Quote:the executive branch is eroding our property rights through regulations and the lives of the innocent were cancelled out by five of the most educated people to ever set foot in this great land.  

 

Representative government is only as good as the representatives.  The greater design of our constitutional republic is that power should be splintered between the three branches of government and the people who elect their representatives through a redundant set of checks and balances.  When you have an unelected oligarchy conspiring to fundamentally usurp the ability of the people to voice their assent or decent, or in this case deny them the basic right to be the authors of the authority given to their representatives, then this is a fundamental bastardization of representative government replacing it with the Tyranny of the few!

 

I would have said this a bit differently, but yeah.  You've pretty much described the current problem with our democratic republic.

 

It's not the Constitution, or the theory of democracy that's the problem.  It's that the safeguards the founding fathers put into place have been usurped by the major wealth and power holders of the country.  The fact that we are seeing ever increasing imbalances between the middle class and the wealthy is evidence of it.  

 

The solution is the problem, but to be honest, we can't really get to a solution untill we have a tipping point of the electorate that is willing to admit this is a problem.  

 

Currently there are about 35-45 percent of the Republicans that see the problem and have begun to vote for Trump.

 

On the Demoratic side, the number is around 43-48 percent.  

 

But we're not at the tipping point yet...  

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