Ya and democracy's* purpose was to mitigate and diffuse the power of the state against the will of the "people," and yet here we are...it's true what they say about good intentions...
*democracy as it is contemporarily understood, i.e. as in synonymous with a (small r) republican government, not the classically understood democracy detailed by Hamilton et al as the enabler of mob rule and factional divisiveness.
I think I've said too much already. A girl can't lay down all her cards at once. Good thing my deck goes higher than 52. I wish I were a guy so I could pee anywhere I wanted while standing up. That's real power. I'd like to meet the following: My great-great grandparents, the N. Oklahoma ones, not the Swiss gentry. My woebegone friendship with Adam G. The man who's going to be with me till we're retired to the porch swing sucking on glycerine tablets, and who still reads to me at night, while I rub his feet. My ambitions with commitment and discipline. The characters from old David Lee Roth videos. Hot carb on carb action. That fucker who keeps trying to take the bbq, in a dark alley, satan's minions, lilliputians, nigglers, pifflers, piddlers, snake-oil peddlers, cripples, do-gooders, truth-seekers, sweethearts, wandering minstrels, interlopers, robber barons, saints, sinners, people who snort and guffaw, holler and whoop, tender tender people with good hearts, and all my fat little babies. I like BUTTER! And Vitamin Z!
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Investigation or invention?
tricky territory, H.
Ya and democracy's* purpose was to mitigate and diffuse the power of the state against the will of the "people," and yet here we are...it's true what they say about good intentions...
*democracy as it is contemporarily understood, i.e. as in synonymous with a (small r) republican government, not the classically understood democracy detailed by Hamilton et al as the enabler of mob rule and factional divisiveness.
- Huck
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