown the Constitution, maybe it would be better to dissolve the union and go back to being sovereign states. Maybe not 50, but definitively not one big country.
One quibble: Augustus tried to regulate Roman sexuality in the first century. We're talking death sentence for adulterers. Now it was wildly unpopular and unenforceable, but he tried. Goes to show it isn't a new or monotheistic phenomenon.
Even dictators inevitably have to deal with and placate interest groups with their own little grifts; it takes a truly brilliant dictator to cut through all that crap.
So absolutely no question why Nikki Haley won DC.
I like the take. {this} US Fedgov might actually be the worst, not bc others are perfect, but just because they’re somewhat more honest about what they are. I hope more folks read John Carter’s latest not as conjecture but as a straight roll up of observable fact.
Wow! America is the worst! Who knew? Worse than North Korea or Syria, both of whom have hereditary leaders? Or if you prefer junta, maybe Egypt would be to your liking? I am sure all those countries find innovative ways to humiliate and erase their sexual minorities, so
I’m sure you’ll find them fabulous places to live. Please, don’t let us stop you from finding the exit from America and immigrating to those delightful nations, or any other nation for that matter.
The Electronic Congress
The line we must draw and defend: We are Human Beings made by God and in the image of God.
It is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office who will do the right thing.
True Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule and regulation on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.
Why is America Dying?
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, in reference to the question: Ross Perot stated that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people in America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable."
Now, it is a known fact
that the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read or debate the particulars contained in any of the typically 100 new laws they vote on each day, every five minutes, while in session.
Approximate absolute facts:
a. Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.
b. The representatives are given two weeks to review the laws before they are brought up for the Vote.
c. Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.
d. Many laws are in excess of two thousand pages.
e. The math demonstrates that the "democratically elected representative" does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.
f. And since the duly elected Representative is incapable of evaluating 200 thousand pages of law speak per day they have all forfeited their delegated obligation to represent us.
So, the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making some more tragic mistakes from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves, The Citizens, from whom the authority for government comes in the first place, in the decision making process.
The Electronic Congress
How it works:
1. Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.
2. Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.
Ross Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computers and he called the program: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL, and said, "it is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government".
This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.
Just imagine:
g. We, the People, could actually direct the priorities of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries and local police departments.
If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.
How to implement it:
We talk about it until it is done.
Why shouldn’t your vote really count?
We can acquire the text of a recent law or Supreme Court ruling and have AI parse its actionable elements, apply a questionnaire so that the concerned Citizens can Ratify or Annul it. Then distribute the links.
Can I make money with this?
Websites with traffic can put up the laws they find most egregious for Ratification or Annulment, probably charge a $1 or so per voter for doing it, and watch the evolution in real time.
Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.
When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the result of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall
overcome Evil and then we all live happily ever after.
Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency he would give us The Electronic Townhall.
The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living until the end of time.
We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.
The Electronic Townhall
Black pill. Not taking.
We tried and have failed as another government with the most free pretenses as of yet in history, is going down in flames. It was a great idea and it has gone on for a little while but began to crumble in slow motion after the Civil War.
As long as you are under the yoke of any government, even ours, you are not truly free. There will always be someone power hungry, extremely arrogant and a complete control freak who seeks to destroy humanity.
Thank you for correctly identifying and advocating for the only solution. People need to escape blue states NOW.
Greer's theory of an Amercian Chavez is more serious. And it is also written in proper English.
> Same with farm policy, it will always be set by the narrow concentrated interest of corporate food producers and recipients of subsidized government food stuff:
Optimist.
https://thepostmillennial.com/letitia-james-sues-beef-producer-for-misleading-public-about-environmental-impact-of-agriculture