Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 03/10/2024 03:20, rbowman wrote:

Hey, what the hell, Hillary figures I'm a deplorable and I'm sure Harris

 
(Disgusting woman. (Hilary). Harris just looks weak and incompetent. But
she is managing to make The Donald look senile and demented. I am sure
she will get elected as the lesser of two evils, but the Republicans
need to put someone rational and more intelligent up for next time)

Jeff Duncan - “Unlike Trump, I’ve belonged to the GOP my entire life. This
November, I am voting for a decent person I disagree with on policy over a
criminal defendant without a moral compass,” Duncan wrote in an op-ed
published Monday in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”

I think he said something about how the current Republican Party needs to
be restructured, and when you restructure you start by getting rid of the
CEO, but I couldn’t find the quote.

More and more non-crazy Republicans are coming out. Maybe we’ll get a good
party out of this after all.

 
The problem is ancient
 
'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'
 
[who will guard the guards, themselves?]
 
Once you have a hierarchy, those below are governed by those above, but
who governs the apex?
 
Ultimately you have to break the law and commit revolution or treason to
get rid of a ruler you don't like
 
Unless you have a democracy.
 
Then you just keep voting the bastards out till one comes along that
does a half decent job, and give then a second term.
 
The whole history of democracy comes from Great Britain, where kings
depended on their lords for support, and bad kings came to sticky ends
and wars were fought to put a new king on the throne. But the rise of
the affluent middle classes of merchants and to an extent artisans, who
had serious amounts on money, ended up in a war that really no one won -
the English civil war. Parliament won on paper, killed the king and put
a 'lord protector' in place  but the damage to the merchant class was
massive and people soon got tired of the dreary 'wokeness' of a
puritanical theocracy.
 
And once Cromwell died, the old parliamentarians basically seized back
power and formed a new government and invited the king to return.
 
The merchants were happy with this. They now had a voice in parliament.
For sure women and plebs didn't have a vote, but what did they know
about running a country anyway?
 
 
 

--
Pete