The Trucker wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2008 09:37:49 -0700, Day Brown wrote:
>
>> The Trucker wrote:
>>>> But the leaders there won't let it happen because of their greed for
>>>> money. Nice idea, but it discounts basic human nature.
>>> It seems to me that this greed thing is a shared trait among all
persons
>>> in power. That is why a "republican form of government" is best.
>> Machiavelli said that republics _always_ get corrupted by the rich. He
>> therefore admire monarchies, which were like a family business. The
>> monarch took a longer view than the republic because he wanted to hand
>> the family business down later to his heirs.
>
> Monarchy was quashed by the United States Constitution because the
people
> simply would not accept it. Machiavelli may have been absolutely
correct
> but if you actually look at the Constitution you will find how the
people
> of that time intended to prevent this "corruption by the rich". Please
> assume a House of Representatives in which each thirty thousand people
had
> a representative. That would be ten thousand independent votes on every
> piece of legislation. It would, according to most people, be a populist
> mob. By then we have this other coequal branch of the legislature
called
> the Senate that protects the rich from assault by the mob. We also have
a
> Supreme Court that will prevent any sort of mob rule by virtue of the
> Constitutional restraints on mob rule. I maintain that the rich have
> corrupted the government because of the failure to properly express and
> ratify the very first amendment to the Constitution. That amendment
would
> have created a House of 6000 members based on the current population or
a
> House of 1600 depending upon interpretation of the original House
version
> of the amendment. The republic has been corrupted by the rich because
we
> failed to include a constitutional provision insisting on an increase in
> member****p of the House as population grew. The people have lost any
real
> representation in the government because of this.
Mach also noted that the monarch of an established line realizes the
threat posed by members of the aristocracy who may, and many have,
replace him, and that they therefore curry favor with the m*****. The
balance of powers. And as you imply, and Mach plainly said, the rich
always corrupt republics.
Nobody talks about it, but one of the things Caesar did was seize the
assets of the rich for the benefit of the m*****. His successor took
particular pains to appear to live modestly. Course, that dont last.
But the problem is somewhat revealed by what we now know about DNA;
among other things- that intelligence is handed down more on the mtDNA.
The problem the alpha male leaders had was selecting obedient airheads
to bear their sons cause smart *****es were too challenging.
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