Is Democracy All That?

Maybe Pennsylvania's WMD would be off-the-mark at hit DC?

 

If PA's a threat I say we have a pre-emptive strike now! Maybe we can over throw the evil despot Santorum

 

ABSOLUTELY!! Literacy tests at the voting booth.

AND the registrar should only allow people of good moral character to register to vote, as testified to by two other registered voters. Literate and moral voters are the only ones who can make good choices.

Not only that, but we should just let the state legislatures elect Senators. They're more qualified.

And a poll tax. A poll tax would be good, too. People who want to vote should be willing to pay for the privilege.

We could also have primaries where only white people could vote for the candidates. Oh, and we should also form posses of local citizens, a secret society if you will, that keeps out by force anyone who should try and circumvent these laws and register unqualified citizens.

That WOULD improve our country!

 

Futbol ruleth.

How about a soccertocracy? The Beautiful Government ... hmmm, I like that.

MLS linespersons and referees need not apply.

 

Except that the world would be run by AC Milan (Motto: we couldn't score in a whorehouse) or Brazil (Motto: ow, my knee, no my head, where do I dive?)

 

Compare the words of the poor Alexander Hamilton to those of the poor Benito Mussolini:

"The liberty promised by the American and French revolutions has never and could have never really materialized under the democratic systems produced by those movements. Democracy merely provides the citizen with the placebo of the vote while providing fertile ground for plutocracy and oligarchy. Fascism is more honest. We do not deceive our people with placebos. Fascism's ideal is the good of all. Democracy's 'ideal' is the propagation of selfishness masked as the good of the individual, which necessarily brings corruption and eventually a pernicious oppression... which is made even more dangerous by the fact that it is deceptively concealed behind a veil of illusory liberty represented by the right to vote.....Are we despots? As much as Plato's ideal ruler was, I suppose."

 

Give me Aristotle or give me death.

 

Plato was Aristotle's teacher and Plato thought democracy was death.

Give me an Enlightened Dictatorship or give me death!