How about if we just privatize the presidency and the congress?

[Cyrano]

Why not? Why keep going through some voting charade every few years?

It's become apparent that whoever is "elected," the American peasantry is going to go on getting screwed every way imaginable.

So if we did privatize the presidency and the congress, how would we go about deciding who gets to occupy the thrones of power?

Easy. We have a TV show called "American Emperors." The judges would be the Koch brothers, Richard Mellon Scaife, Joseph Coors, and a few other hand-picked "deciders." (It's what happens right now, so why not just broadcast it in prime time?)

Can anyone see any flaw in this idea? I'm damned if I can see one.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. How about if we just privatize the presidency and the congress?

Already underway.

[Wilms]

2. Cyrano, those positions have already been privatized.

:(

[jtrockville]

28. Next step: OFFSHORE them.

I bet it's much cheaper to buy politicans if they're from China or India. Maybe we'd have a shot at buying ourselves some representation?

[Cyrano]

29. LOL. Right on.

It's not often that I say "I wish that I'd said that," but you're post is so damned on target, jtrockville, that I wish I'd said that.

[alfredo]

3. Congress was officially privatized with the Citizens United

decision. We are now a corporatist state. One state, Utah, wants to make it law that the US is not a democracy.

[madmax]

11. Bingo! nt

[alfredo]

26. We have to take our country back from those thieves.

[madmax]

30. I was hopeful

Looks like this prick in Wisconsin is going to get away with this bullshit. Maybe it's too soon to call but, I don't like the way this is going. But, wtf do I know.

[alfredo]

31. The courts are our only hope.

[madmax]

32. Then

'All hope abandon ye who enter here'.

Bush v. Gore
Citizens United

Just for starters.

[alfredo]

36. The courts will be looking over their shoulders, knowing if

they play favoritism, they will face the same angry mob the legislature is facing.

[shanti]

4. it's already a done deal

n/t

[EFerrari]

5. Too late, I think.

[The Doctor.]

7. Yep.

My first thought too.

[WolfoftheWild]

6. How about we throw a complete shit-fit and just let the Repukes have the Country?

That worked great in 2010.

[EFerrari]

9. And what shit fit was that?

You mean, the one where centrists voted for Republicans and the Blue Dogs ate it? Like that?

Or, are you just happy to see us?

[WolfoftheWild]

13. No, the one where Liberals "taught the Dems a lesson" by not voting.

[EFerrari]

23. And what is your evidence for that?

I'd love to see it.

:hi:

[WolfoftheWild]

24. do you doubt it happened, or you just don't think it qualifies as a shit-fit?

There are plenty of them here wondering why not voting was such a bad thing if you need some evidence that it actually happened.

[Dogtown]

25. I doubt your intent, Wolfie.

:eyes:

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Looks like somebody beat you to the idea.

[madmax]

10. You were reading my thoughts... nt

[Newest Reality]

12. America Incorporated!!!

Eventually we will change the name and call our leaders, The Supreme Board of Directors, since they are already acting the part anyway.

[Cleita]

14. You mean just have a CEO and Board of Directors?

But what would they sell to make a profit? I could guess. All the people who are out of work because of outsourcing could be sold as slaves. Our forests could be stripped for lumber. BP kinda ruined the fishing in the Gulf so that's not a very good market. :shrug:

[Modern_Matthew]

15. Some Libertarians want to privatize our court system. Can you imagine? nt

[abelenkpe]

19. And prison nt

[dkofos]

16. Will that be better than corporatizing??

[NightWatcher]

17. didnt FEC v. Peoples United already do this?

[abelenkpe]

18. Thought we already did that. Nt

[damntexdem]

20. Too late: begun under Reagan and completed under Dubya.

;-)

[defendandprotect]

21. They did that already -- !!!

[Maine_Nurse]

22. I say do it by lottery...

keep administrative employees permanently so someone knows how things work (much like small town management here) and replace the lottery losers every 4 years.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. Or stop voting for "them/y."

:think:

[Angry Dragon]

33. Already are

[fittosurvive]

34. ...and run the country like a business? If they did that one of the first things

they would be forced to do is repeal the unified budget act to prevent further looting of Social Security and to report budget deficits correctly. Then they would have to find a way of fairly generating $2 trillion over the next few years to pay back the American workers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Ok how many of you are looking into my fiction notes?

Trust me, it is NOT a good idea... dystopias are not nice

[Hannah Bell]

37. good idea. sell the offices to the highest bidders each year & rebate the money to the people.

why bother spending those millions on a campaign, just mail us the checks.