"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
The Perils of Democratic Capitalism
Submitted by Robert Fredericks on Sun, 2010-01-10 03:00
"It is as if the word democracy has magical powers like the relics of a dead saint–merely being near it will convey powers to those in proximity."
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The problem is that law and the legal "profession" has realized that controlling "democratic excesses" by enforcing the "rule of law" (All persons are to be treated EQUALLY in terms of rights and responsibilities by law) is unprofitable, since it maintains balance of power between individuals which has the effect of keeping the peace, reducing conflict and legal fees. Far better to enforce (All persons are NOT to be treated EQUALLY in terms of rights and responsibilities by law using false pretext X).
The Nazis were a "democratic excess" who legally deemed Jews and others "subhuman". It was a very expensive survival hit to civilization to deal with them, but they were brought down by honest "rule of law", now rationalized away:
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/ross/ross3.html
Since the balance of power between prey (we, the people) and predators (system connected perps) has been upset by absence of honest law, Pandoras box of "war of all, against all" has been re-opened by "rule of corrupt, parochial man", destroyer of civilizations, for all of history. The grim reaper of "Mathematics Of Rule" proves where this folly leads:
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/ross/ross1.html