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Tom Francis - SWSports

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:59:18 -0600, wrote:

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:31:35 -0800, justwaitafrekinminute wrote:

So another one who believes anyone that does not subscribe to his
ideology has a low IQ.. That is the type of anti-democratic elitism half
the country is afraid of...

While I understand, and I'm sympathetic to your point, I just wanted to
point out that "anti-democratic elitism" was built into the Constitution
by our founding fathers. It's why we are a republic, not a true
democracy. It's a tough question really. While I think I would prefer a
more democratic approach. There are dangers, populist rabble-rousers,
fascist movements, etc. The founding fathers may have been right. After
all, we haven't been doing our democratic duty of holding our leader's
feet to the fire.

And it's a point that a lot of people don't understand - the
democratic republic vs democracy. The states are set up as popular
democracies and the Federal government is set up as a functional
republic.

Personally, I think the system works fine just as it is with one
exception. We need to break up the big states into smaller states.
There is way too much ordinate political power in the larger states
what overwhelms the smaller, more conservative states.

I think the field needs to be evened out a little to bring balance
back into our legislatures, Congress and the Presidency.

--

"Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs even though
checkered by failure, than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt