Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 12, 2020" video.

  1. The simple truth about power: Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it. We knew this all the way back in the golden age of the Athenian hegemony. This includes everyone: both the golden boy of the right-wing nuts, and the wanna-be populists who take a mike at a protest. Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it: for any reason. Power should only be given to a person who doesn't want it and has been found to be the best person for the job. This is why we should turn from our psuedo-republic, which is really a plutocratic kleptocracy to a neoconfusian meritocracy where all positions of power are temporarily held by those found most adequate by means of testing and virtual scenarios devised by scientists and voted on by the populace. The populace would not vote for people but for the various tests devised to select the office holders. I am aware of the objections some would have to this but they are nothing that cannot be resolved by technical means, such as the top scorers being tested further in secure conditions. These tests would be mandatory for every citizen at regular intervals, and whoever scores highest would assume the position they tested for during the next regular government upgrade. This would be superior in every respect to the plutocratic kleptocracy we are now enslaved by. And all forms of cheating could be easily overcome by technical means.
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  2. In 1969 my girlfriend and I were returning to our apt from dining out. The route we were taking went through a black section of a small city in PA. I first noticed that many of the windows on the street were smashed. It all happened very quickly. Next I notice that there were cars overturned up ahead on fire. It is a one lane one way street without room to turn around. Next I hear someone scream "whitey!" and a brick hits my windshield right in front of my girlfriend and showers her face with glass. A mob of people started to converge on my car. If it wasn't for a small alleyway that just happened to be right at the left of my car I would have had no way out. I took off down the alley and a mob of people literally collided with each other where I had been a moment before. I drove directly to the police station before I stopped because I didn't know how extensive the riots were. The car I had seen burning in the next block had held an elderly white couple that were pulled out of their car and beaten to death. My girlfriends face was covered in blood but only superficial lacerations. If not for the luck of that alley we would have been dead just because we were white. So I know exactly how it feels to be targeted for no reason but your race. The next year, my freshman year a university, I went with a close black friend to a black power rally. I was the only white person there. I was so abused both by the audience and from the stage that I got up and left, despite being there to support their cause. I guess I told you that so that you could rest assured it is a pan human trait to be brutal. Given the opportunity the oppressed will step right up an oppress others.
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  3.  @BenGrem917  If you were a male, and owned land, and not a foreigner, you were required to vote. Athens has a tradition of banishing people they put in power when they didn't live up to expectations, and sometimes even if they did.
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  4.  Pat Moore  I can hardly think of a stupider response than yours. I am hardly a bigot, but I bet you are. Also you should really consider learning how to read for comprehension, as your reply is severely lacking in anything approaching it.
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