tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post2527982719606826071..comments2024-03-26T17:30:22.600-08:00Comments on Way Up North: What Is A Constitutional Republic, and Why Does It Matter?Rev. Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04588179227576383679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post-89469212683577679272013-03-15T06:52:46.087-08:002013-03-15T06:52:46.087-08:00All of this negativity from both the statest and t...All of this negativity from both the statest and the indivualists...<br />Here's a Hurricane of fresh air from the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast<br /><br />http://lybio.net/tag/benjamin-carson-national-prayer-breakfast-transcription/<br /><br />You're Welcome<br />Rich in NCOpinionated Grump (Rich in NC)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05260811958299261825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post-57229405695185591322013-03-14T14:46:53.573-08:002013-03-14T14:46:53.573-08:00Understood & agreed, Cathy. It's sad.Understood & agreed, Cathy. It's sad.Rev. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588179227576383679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post-74027884686941688992013-03-14T14:44:16.763-08:002013-03-14T14:44:16.763-08:00The comments, above - are insightful and troubling...The comments, above - are insightful and troubling. I try to remain hopeful about the future and practice gratitude for all that has been good in my life . . . but the fact that I will probably not live long enough to see this nation safely righted and back on its original course . . . it's painful . . .Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00548755592157386484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post-87467252353337355752013-03-14T07:38:52.457-08:002013-03-14T07:38:52.457-08:00PH, to paraphrase an Isaac Asimov quote, it admits...PH, to paraphrase an Isaac Asimov quote, it admits of no easy answer. Any change, now at this point, will be painful ... or ugly. Probably both.<br /><br />PP, I recently read an article which arrived at the same conclusion; their "possible solution" was breaking the country down into "semi-autonomous regions" with legislatures overseeing smaller populations. It would arguably be more responsive to the citizens, with a better legislator-to-citizen ratio. <br /><br />But I agree with your final paragraph. It's not what I want, but I fear it's inevitable.Rev. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588179227576383679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post-78969010532656663202013-03-14T07:25:33.815-08:002013-03-14T07:25:33.815-08:00One of the keys in your post was the bottom up ana...One of the keys in your post was the bottom up analogy. While there are many academic differences that one at least was pinned as being the more important one by my main professor I studied under in college. <br /><br />His emphasis was French political systems so I got all kinds of assignments on various French government experiments. <br /><br />Anyway the main reason we have moved so far away from a Republic is principally size especially in the House. We went from basically 1 Rep per approx 200K to 300K people to one Rep for over a million. This change really hurts minority political regions. Taxation is the second biggest factor as it operates as top to bottom and gives monetary control to the top.<br /><br />As to what we are going to do about it? Eventually there will be another war over it I believe. But the type of control we are seeing is only possible with massive amounts of cheap energy so as energy declines so may the top to bottom control mechanism.<br />PioneerPreppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09269878017447335944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860897900615196454.post-72722479054014598862013-03-14T07:24:58.873-08:002013-03-14T07:24:58.873-08:00Been thinking about this for some time now. Decis...Been thinking about this for some time now. Decision right now is that whenever possible I will simply not obey unjust laws. But those I can simply sidestep are few and far between. And I don't know how to remove the problems (and I consider politicians like John McCain to be virtually as much of a problem as Obama is). I'm just one vote. ProudHillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14305205710265854978noreply@blogger.com