“Crimes”? How about “actions” instead. Citizens United was a terrible ruling that dealt a major blow to basic electoral fairness. But I still don’t see how any of what you say is a reason to put barricades in the streets and commandeer tanks to roll down Constitution Avenue.

Frankly any society with this rate of incarceration, inequality, lack of social mobility are complete bitches for not fucking shit up, let alone putting on their finest smock to appease some cunt in his palace who is seemingly fine with the rate of incarceration, inequality and lack of social mobility.

“Crimes”? How about “actions” instead. Citizens United was a terrible ruling that dealt a major blow to basic electoral fairness. But I still don’t see how any of what you say is a reason to put barricades in the streets and commandeer tanks to roll down Constitution Avenue.

When is the last time you had an election? Yeah, fuck off. We have those things every two years. And state and local elections every single year.

2011 we had a federal election and the extremely close outcome was stolen by…wait for it…..Pierre Poutine for the dick head Tories. No one seems to care.

I still don’t see how any of that supports your earlier point that government should fear it’s people.

They’re acting like their crimes have no consequences and seemingly they don’t.

I still don’t see how any of that supports your earlier point that government should fear it’s people.

Fat lazy cunts.

When is the last time you had an election? Yeah, fuck off. We have those things every two years. And state and local elections every single year.

This is something that the normal American doesn’t have the time or the inclination to do.

Fat lazy cunts.

Your notion of a government needing to fear its people in order to be responsible to their wishes also runs up against historical dictatorships who were extremely afraid of their people which only led to them being more ruthless in suppressing those same wishes. Balance is everything my maple leaf chewing, syrup bathing, vulcanized rubber puck licking friend.

Politicians should be kowtowing to us and not vice versa. A modern politician’s primary concern is re-election and the people who can afford to deliver that for them. Not surprising in this climate all gains, even the stimulus gains, are going to those who can potentially control election outcomes.

If you destroy college sports, then the 99% of NCAA athletes who have zero chance of making it in the pros will have lost. The other 1% will have no springboard for marketing because they lose the exposure that the popularity of college sports give them. So who’s looking out for the athletes again? Just curious… because there is no replacement golden goose once you kill college sports.

We have big tent parties that encompass wide ranging beliefs on both sides. Most other countries have parties with narrower platforms which naturally leads them to represent a more fragmented voting public.

Well neither of these options seem optimal. It feels like the 3rd biggest country should probably have more than 2 parties, but I understand why you’d want to have majority rule as opposed to plurality rule…I don’t like politics.

In the exact same sense that we do? Hardly any. But political parties are very different in this country than in any other. We have big tent parties that encompass wide ranging beliefs on both sides. Most other countries have parties with narrower platforms which naturally leads them to represent a more fragmented voting public.

No kidding. But that doesn’t seem to give any truth to your assertion that government should be afraid of the people it governs. That would seem a gross, Thomas Paine-like, perversion of John Locke’s Social Contract. America isn’t a Democracy, it’s a Republic. In a Republic we elect people who are supposed to devote themselves to learning about all of important issues so that they can make informed decisions on them. This is something that the normal American doesn’t have the time or the inclination to do. Your notion of a government needing to fear its people in order to be responsible to their wishes also runs up against historical dictatorships who were extremely afraid of their people which only led to them being more ruthless in suppressing those same wishes. Balance is everything my maple leaf chewing, syrup bathing, vulcanized rubber puck licking friend.

/Today’s the day

And I submit as evidence the fact that members of Congress vote for or against important pieces of legislation purely because they are afraid of a primary challenger trying to unseat them from the far left or the far right.

There are afraid of losing their station, if their constituents (weren’t retards) they would have to answer to them instead of moneyed interests for campaign war chests. The people lost a huge part of their power with Citizens United but cunts still want to talk about “respect.” Your interests are not being respected.

The government being afraid of people is certainly a good way to engender legislative and administrative efficiency..oh wait, no it’s the opposite of that. And I submit as evidence the fact that members of Congress vote for or against important pieces of legislation purely because they are afraid of a primary challenger trying to unseat them from the far left or the far right.

The government should be afraid of the people which probably won’t happen if we are being differential bitches.

Or if we don’t have our guns.

/Texas
// Remember the Alamo
/// Remember San Jacinto

It seems to me it’s nearly always athletes snubbing Dem presidents (Clinton, Obama). Pretty sure it has something to do with taxes.

I know Larry Bird didn’t visit Reagan in the 80′s and MJ did the same with Bush. And I don’t think James Harrison visited Bush after his first SuperBowl either, he just was a bigger star after the 2nd one.