Democracy is broken but a stupid "Klan Can" dance won't fix it

response to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oqHNiXazc

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[carnypimp]

Wow this guy makes since! The two main problems is RELIGION & MONEY very true!

[Chrisnoscrub047]

w/o govt people will just be blowing up mountains with nuclear bombs!!!

[romeoneverdies]

actualy i am in telco & its FULL of monopoly full of regulations i do have a company registtered & his candle analogy is accurate more than 80% of company are small biz not big biz they become that way when somone imposes regulations & stuff

[AlmightyAtheismo]

Confederal Socialist's response to you is typical of Anarcho-Capitalists and Psycho-Libertarians.

When they are confronted with an alternative view, rather than welcome an opportunity to clarify and argue their position, they just regress to pissyness and polemics.

If you have to throw a tantrum to defend your position, it probably isn't very sound.

[zsylvana]

Black OP 6.) In the democratic society of publics it was assumed that among the individuals who composed it there was a natural and peaceful harmony of interests. But this essentially conservative doctrine gave way to the Utilitarian doctrine that such a harmony of interests had first to be created by reform before it could work, and later to the Marxian doctrine of class struggle, which surely was then, and certainly is now, closer to reality than any assumed harmony of interests.

[zsylvana]

BlackOp 5) This transformation, in fact, is one of the keys to the social and psychological meaning of modern life in America.

I. In the democratic society of publics it was assumed, with John Locke, that the individual conscience was the ultimate seat of judgment and hence the final court of appeal. But this principle was challenged-as E. H. Carr has put it-when Rousseau 'for the first time thought in terms of the sovereignty of the whole people,and faced the issue of mass democracy.

[zsylvana]

BlackOP 4) The idea of the community of publics is not a description of fact, but an assertion of an ideal, an assertion of a legitimation masquerading-as legitimations are now apt to do-as fact. now the public of public opinion is recognized by all those who have considered it carefully as something less than it once was.

These doubts are asserted positively in the statement that the classic community of publics is being transformed into a society of masses.

[zsylvana]

BlackOp 3) The possibilities of answering back, of organizing autonomous organs of public opinion, of realizing opinion in action, are held to be established by democratic institutions. The opinion that results from public discussion is understood to be a resolution that is then carried out by public action; it is, in one version, the 'general will' of the people, which the legislative organ enacts into law, thus lending to it legal force.

[zsylvana]

BlackOp 2) All official decisions, as well as private decisions of consequence, are justified as in the public's welfare; all formal proclamations are in its name.

Let us therefore consider the classic public of democratic theory in the generous spirit in which Rousseau once cried, 'Opinion, Queen of the World, is not subject to the power of kings; they are themselves its first slaves.'

The most important feature of the public of opinion, is the free ebb and flow of discussion.

[zsylvana]

BlackOp.1) The standard image of power and decision, no force is held to be as important as The Great American Public. More than merely another check and balance, this public is thought to be the seat of all legitimate power. In official life as in popular folklore, it is held to be the very balance wheel of democratic power. In the end, all liberal theorists rest their notions of the power system upon the political role of this public;