I am losing faith in our representative democracy

[Confounding]

There's too much gridlock; shit moves too slowly. All we do is trip and fall repeatedly as we try to walk in ten different directions shackled to each other. I know it's working as intended, but what was intended doesn't work well with a world that is becoming more and more fast-paced. I want a system that is capable of making big and bold decisions in a timely manner. I want to see the ball rolling. I am tired of the status quo, the same shit different day. Something needs to change.

 

[Muhammed]

There's too much gridlock; shit moves too slowly. All we do is trip and fall repeatedly as we try to walk in ten different directions shackled to each other. I know it's working as intended, but what was intended doesn't work well with a world that is becoming more and more fast-paced. I want a system that is capable of making big and bold decisions in a timely manner. I want to see the ball rolling. I am tired of the status quo, the same shit different day. Something needs to change.

Could you be more vague?

 

[Terri4Trump]

There's too much gridlock......

Thats because the Democrat Party has been taken over by anti-American socialist extremists, and the GOP is trying to stop them from destroying whats left of America,

 

[Confounding]

Could you be more vague?

I don't know what the answer is. I just believe we can do better. I find myself not believing in our way of doing things anymore.

 

[Oddball]

It was meant to be slow.....It doesn't work because numerous changes have been made to the original charter, which are designed to ignore and circumvent its limitations.

 

[Mac1958]

There's too much gridlock; shit moves too slowly. All we do is trip and fall repeatedly as we try to walk in ten different directions shackled to each other. I know it's working as intended, but what was intended doesn't work well with a world that is becoming more and more fast-paced. I want a system that is capable of making big and bold decisions in a timely manner. I want to see the ball rolling. I am tired of the status quo, the same shit different day. Something needs to change.

There's only two ways to have a "system that is capable of making big and bold decisions in a timely manner".

One is a dictatorship, and the other is having the Executive and Legislative branches communicating, collaborating and innovating with the best interests of the country in mind, not tribal, petty, party-over-country partisan politics.

I wouldn't hold my breath on either.
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[Natural Citizen]

The chief characteristic and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority.

In a Democracy, The Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.

This is true whether it be a Direct Democracy, or a Representative Democracy.


A Republic, on the other hand, (ahem) has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general.

The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term "the people" means, of course, the electorate.


So. That said, I am losing faith in our Republic. Why is that? I'll tell you why. All of the numbskulls complaining about 'our representative democracy'...like it's some form of government we run or something....when they're getting precisely what they're asking for by misrepresenting 'our Republic.'

 

[Confounding]

It was meant to be slow.

Yeah, I noted my awareness of that clearly in the OP. Sorry to say this but I don't really deify all of the opinions of people from the 1700s that were less educated than me and had no concept of what the world would be like centuries later.

 

[Oddball]

It was meant to be slow.

Yeah, I noted my awareness of that clearly in the OP. Sorry to say this but I don't really deify all of the opinions of people from the 1700s that were less educated than me and had no concept of what the world would be like centuries later.

Could you manage to be just a wee bit more arrogant?

 

[Dekster]

There's too much gridlock; shit moves too slowly. All we do is trip and fall repeatedly as we try to walk in ten different directions shackled to each other. I know it's working as intended, but what was intended doesn't work well with a world that is becoming more and more fast-paced. I want a system that is capable of making big and bold decisions in a timely manner. I want to see the ball rolling. I am tired of the status quo, the same shit different day. Something needs to change.

I agree. The democratic party should be labeled a terrorist organization.

 

[sparky]

The chief characteristic and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority.

In a Democracy, The Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.

This is true whether it be a Direct Democracy, or a Representative Democracy.


A Republic, on the other hand, (ahem) has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general.

The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution--adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment--with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term "the people" means, of course, the electorate.


So. That said, I am losing faith in our Republic. Why is that? I'll tell you why. All of the numbskulls complaining about 'our representative democracy'...like it's some form of government we run or something....when they're getting precisly what they're asking for by misrepresenting 'our Republic.'

I don't see that we're either scenario any longer NC....

~S~

 

[CWayne]

There's too much gridlock; shit moves too slowly. All we do is trip and fall repeatedly as we try to walk in ten different directions shackled to each other. I know it's working as intended, but what was intended doesn't work well with a world that is becoming more and more fast-paced. I want a system that is capable of making big and bold decisions in a timely manner. I want to see the ball rolling. I am tired of the status quo, the same shit different day. Something needs to change.

A system like that makes big and bold mistakes at breakneck speed.

 

[Confounding]

Could you manage to be just a wee bit more arrogant?

Most of you are more educated than the founders too, and have more relevant context to base your opinions on because you actually live in the current times. They said some good shit and gave us something decent to work with, but the deification of everything they said is really kind of ridiculous.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I don't see that we're either scenario any longer NC....

~S~

Yeah. Seems so. Congress is basically handing off its responsibility to 9 appointed clowns in gowns. What a mess. We'll be a monarchy before we know it. lol.

 

[Oddball]

Could you manage to be just a wee bit more arrogant?

Most of you are more educated than the founders too, and have more relevant context to base your opinions on because you actually live in the current times. They said some good shit and gave us something decent to work with, but the deification of everything they said is really kind of ridiculous.

There's no deification here, bub....The Framers limited the federal government to a very few and specific areas....That it has been grown to vastly exceed its authority isn't the fault of the model, it's the fault of those who changed it for the expansion of their power, using the the aforementioned light and transient causes as an excuse.

Piously claiming that we're all so much smarter now is entirely immaterial.

 

[Oddball]

I don't see that we're either scenario any longer NC....

~S~

Yeah. Seems so. Congress is basically handing off its' responsibility to 9 appointed clowns in gowns. What a mess. We'll be a monarchy before we know it. lol.

Another band of Bozos who have greatly exceeded their authority....As though that's the fault of the original charter.

 

[sparky]

That it has been grown to vastly exceed its authority isn't the fault of the model, it's the fault of those who changed it for the expansion of their power,

agreed Odd one

yet everytime i mention we are loosing our liberties to such factions, i'm labeled a liberal, a leftie , etc etc

~S~

 

[occupied]

Apathy serves the elites. If you are losing faith in our institutions then that is exactly what the plutocracy wants.

 

[Oddball]

Apathy serves the elites. If you are losing faith in our institutions then that is exactly what the plutocracy wants.

Nobody should have faith in those institutions....They should all be held under the deepest of suspicion.

It's your subservient bovine mindset that serves the plutocracy.

 

[22lcidw]

That it has been grown to vastly exceed its authority isn't the fault of the model, it's the fault of those who changed it for the expansion of their power,

agreed Odd one

yet everytime i mention we are loosing our liberties to such factions, i'm labeled a liberal, a leftie , etc etc

~S~

Perhaps liberalism is more associated with larger government with Repub help. With larger government comes less liberties.