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发帖数: 1 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren5 (吃喝), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国不仅不是民主国家，就在共和国家里，也算是差的共和国家
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 1 11:38:23 2020, 美东)
USA is a Republic with only 2 parties
Meanwhile most modern Democracies and even Republics have 6-8 parties and
its A felony for an elected rep to take bribes from special interests
IN the USA its NORMAL and THAT is the biggest problem the USA has. | b*********5
发帖数: 1 | 2 And now for the one of the best quotes regarding the political class, from
another Tory Anarchist who came well before Bovard:
"Politicians rarely if ever get there [into public office] by merit alone,
at least in democratic states. Sometimes, to be sure, it happens, but only
by a kind of miracle. They are chosen normally for quite different reasons,
the chief of which is simply their power to impress and enchant the
intellectually under privileged .... Will any of them venture to tell the
plain truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the situation
of the country, foreign or domestic? Will any of them refrain from promises
that he knows he can't fulfill-that no human being could fulfill? Will any
of them utter a word, however obvious, that will alarm and alienate any of
the huge pack of morons who cluster at the public trough, wallowing in the
pap that grows thinner and thinner, hoping against hope? Answer: maybe for a
few weeks at the start. ... But not after the issue is fairly joined, and
the struggle is on in earnest .... They will all promise every man, woman
and child in the country whatever he, she or it wants. They'll all be roving
the land looking for chances to make the rich poor, to remedy the
irremediable, to succor the unsuccorable, to unscramble the unscrambleable,
to dephlogisticate the undephlogisticable. They will all be curing warts
by saying words over them, and paying off the national debt with money that
no one will have to earn. When one of them demonstrates that twice two is
five, another will prove that it is six, six and a half, ten, twenty, n. In
brief, they will divest themselves from their character as sensible, candid
and truthful men, and become simply candidates for office, bent only on
collaring votes. They will all know by then, even supposing that some of
them don't know it now, that votes are collared under democracy, not by
talking sense but by talking nonsense, and they will apply themselves to the
job with a hearty yo-heave-ho. Most of them, before the uproar is over,
will actually convince themselves. The winner will be whoever promises the
most with the least probability of delivering anything."
– HL Mencken “A Mencken Chrestomathy” |
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