Comments on: Quote Of The Day

By: Michael O. Powell

Michael O. Powell — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:34:35 +0000

Controlphreak – I haven’t actually read it, but it seems Fukuyama used the term “democracy” interchangeably to describe what is really republican governance.

I would posit that direct democracy has been pushed in post-war situations with alot of ethnic and tribal divisions i.e. Iraq. In Iraq, you had alot of American commentators cheerleading as Iraqis voted for ethnic warfare, because at least they were voting. Given our own historical divisions, things could have been alot worse if we hadn’t started off with a republican system set up with loads of checks and balances.

By: Michael O. Powell

Michael O. Powell — Thu, 20 May 2010 10:30:24 +0000

It’s really pretty funny that, in less than two decades, we went from Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” being a bestseller to Fareed Zakaria’s “The Post-American World” topping the lists.

By: Right-Wing Links (May 19, 2010)

Right-Wing Links (May 19, 2010) — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:00:01 +0000

[...] Quote Of The Day World War I is the genesis of what I can think of only as the Great American Myth. The Great American Myth gave birth to other myths: Can Do, Know How, and No Fault, myths which abide to this day and yield up such disasters as Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Lebanon and Grenada. The myth also operates, and perhaps nowhere else so fatefully, in every new president’s conception of himself and his command of foreign affairs. Since FDR it has become almost de rigeur for each president to make it plain to all that he will be his own secretary of state. — Robert A. Nisbet [...]

By: Controlphreak

Controlphreak — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:39:50 +0000

I’d say 1)we’ve never had democracy proper in this nation or any other since ancient Athens (with a tiny population), and 2)democracy and entitlement states are not a direct correlation. I’d like to see Fukuyama’s connotation of democracy.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:01:30 +0000

As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote eloquently in his Democracy In America tome;

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”