🚀 go-pugleaf

Rob Aldrich wrote:
> 
> Original Poster said:
> 
> Nixon's transgressions look like a Sunday picnic compared to clown
> Clinton's.  At least he did the honorable thing...he resigned.  But
> then, whoever said Clinton was honorable?
> 
> Replier responded:
> 
> No Clinton fan I, but this is just rhetorical silliness. Nixon's
> so-called "transgressions" were a systematic attempt to subvert the
> civil liberties of his opponents and reversing portions of the
> constitution. Nearly every administration since then has had its share
> of boneheads, losers, and felons, but none of them acted with the
> specific intent of dismantling the basic principles of American
> democracy.
> 
> I say:
> 
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!  I have been reading
> this thread apparently written by people who have no idea why the
> founding fathers established the electoral college (and probably never
> did...and probably have no idea why the founders did anything) with the
> steeled will not to enter the fray, but now someone wants to stop the
> dismantling of the "American democracy?"  IS OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM REALLY
> THIS BAD?
> 
> THERE IS NO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY!! Please read Article IV,
> Section 4 of the U.S. Constituiton and the pages referenced in the
> Federalist Papers index under "democracy" particularly those pages which
> "distinguish" a democracy from the American government, and thoses
> stating the "troubles of" a democracy.  Anyone with a second grade
> education can learn in five minutes that the founders abhored
> democracies as the evil form of government it is.
> 
> Lets see, Democracy...if 50.1 percent of the people vote that African-
> Americans can't live in the US we can have the military deport them.
> 50.1% can outlaw gays, 50.1% can outlaw condoms, 50.1% can outlaw a
> woman's right to vote, 50.1 can outlaw anything.  Now there's a system
> to be fighting for, huh?  To the extent that a democracy has overthrown
> our government it deserves to be "dismantled."
> 
> RobInteresting comments, Rob.  I'd like to know more.  Can you lead me to a 
decent site on the web where there are articles on this issue.  And are 
the Federalist Papers found up here someplace?  I'd love to find an 
indexed set where I can read in them what they have to say about 
particular subjects.
Thx