Kakistocrats

by: Foiled Goil

We Americans must know by now that the Republican Party today is not only a Party of few ideas, but also a Party of few words. Socialism, terrorism, voodoo economics, and tax cuts are a few words we hear over and over again in their limited political lingo. Tax cuts are a Republican's idea of a frugal government, frugal only for them. The only spending a Republican is against is spending money on the American people. What we should cut out of US government are the salaries, unlimited benefits, and perks for those who think they represent main street America, or want us to think that they do.

Why should we Americans expect multimillionaires to have any idea of what most Americans are facing today? They can't, and what's worse, many don't care. If they cared, we wouldn't be in this financial mess we find ourselves in today, and we wouldn't be owned by China. If we Americans thought their (GOP) idea for a budget was a big laugh, we should hold our sides in, whenever we hear the word "socialism," coming from any member of the Bush GOP. [snip]

This last week we saw the firing of the CEO of General Motors. What we haven't seen is the firing of the officers of Wall Street and AIG. They all deserve to be fired. Just as those Republicans and Democrats who spent years supporting the criminal and treasonous actions by the Bush/Cheney/Rove administration should also be held accountable.

Aside from the type of socialism that these Republicans love to spew about, what we really have today are the billions of profit and perks held onto by the elite in this country, while the masses, the citizens of the US, are stuck with the debt they are responsible for. That's not socialism, but there is a name for it . . .

In a book called "Schott's Original Miscellany" by Ben Schott (2003), out of a possible 64 systems of government, he lists 23 of them, and one of those systems of government is a system ruled by the wealthy. It is called a "plutocracy."

I used to think that was what was wrong with US government, because, as of today, we still do not have US law in US government, instead, we have those who are responsible for the highest debt ever in US history, along with the deaths and destruction of millions of lives, all of them millionaires, with the best benefits this country can offer. Yet, this same Republican Party has spent the last 30 years in government, deregulating and privatizing our corporations and our government to the point that we Americans can be held hostage by our jobs and the cost of living. [snip]

I was wrong thinking that we had a plutocracy system of government, when there is another far worse system of government that Schott lists "as the worst possible," called a "kakistocracy." Thinking back over the last eight years of the Bush regin of terror, this system will look and feel very familiar to many Americans.

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies):

Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

This system fits what we have had for years under Bush GOP rule, and we have a broken system of government to prove it . . . a system that included all three branches of government, starting with our Supreme Court and a "ask no questions, but tell all lies" Bush GOP Executive Branch, plus their supporters in Congress, and many of these people are still hanging around trying to see that the Obama administration will fail to correct their failings. [snip]

These same people supported and sent our military and our National Guard into an illegal and treasonous invasion/occupation without proper equipment, benefits, healthcare, and are quite comfortable knowing that many of our military (those not killed or wounded) end up homeless on the streets of this country, and many without proper care are committing suicide after they come home.

To this day, due to the way they use and misuse numbers, we have no idea how many of our military are dead or wounded. How irresponsible is that? How responsible has it been these past years, to have the largest sum of the US budget for US military? And, who would believe such a country when they talked of peace after what this country has done to Iraq and Afghanistan. Eight hundred bases around the world. We are paying for those, while we have people here at home sick or dying from disease and hunger.

Socialism, if only that were the least we Americans had to fear. The real truth? That is the fear of the Bush GOP. A healthy, money clad citizenry. We have job loss, businesses closing, salaries cut, food costs up, gas up, no decent health care, a country with a decaying infrastructure . . . frankly, I don't want to hear anything coming from the mouths of the Republicans in Congress today, or from any of their supporters . . . they have lost their right to tell any of us Americans how we should feel or what we should be afraid of.

We should be afraid of any of them being reelected.

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