Reply #28: Democracies are fragile [View All]

[Donna Zen]

Ours was very wealthy and the bastards were after it for a long time. I suppose the majority of people on DU are still "awake" and struggling to save the ideals our nation was founded upon; however, what Dec. 12, 2000 reflected was a nation composed of the sleeping.

To try to save our democracy was branded as anti-patriotic. A free and responsible press might have helped to save us, but that was not to be. Now the vultures pick over the carcass...first the budget surplus, then came the defense contractors, and now they see that pile of money in Soc. Sec.

Krugman calls it the Great Unraveling. Folks over the next four years they will complete the job, and America, a pale ghost of its promise, will sleep...nothing to see here. The vast majority of the population have either no idea or no concern about the loss of a transparent system of voting.

It is not the few and the greedy, they have always been circling the national treasure; it is the apathetic and uncaring who brought our democracy down. If you are here, count yourself among those who did the right thing which in the end is the only stand to take.