On 2/5/2013 1:30 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
The first *best* step is to take the money out of politics altogether.
- ferg
that would involve taking the power out of having money too.
Politics is a modern day path to power and rulership, and the great
families have a vested interest in maintaining their oligarchy by fiat.
You want some way to divorce the two? How about a rule that prevents
succession-by-birth explicitly - and that holding an office precludes
your offspring from doing the same.
now THAT would put the fox amongst the chickens!
I'm from the UK, we're used to peerage, because it's explicitly allowed
by law. The USA has managed to create the same system, entirely without
support of law, merely money and power.
Which funnily enough, is pretty much how peerage got started in the
first place, and then they just had the church slap something about it
being the will of god onto it. Fast forward yourself a couple of
centuries and hey, you've got yourself a monarchy.
America enjoyed a brief period of enjoying a return to Classical forms
of government, but appears to be rapidly returning back to the state of
Feudalism that has been the norm for humanity for most of the last two
millenia. Considering the sheer amount of time that humanity has
languished in some variety of feudalism, you might consider it the
natural state of things at this point... all systems intended to
equalize resources and social justice are inevitably gamed into a format
that comes to serve those with the will to power.
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