| Your model, G, is actually cyclical in nature. We democrats here in the US only get leftists in power right after hardline republicans mess up royally, and we get hardline republicans when complacency breeds moderate dems. I count Clinton as the fourth cycle since the depression. Why, if you want to reform the system, don't you do it at the top of the cycle, not the bottom? After all, if the only problem is a lack of judgement on the behalf of the people involved in terms of where their tax dollars are being spent, then isn't education the key? My grandfather worked for the CCC - it's plain to see that taxes aren't inherently bad.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |