Let's have mob rule--We can deliver no health care and no jobs...

[European Socialist]

as well as what's in power right now.

[leftstreet]

1. When citizens gather they are a group, not a 'mob'

Mob is derogatory

But your point is taken all the same.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Can we be a group... with pitchforks? n/t

[obliviously]

2. Ok you start and I will follow your lead!

[Naturyl]

3. Mob rule would be better in this particular case.

A majority of American support single-payer. It's our "representatives" who don't.

[anonymous171]

4. FUCK YEAH! nt

[villager]

5. if you consider a gaggle of Wall Street Fat Cats a "mob," or an arrogance of CEOs, the same

then mob rule is exactly what we have right now.

alas.

But yes -- point taken! ;-)

[Mythsaje]

6. If you mean "mob" as in organized crime,

that IS what we have in power right now... Or so it seems.

Okay... That's not fair. I mean, it's definitely "mob-influenced."

[orleans]

8. i was just going to post the same thing

what was once known as a "crime syndicate" has become the "congressional syndicate"

on edit: spell check... and no mistakes!

[Mythsaje]

9. Probably far more true than we'll ever realize...

And sadder than we can handle.

[Deja Q]

10. Radio show hosts who tell people to get a job or how taxes should be collected

completely forget about the economy... or their own fortunate standing. 6 figure salaries just to bitch in a microphone. The jobless should be so lucky to do the same thing.

[Ghost Dog]

11. It is interesting that when most people refer to "the fall of Rome"

they also refer to the 'mob' in the cities and 'peasants' in the country as dragging down noble citizens and destroying the empire itself, along with 'barbarians', even though such social classes comprised the vast majority of people in the empire.

'Rome', of course, used in the same sense as 'Washington' today, did not fall but was transferred to Constantinople and continued for another one thousand five hundred years or so as what Victorian historians chose to label the 'Byzantine' empire, and the same majority of people mentioned above reorganised the western provinces, as it were, from the bottom up, with at most a local episcopal see and a tax-gathering landlord or two by way of 'authority', as it were, or 'parasites', if you see things that way, until the largely Arabic-speaking Islamic organised authoritarian power was added to that of largely Greek-speaking Orthodox Byzantium in the South and East and the various kingdoms of Western Christendom began to form.

But this overview of that history is normally, according to the narrative we are taught in the 'West' today, forgotten: Rome fell, essentially we are told, and then, eventually, North-West Europe invented capitalism and technology and the modern era arose.