Should we form a government?

[salinen]

Because this country has no government. Corporations, long ago, bought the government. They substituted the jobs of congressmen and senators to polished corporate figurines. Would it be correct to call this form of non-representation anarchy?

Maybe the most obvious example of non-representation was the collapse of the re importation of drugs bill. We are not allowed to bring down the cost of sickness.

Can I despise America yet?

[leveymg]

1. Let's start with a Party. I'll bring the beer.

But, seriously. Let's just declare we're the Progressive Democratic Party, and caucus with the other Dems. You know, the ones with the corporations sharing their pants. If they won't listen and deal with is, we'll primary every single one of them and work to replace them. Simple as that.

[elocs]

2. You mean a "we the people" kind of government?

Fortunately, at age 57, I most likely will not live to see the fall of America but I will most likely live through it's definite decline.

Would Canada ever take political refugees from the U.S.? It would be nice to have a dream. I once had a dream of what a Democratic President with large majorities in both the House and Senate could accomplish, but no more.

[salinen]

3. Really

With both houses and the executive. Boy were we tricked.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

[Odin2005]

5. Yes!

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

[cali]

6. lol. you sound just like the nutbags that think their "citizen grand juries"

are the real deal. Have fun playing in your idiotic little sandbox.

[salinen]

8. thanks

I have no idea why I'm being called a nutbag or an idiot. I think you need help. To respond the way
you just did, without explanation, is cruel without reason. Almost republican.

[lyonspotter]

7. Technically, what you are describing is corporatism...

...which is also known as fascism. We are certainly not in anarchy...but the will of the people is continually ignored...for the past 10 years or so.

Not sure what the solution is...but what we have is broken, for 99% of us.