Most people realize that the majority of politicians are more interested in growing their own money and power more than they are our freedom (the Constitution). But in the heat of the game (Republican verses Democrat), it is easy to lose sight of what is really important (the Constitution and our freedom), and cast aside all reason to make sure our side wins. That mob mentality is no accident. Group Identity Instead Of Individual Identity In seventeenth and eighteenth century theory of democracy it was the individual that was considered to be the base unit of society and therefore it was individual rights that were paramount in documents like the U.S. Constitution…..Follett (She is known as the mother of the progressive movement designed to end our Constitution) went on to state that “But there is no such thing as the ‘individual’ …(54) and since there was no such thing as the individual, it would naturally follow there should be no such thing as individual rights.(55) The concept of individual rights had many flaws according to Follett’s political philosophy, not least of which was the fact that they believed that people were too stupid to make informed decisions. …The New State she proclaimed that, “Ballot-box democracy is what this book is written to oppose.” (57) The solution to this problem, according to Follett, was to eliminate the individual as the basic unit of society and replace him with a group organizations (57) Group rights would now take the place of individual rights. Under the old order, man was endowed with certain God given rights—under the new system the only rights that man had were those that the group would bestow upon him. (59) It makes it possible for a very small number of people to control a very large number of groups. ________________ check voting records before voting, and that includes third party choices. List of all candidates running in 2016 politics1/p2016.htm Check Voting records votesmart.org/
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:12:43 +0000