The Road To Oligarchy...

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Liberty -vs- Tyranny

Some further thoughts on the very real possibility of the USA becoming an oligarchy. I found these informative videos on You Tube and thought them very instructional.

The videos illustrate the various concepts of government, and the dangers to freedom and liberty a full blown oligarchy presents the people. Indeed these dangers are ever present in our republic and must be resisted and fought against continually if we are to preserve our individual rights and liberties as well as maintaining a civil society.

It has been said nothing on earth is perfect, and that is a true statement. However, history has shown our democratic republic is arguably as close to a perfect form of government as has ever existed.

The question we face today, and must answer for the future is; do we still have the intellegence and will to preserve it?







Again, what say you?

Comments

  1. Ema NymtonSat Jul 14, 10:32:00 AM EDT

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    What do _YOU_ think you mean when you say 'oligarchy'?

    USA's government of the people, by the people, and for the people makes us all a people's oligarchy.

    Ema Nymton
    ~@:o?
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    1. Les CarpenterSat Jul 14, 10:52:00 AM EDT

      Dear Ema, I'll say this as politely as I now how... You're Nuts.

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  2. AnonymousSat Jul 14, 03:23:00 PM EDT

    We have survived oligarchies before, and will again.
    George Washington and FDR come to mind, if you are talking the dictionary definition of oligarchy.

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    1. Les CarpenterSat Jul 14, 04:19:00 PM EDT

      You do have a grasp of the nuts and bolts.

      "This America that Washington was to rule was no simple Republic content to manage its affairs within the bounds of the thirteen states. Even in it’s origins in the days of the Founding Fathers, there was the notion that America, the United States, was an empire. Not that they thought of empire in the sense of the commercial British Empire from which they had struggled to be free. They had more the sense of Rome, the great European example of the continental land empire. Rome too, expanded from a tiny state to embrace a continent. That the United States was expansionist from inception is not an idea of the early twentieth century it is there – in the draft Articles of Confederation of 1776. There was never the need for Monroe’s doctrine. Right at the beginning there had been discussion on the placing of the western boundaries of the states. This was dismissed, and the boundaries were simply left as open. Washington was to refer to the States as a “nascent empire” or an “infant empire”. Jefferson told Madison he was “persuaded that no constitution was ever before as well calculated as ours for extending empire and self-government”. Hamilton also referred to the United States as “the most interesting empire in the world”. Roman in mindset, how much was the idea of her first officers self consciously to resemble Consuls? Consuls were, wherever possible, drawn from the oligarchy.

      Consuls who, in their turn, might become emperors."

      Link - http://theoligarchkings.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/the-persistence-of-oligarchy-washington-king-consul-and-president/

      Whether wrongful interpretation or reality it certainly warrants Americans to figure out the present by understanding the past.

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  3. Will "take no prisoners" HartSat Jul 14, 04:01:00 PM EDT

    As long as we have people like Jeffrey Immelt and Timothy Geithner bending the President's ear, anything indeed is possible.

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