Re: I'll believe corporations are people when they let them drive in the HOV lane ...

[Conrad Constantine <conrad () 1211 net>]

On 2/5/2013 1:30 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> The first *best* step is to take the money out of politics altogether.
>
> - ferg

that would involve taking the power out of having money too.

Politics is a modern day path to power and rulership, and the great 
families have a vested interest in maintaining their oligarchy by fiat.

You want some way to divorce the two? How about a rule that prevents 
succession-by-birth explicitly - and that holding an office precludes 
your offspring from doing the same.

now THAT would put the fox amongst the chickens!

I'm from the UK, we're used to peerage, because it's explicitly allowed 
by law. The USA has managed to create the same system, entirely without 
support of law, merely money and power.

Which funnily enough, is pretty much how peerage got started in the 
first place, and then they just had the church slap something about it 
being the will of god onto it. Fast forward yourself a couple of 
centuries and hey, you've got yourself a monarchy.

America enjoyed a brief period of enjoying a return to Classical forms 
of government, but appears to be rapidly returning back to the state of 
Feudalism that has been the norm for humanity for most of the last two 
millenia. Considering the sheer amount of time that humanity has 
languished in some variety of feudalism, you might consider it the 
natural state of things at this point... all systems intended to 
equalize resources and social justice are inevitably gamed into a format 
that comes to serve those with the will to power.




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