Communities are another form of accumulation of power into a human hierarchy.

It replaces one boss with many other petty tyrants.

The diffusion of power should never be stopped simply at a lower level hierarchy. That defeats its purpose.

All communities seek to accumulate power to themselves. It is only the processes of power diffusion set by the US Constitution and the American way of life that allows such hierarchies to exist without impeding the power flow to the people.

Without that overarching sets of limitations and enforcements that make power flow backwards from one spot into as many tributaries as it will take to drain the ocean, then what you have are a hundred different clans all raiding, killing, and exterminating each other. Like what the Middle East and Darfur and Rwanda has.

Power either accumulates in one spot or it diffuses throughout.

Over any long period of time, human social dynamics and politics will naturally incline towards accumulating power and ensuring that it does not diffuse. The two are mutually exclusive.

The Marxists or the Aristocrats, who America were fighting, are for accumulating power, they are just for accumulating power in different places. Marx wants power with his little shin dig and the aristos want power in their little fief, instead. They hate each other precisely because they are each other. And they both hate us, America, because we are the death of both of them. Our focus on diffusion of power breaks both Marx’s economic ideology and the aristo’s blue blood beliefs about good governance.

It can be no other way. This is not an enemy you can defeat. You can only push it into the depths of the sea while you teach your children and grandchildren to watch the waves.

Many also peg you as a Marxist because when you tell us your political ideas that is what they are – you may give them a different label (or, most likely wherever or whomever you got them from did so) but they are still Marxists.

Your young so I normally do not jump on much you say yet – you will either figure these things out in a few years and look back at how stupid you were or you will internalize the cognitive dissonance needed to keep those beliefs. If you internalize them then I will if you happen to still post someplace I do too.

And who is without fault? No one. Everyone ignores faults in people. To expect a person without faults is to demand that you be lied to.

Is it hostile to recognize, as someone who has heard her speak many times, that Palin’s diction in the recent debate was utterly contrived and patently ludicrous?

Downgrading or upgrading one’s normal diction is a contrivence isn’t it? Why is it any worse when a politician speaks a certain way to impress class A than when a politician gussies up his speaking with big fancy and formal words? If you KNOW for certain she was pandering downwards, then you know you she actually speaks better .. so since you’re just criticizing her for talking like a hillbilly yet knowing that she isn’t, do you equally criticize Obama when he drops down into Angry Black Preacher Man?

Again, I would appreciate a challenge to my assertion that this blog and many of those who read it are actively swimming in a “Palinmania” similar to the ignorance you charge exists surrounding Barack Obama.

No one has ignored Sarah’s weakness. Even in the first paragraph of neo’s article it says:

“It was far worse than any ignorance Palin, the supposed novice, has shown on any foreign policy issue to date.”

Right there it says Palin is ignornat of some foreign policy. We all know this.

I very honestly have appreciated Sarah Palin as my governor for quite a while, excepting some few things- namely that she is biased towards her home area of the state (”the valley”- in southcentral) and against my own (southeast).

I think if you were to really pigeonhole me into a political category nowadays, I would be more libertarian than liberal. I only continue to call myself socialist because I believe once government is limited and decentralized enough it will be much easier to achieve near-utopian socialist communities at a local level.

The Pilgrims tried near-Utopian Socialism at the local level when they first got here. It was a disaster, they almost all died. The work ethic America has today is because of the lessons learned from that.

Also, hippies been trying to do the commune thing for decades… it doesn’t work. You cannot change human nature. Humans are inately selfish. No amount of indoctrination or coercion is going to change that.

Even the Kibbutz in Israel failed. Very few persist.

If you were really were libertarean-leaning you would have removed any traces of Socialism from your profile. Socialism is the epitome of everything that libertearanism is not.

If any of the candidates runing for P or VP is closest to a liberterean it would be Sarah Perin.

And seeing how insist we’re all zombies like the Obamanoids are… I’ll repost the comment I made on the article that neo made right at the end of the debate

As a McCain Palin supporter, I will say where I think she could have done better

The Details. She is light on those in regards to things coming from Washington. Though I dont know what’s expected of someone who has no previous exposure to Washington.. I dont recall this being a major issue for anyone in the past, but most VP picks have been people from inside Washington scene

Blaming Wall St. Wall St did exactly what the Federal Gov, The Clinton and Bush White Houses, Congress and the Fed told them to do.. and that was trade in mortgage securities, buy them from Fannie, and have banks hemorrhage loans and sell them to Fannie.

