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Nonsense, Precedented and Petrified

Fire_Ready Wrote: Apr 08, 2012 12:05 PM

The problem as I see it is that the 'democratic' power of the people is seen as the solution to all our problems through political activism. The founders detested democracy, though we now present our form of government as a democracy. We are a representative republic, not a democracy. Democracy always eats itself and fails. The rule of law of the constitution is what constrains democracy. Politicians exploit the people. The media has become dominated by activist ideologues. The price of all the 'free stuff' promised by politicians is individual dignity and self respect. It has become a national disgrace. I think Mr. Jacob missed it on this one.

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Nonsense, Precedented and Petrified

When you hear the word “unprecedented,” reach for your . . . dictionary.

But when you hear someone say we should be “petrified” of “democracy,” what do you reach for, then?

Early last week, President Barack Obama railed against the Supreme Court and the possibility that it might overturn the 111th Congress’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, what most of us know as “Obamacare.” He said that would amount to “an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”

Nonsense, of course. Overturning...

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