- Luke Hobbs
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How do we show the Governments around the world that they have become the very monsters they once sought to fight?
In an ideal world, the creation of Parliament was to stop a singular family Monarchy ruling over the entirety of a nation, so that a more "equal" governing method could be used to represent the needs of the people rather than the opinion of a single ruler.
However, all I see now is that Governments have ended up becoming just another Monarchy, creating class gaps, oppression and not working towards improving societies at all.
What can we do to show these Governments that they work for us, represent us, and are employed by us as public SERVANTS and not insidious rulers?
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Random Chance 30+
They know exactly what they are doing.
They don't care if you call them names, say they are stupid, continue to throw up your hands in confusion as to the denial they are in. They aren't. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care.
Wake up. They know exactly what they are and what they are doing. They are doing what they do intentionally.
Their goals don't include you except to use you and then discard you.
They intend on taking every thing away from everyone.
I have a relative who actually has come to believe that everything is the property of the government.
This relative doesn't want the government to give the people everything for free!
It doesn't belong to the government! It isn't theirs. Besides, this person worked for it so why is it taken away from them or made even more difficult to get?
It isn't the government who is to give whatever to them, but it is this relative, and other citizens who should give it to themselves! They are the ones who produced it or worked for it. This is nuts. It is insanity to think that way.
Again, decades ago, a book was written, influenced by WWII, about (a paraphrased title) "How to ensure we (people) don't allow Monsters to gain political power again", a la Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.
We have. The very same kinds of monsters are in power and new ones are running for the vacancies everywhere. This is the reality the people of the world must change. Voting will not do it. Sorry.
edward long 100+
Voting is the only thing that will do it. I cannot vote except in my own country. If every free (having the right to vote) nation elects decent, fair leaders the world WILL IMPROVE. Not exercising one's right to vote and is one of the most helpful things a citizen can do to further the cause of evil leaders. Vote sir, vote!
Luke Hobbs
edward long 100+
edward long 100+
Fiscal bullying is a reality. Wealthy people can wield great influence for good, or for evil. That is all the more reason for free people to vote at every opportunity. It is the ONLY safguard we have against those bent on conforming us to their will. I agree there is corruption in democracy, but there is also hope. QUOTE: "Where elections end, slavery begins."-- John Quincy Adams
Don Wesley 50+
Julius Newman
“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation”: James Garfield
its supply and demand, if you have supply you can make demands
edward long 100+
Luke Hobbs
Random Chance 30+
Especially after the 2000 Preferential Election?
I don't and you have every right to but things are not changing for the better and voting still allows two lousy choices and nothing more.
Sorry, but when Ralph Nader ran for office, he was marginalized, pushed aside, made fun of and for all practical purposes, kept out of debates just like Ron Paul.
What we do know of Ralph Nader is that for 40 years he worked for the people of America, in many different respects and achieved a tremendous amount of change that benefited citizens.
He lived in one small room for 25 years and could have become incredibly wealthy but passed up the money to work for change.
If he said he could do something, he was telling the truth. If he said what it is he has done, everyone knew he was telling the truth. If he had ideas on how to go about affecting good change as President, one would have to believe that he could, that he knows how and that he would, to the best of his ability.
What was he running against? Morons who said anything just to get a vote. Morons who had no real portfolios to speak of. Some had even ruined businesses, states, or were investigated for wrong-doing after they left their position in order to run for President.
And then Al Gore won, and Bush went in. Now, in California, I believe, there is no limit on how much can be spent on a candidate, meaning Senators will represent companies, not the people. There is much, much more, but go ahead and believe another one of America's failing parachutes, still works.
edward long 100+
Luke Hobbs
I liken the government/people relationship to be much like a computer and its software: the hardware is the land, the software the people, and "windows" the government. However, without a decent antivirus, the system gets filled with malware and eventually things start working against you. This is when governments start getting infected with ideas of power, control and profit either internally or through external factors like corporations.
What we need is a metaphorical anti-virus/anti-malware program, a government designed to keep an eye on the government, to keep it clean and functioning for our benefit, not against us. We need Watchmen.