The Bush Administration is conducting a policy of Imperial Expansion. The NeoCons who have taken over the Republican Party beleive that there can be an "American Empire" in the 21st Century.
They have found in John McCain a person who will conduct this policy should he be elected President.
To believe this notion one must pass to threshold of reason. First, one has to believe that it is possible to have an empire in the 21st Century. There is a lot of experiments going on with this idea. China is trying to see if there can be a true "peoples" capitalism where power is centralized in Government. Russia is experimenting with Economic Bloc building that resembles the old Communist Bloc but with money and resources as the power rather than arms - though arms are never far away.
The US is falling back into the Military-Industrial mode similar to 1930's Germany, with thte intent on controling militarily the worlds supply of oil and gas.
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Civics Primer
I am amazed by how little people in the United States understand how Governemnt works when it comes to the three Branches of Governemnt. A democracy can not function with a ill-informed population.
That is what we have. In 2006 a Zogby poll was taken and "sixty-one percent of people could not name any justices"(1) of the Supreme Court. Also in another Zogby Poll "only 42%(of US respondants) could name the 3 branches of the United States government: executive, legislative and judicial." After reading all the posts on the FISA dust up, it is not hard to believe.
But just naming the three branches of Governemnt is not really enough though. One really needs to understand what the roles of each branch are and how they work together, even in opposition, to make government work.
First, the Constitution sets up the rules for how Government is constituted. It says who gets to do what. To get the votes of enough states to ratify the Constitution, a set of ammendments, known as the Bill of Rights, was attached because people in 1789 feared abuse of Gevernemnt.
(1)http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2006/08/the_polls_name_.html
That is what we have. In 2006 a Zogby poll was taken and "sixty-one percent of people could not name any justices"(1) of the Supreme Court. Also in another Zogby Poll "only 42%(of US respondants) could name the 3 branches of the United States government: executive, legislative and judicial." After reading all the posts on the FISA dust up, it is not hard to believe.
But just naming the three branches of Governemnt is not really enough though. One really needs to understand what the roles of each branch are and how they work together, even in opposition, to make government work.
First, the Constitution sets up the rules for how Government is constituted. It says who gets to do what. To get the votes of enough states to ratify the Constitution, a set of ammendments, known as the Bill of Rights, was attached because people in 1789 feared abuse of Gevernemnt.
(1)http://www.elsblog.org/the_empirical_legal_studi/2006/08/the_polls_name_.html
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