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In reply to the discussion: I Just Cried [View all]Volaris
(10,270 posts)That "armed insurrection" they keep pining for will end up looking more like Waco than the Civil War. Its because there are more WANNABE crazies than ACTUAL crazies, and when the ACTUAL crazies go first, and get utterly stomped on by the Modern Union Army (see Federal FBI and ATFe) the WANNABE crazies will say "Fuck THAT" , go back to hiding in their holes and having their "rage" channeled by El-Rushbo BACK into the political system. As much as it can suck sometimes in terms of getting through to our political opposition, our system of Government is DESIGNED to allow people like Rush to have the influence on politics that they do, because Madison was smart enough to know that if they didnt, those people WOULD attempt to lead armed revolts in the streets.
The Madisonian System channels that energy UP into the Political Hierarchey, rather than OUT into the street. The strongest of those people and their ideas survive and make it all the way to the top, and then that energy is split into the 3 branches, which is then (by the addition of a Democratic Element to our Republic, is transfered BACK DOWN into the masses of the General Population. Diagramed, it looks like a circular water fountain in the center of a lake, elegant.
What Jefferson was to the idea and language of "We the People", Madison was to the implementation of those words into a Functional Governmental System. And he got it so right that it has worked (mostly, and with very few changes) for over 200 years. THATS Genius.