de·moc·ra·cy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-mkr-s)
n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies
Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
A political or social unit that has such a government.
The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
Majority rule.
The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
I know I know the US is more of a representative republic...but the quote is more for mindset than anything.
My drive home from las vegas today I was listening to KFYI...an AM mostly conservative station....when I heard these two guys (based out of Lancaster, CA I think) talking about incumbents.
It was refreshing to know they were actually doing this theme called
"political human sacrifice"There focus was based on one republican and one democratic congressmen (from two seperate districts. I mention this because they were not rooting for one party or the other) who really did not have any competition in their upcoming election. The two rivals basically had no chance at winning. Even their own partys were not supporting them...only paying for their "entrence fee" to the election, $1500.
Well these two radio guys did a little research and found an astonishing fact........the incumbant re-election rate in the congress right now is at
96.1% THAT'S ASTOUNDING!!!! Another 3.5% and they'd be tied with Sadam's re-election.
They went on to talk about how BOTH parties....repubs and dems. are "working together" to redraw the congression districts based on a computer generated voting model. Since the last election, these two congressmens distric's percentages of their current parties have increased by as much as 8%. Basically they like the way things are and don't care to change it as long as the current people stay in power.
AND THESE SAME PEOPLE VOTE ON THEIR OWN BENIFITS AND PAY RAISES.
Sorry I'm just kinda sick of my govt. and politics in general as of late. This kinda hit me today on I15 and highway 58 like a ton of bricks. Bush to me is better than Kerry.....but truthfully neither one of them is that great IMHO. I've been telling my friends that don't like Bush enough to vote for them but HATE Kerry to vote for Nader. The same response is "but Bush will win" and my response is allways "you might find you have something in common with somone else. Why vote for somone you don't agree with just so the 'other guy' doesn't win?"
Anyways that's my political rambling for the weekend. Feel free to discuss
