"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
How Electoral Democracies End: California Literally Becoming One-Party State
A story from the LA Times about how there are no Repubs on the CA state-wide ballot this year and how there may not ever be again. Two Dems running against each other is as close to opposition as it gets now. Somebody go find Francis Fukuyama and tell him that this is how history ends, in a democracy. Eventually it becomes one man, one vote, one time. Over.
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So democracy is about to die. What matters is what follows.
Alexander Tytler: 'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.' In that part of California, that moment has arrived.
It will be followed either by a dictatorship, or by a free society. STReaders have the responsibility of determining which. The means for achieving the latter is available here.