And all of that stems from policies originated and expanded by Democrats. She should have made the case to the people that the Democrats caused this disaster and they cant’ be allowed to be the ones to “fix it”.. but she didnt’ and let Joe Biden get away with his lies that it was Bush policy at the root.

President of the Senate: Good luck with that, John Adams didn’t get very far, I dont think you will either.

Criticisms aside, I think she did a good job, and so did Biden and the moderator too.

So really.. I have no idea where you get that we’re all blind.

I think you are.

And yes you’re elitist. even at your age.

“I would appreciate a challenge to my assertion that this blog and many of those who read it are actively swimming in a “Palinmania” similar to the ignorance you charge exists surrounding Barack Obama.”

Well, for starters; Obama really is connected to an un repentant leftist terrorist, while Palin had nothing to do with forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits.

Are we clear yet?

I feel somewhat complemented from being called part of the “intellectual elite,” but I think you had better wait until I go to college first. I’ll join my own class and stereotype once I become an adult, thank you very much. As for now I am from a very middle class family in a small town (Nowhere, it seems) in a state that now is apparently a part of the “heartland”.

And I agree that centralization is bad. Socialists don’t necessarily support centralization- just big government- and I imagine big government as existing within a small, involved and democratic community.

I only charge that this blog and many conservatives are flatly ignoring many of Sarah Palin’s faults. Is it hostile to recognize, as someone who has heard her speak many times, that Palin’s diction in the recent debate was utterly contrived and patently ludicrous? Again, I would appreciate a challenge to my assertion that this blog and many of those who read it are actively swimming in a “Palinmania” similar to the ignorance you charge exists surrounding Barack Obama. I very honestly have appreciated Sarah Palin as my governor for quite a while, excepting some few things- namely that she is biased towards her home area of the state (“the valley”- in southcentral) and against my own (southeast).

I think if you were to really pigeonhole me into a political category nowadays, I would be more libertarian than liberal. I only continue to call myself socialist because I believe once government is limited and decentralized enough it will be much easier to achieve near-utopian socialist communities at a local level.

Is that satisfactory?

Whether or not the choice of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate was another shot from the hip, as the apparent lack of vetting suggests, in introducing her McCain presented her as a reformer who fought corruption. Yet the record shows that she served as director of a so-called 527 group – a technically independent political organization that can raise unlimited funds from corporate donors – supporting Senator Ted Stevens. On July 29, 2008 Stevens was indicted on seven counts of corruption. He is accused of failing to report expensive gifts from now-defunct oil company Veco, including a new first floor on his house. Stevens endorsed Palin during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign, and the two filmed a TV commercial that was removed from her web site after McCain announced her as his running mate. When Palin was mayor of Wasilla, AK, she hired a Washington lobbying firm headed by Stevens’ former chief of staff, Steven Silver (more on this below). Inexplicably, McCain sidekick Lindsey Graham spent Friday, August 29, telling TV news organizations that Palin “took on” Ted Stevens, adding “If you can take on Ted Stevens and that crowd in Alaska, you can handle the Russians.”

There is some thing of naivety here.
People keep blaming Democrats for the Bush area.

If Bush for two terms in WH could not fix the problem that Democrats started why people keep blaming democrat for Bush fault?

Some will not agree as some Bush he tried but he could not, but let look Republicans have six year in control of senate, and they are leading the country for 8 years so what they done to fix?

The simple answer is lacks of leadership and mismanagement of the country by Bush and his Co.

Presuming John McCain and Palin win next election what guarantees they can fix the problem left by Bush in first term or with second terms?

What about Democrats if the win they can they fix the problem? Or they also put the balm on Bush for future problems in US.

Some people keep their hypobaric high when they talking here about candidates and elections , they seems to forgot that the support they have and love not can fix the problem for the country and Americans

I wonder if Karl Rove feels abandoned now.