Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Jesse Dollemore"
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They’re even less liberal and democratic than Thomas Jefferson….
"The true foundation of republican government," Jefferson wrote, "is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management".
In that letter Jefferson outlined the need for "ward republics," small units of local government, within Virginia's existing counties, which he thought were too large for direct participation of all the voters. He proposed to divide the counties into "wards of such size as that every citizen can attend, when called on, and act in person … will relieve the county administration of nearly all its business, will have it better done, and by making every citizen an acting member of the government, and in the offices nearest and most interesting to him, will attach him by his strongest feelings to the independence of his country, and its republican constitution".
His proposal was that such wards consist of no more people than can all know one another and personally perform the functions of government for one another; direct democracy at the district level.
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Well he wasn’t wrong, though I disagree with the way he gave his thoughts. Both parties are corrupt, but one is illiberal and reactionary. That said we need an actual left leaning party. Democrats are not an opposition party, they’re center right neoliberal enablers. They play games with Republicans rather than actually pose real solutions. The parties have a deal of keeping each other in power. When it comes to it, history shows capitalists break fascist out of fear of labor organization and liberation. Obama had a supermajority and did not make abortion a Constitutional right, did the right wing think tank solution for healthcare, bailed out Wall Street, and once again money went up instead of distributing. If you don’t know that Democrats are the real traditionalist conservatives, you won’t see the Republicans for the far right extremists they are. And fail to see that this country hasn’t had an actual Left since the government murdered all the leftist leaders and movements in the 60s, 70s, 80s.
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