Comments on: The American People Aren’t Against This Congress; They Are Against Any Congress http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html/comment-page-1#comment-16351 Michael Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html#comment-16351 <p>"We would rather our government be in the hands of experts, or people who are able to ignore politics and get things done."<br /> <br /> In short, what we really want is a benign dictatorship?</p> “We would rather our government be in the hands of experts, or people who are able to ignore politics and get things done.”

In short, what we really want is a benign dictatorship?

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html/comment-page-1#comment-16352 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html#comment-16352 <p>Yes, I think so.<br /> <br /> From an article [1] highlighted on a previous post [2]:<br /> <br /> "But the striking finding to us was that, even setting aside [particular scandals and controversies], there was an undercurrent of intense disgust with intrinsic elements of democratic government, particularly democratic government in a technologically complex society of 270 million people, most of whom expect the government to do many things.<br /> <br /> Although people, at least as represented by the individuals who participated in our survey and in our focus group, are effusive in praise for the concept of democracy as well as for the basic construction structure of the United States government, they recoil from what democracy looks like when seen in action and sometimes in inaction.. People love the rules of the game, but hate the game itself. Such a hatred of democratic procedures is obviously unhealthy and apparently springs from a patently unrealistic set of"<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1049-0965%28199603%2929%3A1%3C57%3ACINETB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1049-0965%28199603%2929%3A1%3C57%3ACINETB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U</a><br /> [2] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/11/04/teaching-barbarism.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/11/04/teaching-barbarism.html</a></p> Yes, I think so.

From an article [1] highlighted on a previous post [2]:

“But the striking finding to us was that, even setting aside [particular scandals and controversies], there was an undercurrent of intense disgust with intrinsic elements of democratic government, particularly democratic government in a technologically complex society of 270 million people, most of whom expect the government to do many things.

Although people, at least as represented by the individuals who participated in our survey and in our focus group, are effusive in praise for the concept of democracy as well as for the basic construction structure of the United States government, they recoil from what democracy looks like when seen in action and sometimes in inaction.. People love the rules of the game, but hate the game itself. Such a hatred of democratic procedures is obviously unhealthy and apparently springs from a patently unrealistic set of”

[1] http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1049-0965%28199603%2929%3A1%3C57%3ACINETB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2005/11/04/teaching-barbarism.html

]]> By: Michael http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html/comment-page-1#comment-16353 Michael Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html#comment-16353 <p>I wonder. . . If HBO's next series was on Athens, with suitable amounts of sex and violence mixed with the history of their democracy, do you think people would start to get it?<br /> <br /> *need more caffeine. . .!*</p> I wonder. . . If HBO's next series was on Athens, with suitable amounts of sex and violence mixed with the history of their democracy, do you think people would start to get it?

*need more caffeine. . .!*

]]> By: Michael Zappe http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html/comment-page-1#comment-16354 Michael Zappe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/04/10/the-american-people-arent-against-this-congress-they-are-against-any-congress.html#comment-16354 <p>Unfortunately the idea that the government should be run by experts is very well summed up in the German word Führerprinzip.<br /> <br /> If the pictures of what happened there don't make people get it, I doubt HBO could.</p> Unfortunately the idea that the government should be run by experts is very well summed up in the German word Führerprinzip.

If the pictures of what happened there don't make people get it, I doubt HBO could.

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