 Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people. |
| It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights. |
| It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. |
| It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. |
| Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends. |
| As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board. |
| Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. |
| The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. |
| Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush. |
| With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral. |
| If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief. |
| There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation. |
| People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. |
| How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President? |
| The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. |
| It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it. |
| Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. |
| There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency. |
| This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. |
| If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. |
