02/03/2018

How Fragile is American Democracy?
Northern Virginia Ethical Society
Sunday, February 4, 2018
at 11:00 AM
Green Hedges School...
415 Windover Avenue NW
Vienna, VA

https://www.meetup.com/Northern-Virginia-Ethical-Society/
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Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Alexander Meiklejohn
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02/04/2018


Is it possible to reach "Economy of Passion" beyond "knowledge economy" in an environment of "Democracy" government structure at local level, such as our Fairfax County government and State of Virginia government ?

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How Fragile is The American Democracy ?

https://www.meetup.com/Northern-Virginia-Ethical-Society/events/247418183/

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I have to admit something: for all of my life, I have tried to make a living following my passion. My experience in the fields of human motivation and civic engagement have shown me I’m not alone, and that there’s an emerging economy of passion. Here I reflect on my experience, and share some of the markers of this new economy.

Adam F.C. Fletcher
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All democracies are easily fractured. A buffoon and maybe a 1% moron factor among voters is apparently enough to do very serious damage.

What American democracy?

Down the tubes Wrote:
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> All democracies are easily fractured. A buffoon
> and maybe a 1% moron factor among voters is
> apparently enough to do very serious damage.

I am the buffoon and I'm going to tell you leftist motherfuckers something.

You're no longer going to "brown the country" for the sake of color. You want to import people, you're going to import people with our values, not values like pushing gays off of tall buildings, redistributing income because you believe in equal outcomes and not equal opportunity, and bringing in workers with no attachment whatsoever to this country to drive down wages. That shit will no longer stand. You don't like it, too fucking bad, snowflake.

Fuck your Hope & Change and "Fundamental Transformation". That shit is being stopped dead in it's tracks.

You want solar power or a bullet train in Kalifornia? YOU pay for it. Stay the fuck out of my wallet for all your "dreams".

Abortion to the ninth month on demand and forcing me to pay for it? No fucking way. We're coming to end that shit.

You've gone radical. And we're about to bring reality to the situation. Fuck your climate change, tax payer funded Obamacare and your "nirvana".

You got it now? Wrote:
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> I am the buffoon and I'm going to tell you leftist
> motherfuckers something.

LOL! You've already told us all anyone with any sense would actually need to know.

We are not a democracy - We are a Republic

Get your facts straight Wrote:
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> We are not a democracy - We are a Republic

Why not just completely miss the point? What a total douchebag!

Board of Elections Wrote:
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> Get your facts straight Wrote:
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> > We are not a democracy - We are a Republic
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> Why not just completely miss the point? What a
> total douchebag!

So typical. You cannot counter my statement that we live in a Republic, so you resort to childish name calling.

You have suffered an epic fail.

01/04/2018


Republicanism is a type of democracy.

but if protected by a Bill of Rights,

may be distinguished from other forms of democracy as a Bill of Rights asserts that each individual has unalienable rights that cannot be voted away by a majority of voters, unless the other type of democracies are also protected by a Bill of Rights

Wikipedia

Democracy is mentioned in the Constitution exactly zero times.

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U.S. Constitution - Article 4 Section 4

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

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AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention.


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Tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) refers to an inherent weakness of direct democracy and majority rule in which the majority of an electorate can and does place its own interests above, and at the expense of, those in the minority.

Re: How Fragile is The American Democracy ? NOVES at Vienna, VA

Posted by: Wake the fook up ()

Date: February 04, 2018 03:52PM

AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention.


Discussion: Ok, ok, it's pretty clear that the founding fathers wanted "republic form of government" first, and not "one citizen one vote" of so called modern democracy.

It's obvious that "republic form" with civil rights and constitution so dismantled by authoritarian Nazi Germany of the 30's, could happen in America, but with new set of risk factors, that could include a "long term stagnation" of America's knowledge economy, when the short term "economic success" is over emphasized, and little investments are made toward "knowledge economy infrastructure" ?

Question: Is this risk same or different than what Ben Franklin was fearful ?
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We live in a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy, RICKY!

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Rental cars +43% over last Sept
Used cars 24%
Bacon 19%
Hotels 18%
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Pork 13%
Eggs 13%
TVs 13%
Kids' shoes 12%
Furniture 11%
New cars 9%
Chicken 8%
Apples 8%
Restaurant prices: 5%
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