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The republican form of government is clearly an unsuccessful form. Where is evidence that it works at all? Every single country that has it has huge corruption
by mnm1 9y ago
The republican form of government is clearly an unsuccessful form. Where is evidence that it works at all? Every single country that has it has huge corruption problems, election problems, or both. Maybe it's time to let go of this dumb idea that should have been left back in high school: "let the popular kids in school rule." We have the technology (USPS) and have had it for well over a hundred years to do direct democracy and have the people actually rule instead of this metaphorical "rule by the people" that is a joke. As far as I can tell, other republics are no better. Whether the corruption is legal (US) or not (most other countries), the outcome is the same. But perhaps it is not man's nature to desire freedom. I think few people actually do and too many pretend to.
- mercer 9y agoI don't see a need to be partisan about it. The dynamics of power and corruption are strong enough that whichever 'side' they pick is relatively irrelevant.
- scrub_tier 9y agoPerhaps the poster isn't particularly articulate. There are hawks on both sides of the isle, but I'm not necessarily convinced that they're comparably equal. I personally would be interested who's backers benefit most from policies of force, and perhaps map it to their economic incentives in state economies and campaigning. I get the impression it's at least publicly conceived that Republican appeal to a more hardline defensive policies looking back 4 administrations, at least at a policy level.
- mnm1 9y agoNo you completely misunderstood the argument like the other comment and capitalized republican when I clearly had it lowercase and am obviously talking about republics, not the Republican party.
- mnm1 9y agoThis isn't a partisan issue. I'm obviously taking about republics, not the Republican party.