Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Republic Manifesto
Let me start by explaining the difference between a Democracy and a Republic. A Democracy is like America, we have two main parties that hold power in the government. A Republic is a one party system, like China's. The careful observer will note that China is communist, and that is correct, most Republics are Communist in one way or another. Now, I have a proposition. We have to start by looking at the personalities of the American public as a bell curve, with conservatives and liberals being the two sides. Why is it that where the large mass of people are, the only party is the independents? The main parties of influence, Republican and Democrat, are on opposite ends of the bell curve. Our system of government takes a mass of rational functioning members of society and forces them in one direction or the other. This is creating two spirals growing farther and farther apart, each trying to thwart the other. But it doesn't have to be this way. What if a new party, one with the moderate views that make sense, took power, booting out either the reps or the dems. I predict that it would continuously gain supporters from whichever party it replaced, allowing it to overcome the other. And now we have a mass of rational people in congress, creating a one party system without having broken any laws. Within that one party, lets call it The People's Party, for that's what I plan on naming it if this works, you can have two sides, one going slightly liberal, one slightly conservative. They would be able to bring up all points of view without fighting amongst themselves. Each minority that desired could apply for a voice, as well, to make sure noone is left out. It would be a low key congress withing congress. Productive debate without hostillity. What do you think, could it work?
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From a guy named Berkeley that was profound. For a minute I thought one of the Founding Fathers was talking to me. Sign me up! You may want to double check check on the proposed party name; it may already be copyrighted. Can you get an attractive woman as your press agent? That seems to have worked for the Tea Party.
Grandpa O.
that's more than i can process in one blog post.
Can we all get matching uniforms, too? Sign me up! As long as I get to be in charge of something. Cuz all people are equal, but some are just more equal than others.
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