" Liberal Democracy, All Roads Lead to Slavery "
June 8, 2005, Janice Rogers Brown, an African-American daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, was confirmed to the Court of Appeals for Wash. D.C. ( the most influential appellate court in the country) .
The title of this piece is a quotation from a former speech. She has also said, " If we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a kleptocracy- a license to steal, a warrant for oppression." I say Amen.
Refreshing words. Finally someone is saying the obvious. We need more like her. Like Rome and the Athenians before them, republics and democracies all end when social redistribution becomes an end in itself. They end even faster when the bill for entitlements are unaffordable. Bread and circus for the Romans is akin to Washington's bureauacracies of largesse to all comers who can pay the price of political support.
We are not all equal. We are known by our differences. Any system of government that does not mimic those realities will not last as long as those who do.
The title of this piece is a quotation from a former speech. She has also said, " If we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a kleptocracy- a license to steal, a warrant for oppression." I say Amen.
Refreshing words. Finally someone is saying the obvious. We need more like her. Like Rome and the Athenians before them, republics and democracies all end when social redistribution becomes an end in itself. They end even faster when the bill for entitlements are unaffordable. Bread and circus for the Romans is akin to Washington's bureauacracies of largesse to all comers who can pay the price of political support.
We are not all equal. We are known by our differences. Any system of government that does not mimic those realities will not last as long as those who do.
posted by Barry Leonardini at 9:34 AM
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A democracy is only as good as its constitution and bill of rights. When the US Constitution was ammended (16th)to support an income tax the foundation of our democracy cracked. Now voters routinely choose to tax somebody else for "noble social causes." Whatever happened to equal protection?
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