DU: The Madness of King George

One of my favorite features (of which there are many) of DU are the wonderful articles and essays on the opening or "splash page." Today's lead feature is no exception. ETREMELY WELL DONE and WELL WORTH READING.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/07/30_mad.html

The Kingness of Mad George

July 30, 2003
By B. Rehak

The Founding Fathers wanted this democracy to last forever because they understood that mere empires come and go.

To that end, they established an intricate system of historic checks and balances to make sure the sort of tyranny they'd just fought to defeat never rose up again. They gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to guarantee our freedoms.

Americans would never have a king, but instead a popularly elected President, and they'd always be free to openly express their opinions, especially about the government and its policies. The people would be the master of their own rulers. It was a unique experiment in liberty which evolved and endured for more than two centuries, until one day in November 2000.

The Founding Fathers never figured on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush, and his court-appointed "Government of the neo-cons, by the neo-cons, and for the neo-cons." A self-righteous minority of ruthless profiteering ideological extremists was never supposed to dominate all three independent branches of the American Democracy. It's in your old high school civics book. Look it up.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/07/30_mad.html

Not correcting just to be correcting, but 'cause the title's so GREAT

great article

Excuse my vanity,

but you can read it here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/07/05_madness.html

The Madness comes from the Pubs Pysops jargonesque approach which has worked quite well. They have garnered about 20% of the general population much better than the Jehovah Witnesses which got about 2.01 percent of the minds out there.

But the comparison is clear, they both need sheep who are easily distracted with lies, etc.