Quote: (03-03-2013 11:20 PM)TheCaptainPower Wrote:
I see the US as becoming more quasi-socialist more than anything. When more people are on the "dole", then actually work, isn't that socialism?
All I know is that when it takes 6 years to negotiate something obvious like moving social security from age 62 to 65, we have a problem.
I like what Ovid said, nothing will ever beat a government with a competent King. But when you get a bad King, all hell breaks loose. Aka Hitler, Mussolini, ...
Great thread topic. The thing is I think you are right in theory. I'm absolutely fed up with this gridlock as well which is par for the course in a two party government. However, how do we define who is a competent autocrat? Yours idea? Mine? The billionaire, the poor workers? It sounds wonderful to have fascism when you happen to agree with that single party. How would you feel if you despised them? You'd feel like the left under Pinochet, or the right under Chavez.
Democracy can suck shit with gridlock and incompetence but it does limit the downside. Whereas fascism has boundless potential for corruption. Not to even mention all the evil like political prisons and silence of dissent that go with these type of governments. Not sure if a benign fascism is even possible.