Reply #3: If you know your history [View All]

[alvarezadams]

you'd know that the people's voice has been heard intermittantly and with lots and lots of interference from the begining.

I fear that the "noble experiment" was an ignoble effort to assuage traditional hopes with novel rhetoric. At almost every moment in American (or any other democratic regime's) history, vested interests have seen fit to manipulate the electorate in order to achieve their perennial ends.

From Mytilene to Sumter, from wealthy dealers in contraband to wealthier dealers in weaponry - the right has laughed its head off at democracy. The few decades where people had a voice and exercized their power have always been followed by cynical manipulation and counterreformation.

Revisionism? Even in Spain - with a civil war that is still within living memory, the catholic-supported right has seen fit to rewrite history and deny the massacre at Badajoz. A massacre witnessed by the international press and even recognized by the nationalist forces at the time - it's all documented - and a catholic-funded historical magazine is going revisionist.

:puke:

It's bad enough that most of American political rhetoric is 6th grade drivel designed to appeal to base emotion, regardless of fact. What really gets my gall is that they take us ALL as fools.