Democracy and the republican Cockade

No ... Democracy is NOT the answer.

I'm no believer that "democracy" solves one damn thing. Listen to your arguments. People are the problem and you think more self-government by these same idiots is the answer? No ... I can't agree. First there must be a cleansing ... a BIG ONE. Human nature is such that mankind NEEDS to go to a place so dark and so dystopian that it literally scares the living hell out of the few survivors ... if there are any at all. What is demcracy worth in an AI world? What is democracy worth when Homo Sapiens is already the genus Homo that has the ability to manipulate its own genes? No. Democracy is just anarchy, chaos, and tyranny of the majority with a nice name attached to it.

As for the history of the United States: people - men and women - enlisted and struggled in that cause because they saw the possibility of liberty and justice for all; that's what the tri-color cockade was all about; a society where governmental norms and boundaries would ensure the greatest individual freedom.

In the words of Thomas Paine:

"...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other law-giver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others."

Representative government (a republic) is the government he's talking about: not "democracy." Yes, a democratic republic (a tri-color cockade "res publica," Latin for a "public thing" administered for the benefit of the people), but “holy gawd no,” not a democracy. You want to be governed by the loons that infest this nation? Not me.

Anyway ... I digress ... the point I want to make is that the American Revolution was sold out from the START. From 1789 and the (Federalist - black cockade) Alexander Hamilton (fuck the stupid ahistorical play) “Plan of the Bank” and the chartering of the first Bank of the United States, the usurpation of constitutional review by the (Federalist - black cockade) Supreme Court in 1803 (Marbury v Madison), and the abandonment of the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Even the break with Britain was never realized (see: Jay Treaty -- John Jay, black cockade). The Revolution was sold out; betrayed; bought off; subverted; and corrupted. Our history is one big lie from beginning to end. The USA never WAS a bastion of liberty and justice for all. Oh yes the struggle continued certainly and rights gradually and bloodily expanded, but right now it's being buried by the great corporate, money-making, banking and finance black-cockade war-machine.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

“A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap.

The word cockade derives from the French cocarde, from Old French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. The earliest documented use was in 1709.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, coloured cockades were used in Europe to show the allegiance of their wearers to some political faction, or to show their rank or to indicate a servant's livery. Because individual armies might wear a variety of differing regimental uniforms, cockades were used as an effective and economical means of national identification.”