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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (857372)	5/15/2015 4:36:17 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Recommended By THE WATSONYOUTH Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

You think we are not on the road to becoming a fascist regime? In modern times the power of government has been expanded in virtually every area not just recently but over time. Once expanded it never recedes as history demonstrates. We don’t have institutional mechanisms in place to regulate the way power is exercised. Both parties exploit the system of graft empowerment to corrupt the political process and outcomes. There is no stopping praetorian bands from dominating government, for their own benefit and purposes and both the left and right exploit that anytime they get some leverage. It need not be extremists from one side or the other. In fact they seem to be working in naïve collusion on this course of events. Madison warned that the chain of power becomes dangerous when privileged financial aristocracy, led and encouraged by an officer of the executive department acquires dominant influence over Congress acting under an interpretation of the Constitution virtually abolishing restraints on its authority. As Madison described the matter to Jefferson, “The stock-jobbers will become the praetorian band of the Government, at once its tool and its tyrant; bribed by its largesses, and overawing it by clamors and combinations.” https://books.google.com/books?id=hCAjgs4mmQ4C&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=Pritorian+bands+Madison&source=bl&ots=ec1uMc5Nmu&sig=yZrS-0j6VuzHMqhLPNcFOOYI0Jo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nlNWVd0thZrIBJCggCA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Pritorian%20bands%20Madison&f=false Page322