Is silence the most popular form of government?

Question

Do we allow ourselves to be governed more by our own silence rather than by our own participation? If so, what have we to ***** about? Don't we get what we deserve?

Answer 1

this question makes me think more than any of th answer that will be given to it. Everibody hates change, even for the best, sometime.

Throwing the dirt under the carpet and not caring if anithyng goes wrong (maybe complainingabout it a little... a little bit like blaming god for everithyng that goes wrong...)

We are growing lazy and fat. Tyrants understood a long time ago that to keep people under their heed it's easier to make them fat and sleepy than to pass themselves for god or to burn them on a bonefire.

I think that if our grandfathers had to stand so much crap from their governament they would already have rebelled... Being Italian my perception of politic is a little different: we look at policy with resignation more than with hope, we miss an agora where to tell our governament what we feel.

Maybe the point is not our silence: maybe we don't have a place to scream.

Answer 2

No. The most popular form of government is voting every 4 years.

Answer 3

Oh we are not silent. We love to complain but not to the people that can change things. It has been proven twice in recent years that if the people yell loud enough they can get results. ( Amnesty, Social Security reform ) We need more of that. If enough people let our representatives know what we think, it can make a difference.

Answer 4

If we expect our elected representatives to truly represent us, the onus is on each person to make sure his or her elected Representatives know how they feel about the issues. If we don't tell them, they won't know, so how can we hold them accountable? If we tell them, and they don't live up to their promises or if they don't honestly represent us, then it is the job of the voters to vote for someone who will honestly represent them.

Answer 5

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

This is quoted from the American Declaration of Independence!

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
Mark Twain 1835 -1910

The government is merely a servant — merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Mark Twain 1835 -1910

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain 1835 -1910

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice : Robert H. Parker

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds… we will have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account, but we will be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers… And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent foe another… till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery… And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it’d train wretchedness and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Thomas Jefferson 1743- 1826

To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them...
George Mason

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Theodore Roosevelt

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it
Hubert H. Humphrey

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the …trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay 1777-1852

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
H. L. Mencken

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke 1729-1797


"Wise Men Speak Because They Have Something To Say But Fools Speak Because They Have To Say Somethin"

If we continue to ask for truth, then refuse to listen.
Mankind will forever, be doomed to destruction.

The universe grows smaller every day. The treat to security by any group, anywhere can no longer be tolerated.
There must be security for all, or none are secure! This requires giving up no freedoms, except the freedom to act irresponsibly! The decision rests with you!
Klaatu

Without change something inside us sleeps and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Duke Lito Atraities

I beleive these statements speak right to the heart of the matter!

Answer 6

...Not quite...-It's Second, -to Apathy. If MORE of us voted in the FIRST place, we wouldn't be getting what "we deserve"- today... :(

Answer 7

No it aint silenece, is stealing!!!