And you think no-one's ever going to do this sort of thing again...hahahaha. I think otherwise. I wish we could arrest our leaders. T Bleuch would be first on my list, followed by GWB, but my months (nay years) of apoplexy over this have only left me exhausted and secure in the knowledge that those people will get away with it. However, we have to blame someone; and get angry at someone: even the folk on our own side advising restraint.
"So that the same people can't do the same thing again." Success is not guaranteed, but that doesn't mean we should not try to make it harder to do it again. Similarly, they should be held to account so that someone else contemplating it might feel a twinge of thought that they might not get away with it.
So that the same people can't do the same thing again." True, beg y'pardon. And of course I'd prefer that we weren't governed by such folk. I seem however to be a minority of one in my opinion that the problem is systemic, and only folk that can get the backing and bankrolling of huge corporations and/or wealthy individuals will ever get elected. Self elected, self-perpetuating, self-congratulatory, self interested tools of the corporations. But that's late capitalist democracy. The best system you can buy if you can afford it. There are other forms of democracy, but they tend to get overlooked because they give more power to the electorate.
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Date: 2007-04-27 03:16 pm (UTC)I think otherwise.
I wish we could arrest our leaders. T Bleuch would be first on my list, followed by GWB, but my months (nay years) of apoplexy over this have only left me exhausted and secure in the knowledge that those people will get away with it.
However, we have to blame someone; and get angry at someone: even the folk on our own side advising restraint.
No wonder I'm cynical.
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Date: 2007-04-27 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-27 03:50 pm (UTC)True, beg y'pardon.
And of course I'd prefer that we weren't governed by such folk.
I seem however to be a minority of one in my opinion that the problem is systemic, and only folk that can get the backing and bankrolling of huge corporations and/or wealthy individuals will ever get elected.
Self elected, self-perpetuating, self-congratulatory, self interested tools of the corporations. But that's late capitalist democracy. The best system you can buy if you can afford it.
There are other forms of democracy, but they tend to get overlooked because they give more power to the electorate.