Maggie's Farm

Have the Democrats given up on democracy?

The word democracy does not appear in our founding documents, either the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution or so my Political Science training reminds me.

But that same training, in a line many of you heard for the first time in the movie, "The Silence of the Lambs" is as germane as the opening question here. Perhaps more so.

It comes from the Roam Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

"The Emperor counsels simplicity. First Principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal nature?"

My insight tells me that political parties in themselves are centers of power. There constitutions are to win and hold power and that to do so they must say and often do the disingenuous. That what they seek is for the common good and the betterment of mankind. Modern communications have given lie to that.
Their causal nature is now like a black hole, a dying star. Once that same star was a beacon in the heavens but in it's decay it's gravitational pull weakens and finally destroys all around it. Thus our government since FDR has grown into the black hole, devouring our Bill of Rights and Constitution and thus individual freedoms for the good of the state. That once well defined state is now even under attack as an entity in itself as transnational statehood is planned,"for the good of the people".

""The Emperor counsels simplicity." Aristole would have has that simplicity in an enlightened philospher king, one who made no wrong decisions for his subjects. But Artistotle realized that was not possible for mankind.

The Emperors simplicity of today is the rule by an Executive and his Bureaucracy by "Executive finding" that is best for "the people"

Have the Democrats given up on democracy or has the system's once gleaming lustre for mankind begun a descent into a black hole?

"The Emperor counsels simplicity. First Principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal nature?"