Why Republicans Are Opposed to Supporting the Poor - An Open Secret

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25. One thing is for certain, almost no one sincerely believes in Democracy

You find that out when you get your first job. Democracy stops at the door.

The truly radical proposal of Democracy has never really been tried on a scale larger than a village. From the beginning it has been handicapped by hierarchy, so-called "property rights" (which included slavery and the subjugation of women) and physical force by the strong over the weak.

It's the one system of mass governance that might actually be just. And yet so few can see this. Everyone clings to what they have for fear the mob will take it away. But the mob always does eventually, as it inevitably grows. Pick a side, for death must come to us all, sooner or later.

As the brilliant Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick once stated, "The Empire never ended". We all await the "return of the king", who will mete out fair justice, and ensure prosperity for all. But that never really occurs, of course. It's just a fantasy we keep believing in, ever-chasing that Golden Bough, which might release us from our eternal imprisonment of fear. Fear of "the other". Fear of "those people who are not like us." That is our natural tendency, which we must now overcome.