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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (3293)	12/22/2016 10:38:51 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 357737

To me, the really interesting thing in the years I have left in my life (56 now) will be to see how a system like ours, where people can be manipulated to believe nonsense, and then vote accordingly, can compete against a system run by a small fraction of "elites" like The Party in China does. One can make all sorts of arguments for why one system should implode and the other not, but the proof will be in the pudding so to speak. The competition is not between Reps and Dems in the USA, it is between democracy in the era of Faux News, and a the Chinese model of government. TWT who wins.

To: i-node who wrote (3293)	12/23/2016 7:07:48 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 357737

the Bill of Rights is precious and has to be taken more literally (unfortunately, the courts have eaten away at it for decades). Interesting. It has always seemed to me that the courts have provided the best protection for the Bill of Rights while the legislatures, catering to the majority, have been indifferent to the rights of others and the constitution, itself. Surveys have indicated that most people don't care about basic rights. They just want done what they want done and they want it done now. What have the courts eaten?