You're right about the present system, but it could be changed.

Cease to enforce usurious contracts, and no one will buy interest-bearing bonds.

Or enforce the original Westminster principle of "no parliament may bind its successors" and then every election would be a sovereign default

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

They will quickly find a way around that.

Voters play the victim until free stuff arrives.

We have laws and Constitutions to impede that.

Without those, there is only force.

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

Constitutions are easily inverted with amendments.

The voters periodically go insane and they always want a jubilee.

Periodic insanity is better than continuous; just as Constitutional democracy is better than Absolutism.

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

I do not agree at all. Democracy is steady decline.

"The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

- Thomas Jefferson, letter dated November 13, 1787, to William Stephens Smith

@a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69 @freepatriot

Liberty, freedom, etc are to me a means to an end.

They are not ends in themselves.

The problem with the voters is (a) cowardice in peer pressure and (b) lacking the wiring to understand things.

You cannot raise IQ.

IQs of 130+ are required to understand most issues.

Less than 2 years later, the Articles of Confederation were replaced with the corporate oligarchy serving American Constitution and the rebellion was effectively over (as we have seen play out ever since).

@monarchist @freepatriot Actually the people have voted against free spending many times but have been frustrated by the government almost every time