Marjorie Taylor Green Warns of Fake Meat and Peach Tree Dishes

@Dip Dibbler

And the Daisy CUB or RED RYDER!

she would make an 'imbecile' look like a Rhodes Scholar, by comparison...

MTG b-4 she went blonde, you are correct, she is,indeed a cro-magnon

@Angus McFungus Ha ha

@Dip Dibbler yet many countries have found a way to sustainably make democracy work. Here in the US we no longer have a democracy because we let it morph into an oligarchy—just as we did in the late 1800s to early 1930s. I am hopeful the pendulum swings back to a “we the people” democratic republic (meaning ALL the people) before this thing is ruined.

@perlinator Ok to finish up or add a couple of thoughts from here.

First is my disclaimer to being any sort of expert on Greek Philosophy. I am not but neither am I totally ignorant.

Among Plato's idea was to have educated and thereby qualified groups as policy, law makers and judges. That, on it's face makes sense to me. There are modern-day equivalents including the "electoral College" which was in part established because significant numbers of the citizenry were poorly educated, completely illiterate and/or unfamiliar with the platforms of the various candidates.

The Neocons and Q-tards are regressive,anti-education and anti-intellectual as well as not productive and egregiously deficit in many areas of morality, ethics and humanity. Often the repugs are completely unqualified and incompetent in policy making and sadly, even being human. Certainly not fitting any positive definition of leadership as prescribed by Plato. Sophism and Machiavellianism is their stock and trade.

To digress a bit: Slaves entered into the calculations of the electoral college based on votes allocated on headcount.

Perversely, the more slaves Virginia (or any other slave state) bought or bred, the more electoral votes it would receive. Were a slave state to free any blacks who then moved North, the state could actually lose electoral votes.If the system’s pro-slavery tilt was not overwhelmingly obvious when the Constitution was ratified, it quickly became so. For 32 of the Constitution’s first 36 years, a white slaveholding Virginian occupied the presidency. Time

Natives were not citizens until 1924 and could not participate in the "popular vote" until that time. A lot of places to digress here but trying to focus.

Democracy is not solely a practice of European or American governance.

The Iroquois Confederacy, believed to be the longest surviving participatory democracy in the world, cites examples of the influence upon the so called "Founding Constitutional Fathers". in the e-book below.

"EXEMPLAR OF LIBERTY" By Johansen and Grinde

Often described as the oldest, participatory democracy on Earth, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s constitution is believed to be a model for the American Constitution. What makes it stand out as unique to other systems around the world is its blending of law and values. For the Haudenosaunee, law, society and nature are equal partners and each plays an important role. Link

What I believe personally is from diverse sources. This includes the fact that we are creatures of the earth and belong to the earth. 98.8 % shared genetics with Chimpanzees, some individuals are often warlike and inhuman as apes can be. However, we have the potential to transcend violence and injustice in human society. Perhaps it is even an imperative that we do so before we completely destroy ourselves and much of that which exists on the planet. We are at the point of no-return in some of the aspects of unrecoverable human destruction. It is up to us to co-operate as a species and thereby meet Darwin's premise that cooperation between members of a species determines its success and survival.

Don't even try. It doesn't have to make sense for their fans to latch onto it.

@LinnieMae That’s true, but I do see that she’s pushing $ interests, so, it’s kinda fun picturing how fucking mad they must be today for blowing the whole shebang and weakening what they paid for. Just imagine how much money this mess cost them. I love it a lot.

@DeathofRats-BadgeHoorMaroon

Chaos serves their purposes just as well as a cogent legislative action. And with MTG, ya gotta expect chaos!

@LinnieMae

Per Paul Ryan...

"The old meritocracy that takes 10, 20 years to climb, of being a good policymaker, you can just leapfrog that whole process,"

That meritocracy and what we used to refer to as institutional memory are what the far right consider the deep state. Anything that stands in their way, requires thought or introspection or demands accountability is the deep state.

@hotrudderedbum : Hey, I'm making no excuses for the despicable establishment Republican party (least of all Paul Ryan), though obviously it's getting worse. People like Moscow Mitch hate the new firebrands but they serve his purpose well. When a guy wants to sabotage government, the crazy entertainment value of the Qs distracts their base quite effectively. They created this monster.

@LinnieMae not only created it but condone all of it. That means support of the present Republican party means support of ALL their embrace of these idiots and their use of them to distract from their real goal of authoritarian fascism.

😂