There are "Some" who no longer believe our System of Govt. can Function...

[KoKo]

torn apart by Warring Parties. Are YOU one of them? :shrug:

[murray hill farm]

1. I think...

tht it is our economic system that no longer functions..that has run its course..become too large and powerful..so that it has become primary...the economic system rules...our govt system is secondary..and therin is the problem

[Daphne08]

2. I think somebody should get a handle on it!

Reminds me of the late '60s. Yes, I was already an an adult then. :(

[catmother]

5. so was i. don't feel bad.

[leftofthedial]

3. nope

it has been hijacked, not by warring parties, but by wealth that stages the functions of "government" like they might orchestrate a professional wrestling network.

[KoKo]

8. True...Run Amok Capitalism where the "leashes" were cut by Reagan

and the "Bulls are running free" trampling everything in their way. Capitalism...maybe like Judith Miller...where a "leash" from an Editor might have saved thousands of lives and thousands more of broken bodies.

Yet, some great minds from Harvard Business School, Yale, Wharton, Duke, etc. have pushed forward this great theory of "unbridled, unleashed Capitalism."

They must know something? They are doing very well.

[The2ndWheel]

4. Yes

But I don't think civilization works, so.

[KoKo]

6. For "Some" of us who've watched all this...

Maybe a "New Way" has to be worked on...building in the Best and discarding the Worst? :shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

7. The Republic died years ago!

We now have an empire with a mostly rubber stamp Senate. It is only a matter of time before our emperor decides to do away with those Senators that are giving him grief.

Those that have been following HBO's Rome know full well of what I speak of, Bush being in the role of Caesar.

[KoKo]

10. Disney/Post WWII Sold all of us a "Bill of Goods" where the payment

coming due was the crap we live with today....:-(

[kineneb]

16. ooo- time to rent "I Claudius" again... n/t

[radio4progressives]

9. Nope!

We will devolve into our own civl war if don't expose and correct our voting/election systems -- however.

and until that happens - well, never mine.

[KoKo]

11. But....the Baker/Carter Commission was going to address this...No?

:shrug:

[many a good man]

12. We need a revolution once every generation

Maybe one of these times we'll get it right. We are so far behind the rest of the civilized world....

[SHRED]

13. The Corporate takeover of America...

is almost complete.

[punpirate]

14. ^laughing v

This has to be a new Republican meme. :)

It was, as I recall, Grover Norquist who said, "bipartisanship is the equivalent of date rape." And he didn't mean that the Republicans were the ones getting raped.

It's time to kick the rapist in the nuts and scream bloody murder for the police.

[unkachuck]

15. yep....

....has the Civil War ever ended? We went from a Hot War in the 1860's to a Cold War ever since, IMO....

....the Northern free-labor states won but ever since the assasination of John Kennedy the Southern slave-labor states have been on the rise....to the point today that it is suggested that a Northerner can't be elected President anymore in the United States....

....I know there are many good progressives and liberals who live in the South and I don't wish to insult them....but as a Northerner, I'm sick and tired of the 'slave-states' telling me what to do and when to do it....