How can the American system of government be so great if it is so easily corrupted by a neocon cabal?

Answer 1

A good question--but the strength if the American system is its resiliance, not any supposed immunity from corruption.

Look back at history. The neocon attempt to subvert our government was not carried out quickly--or easily. It traaces back to the failed attempt by right-wing fanatics (e.g. McCarthy, the John Birch Society) in the late 1940s-1950s to seize control and institute wat would have amounted to a facist state. The most explicit legal move here was the original version of the 1947 Taft-Hartly Act (not the more limited version actually passed) which would have subjected the laboring people of America to essentially the same kinds of state control as had existed in Nazi Germany.

The current "neoconservatives" date from the late 1970s--specifically, the "Moral Majority" movement. They did not reach the level of power we've seen the last 7 years for a quarter century, however--it was not something that happened "easily" in any sense.

The election of Bush was a threshold point--the neocon leadership effectively controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency as well as the Republican party. That gave them the power base to again attempt to subvert the Constitution as they had tried to do in the "McCarthy Era." And 9/11 gave them the opportunity.

And-they have failed. Our system of government has the ability to bend a great deal without breaking--and to recover. The neocons and their antecedants in the mid-twentieth century are simply the latest problem. The American system and Constitution have been attacked many times--from the slaveowers of the oldSouth to the "Robber Barons" of the late 1800s, attempts by socialists in the Progressive era and in the 1930s, etc.

But--take not of this--the reason why the American system endures does NOT depend on "the system" as some sort of automatic mechanism. It survives because individual Americans--sometimes few in number , sometimes in large mass movements, take action to counter such assults. The "system" is critical only in that our foundig fathers--and particually the Framers of the Constitution--did an unbelievably brilliant job of creating a structure of protections of individual rights and liberties that has kept Americans free to act--and act effectively. the importance of that can bee seen in the fact that the assults--including tat of todays neocons--are always focused on stripping Americans of their civil and political liberties.

In the end, though--it depends on us--on individual citizes being willing to stand up against would-be dictators and speak out--on being willing to use the tools so carefully crafted by the men who put our system of government together.

So--do your part. Ask questions--especially the ones no one wants to hear. Vote. Write your representatives. Get involved in the political process--whether its as a camaign volunteer, appearing at local public meetings , even marching in the streets when you think it necessary.

That--the activie involvement of an aware citizenry--is the core of our system. it was--and is--the best the world has ever seen. But it is up to us--the American citizen--to make it work--because, in the final analysis, we ARE the system--not the words, however noble--scrached on a piece of paper over 200 years ago.

Answer 2

There's nothing great about a system where money decides who becomes President where not all votes are counted and where not every ones vote is as important as that of the next citizen(electoreal college).

Neoconservatism is a logical result of what Republicans have always stood for since the second world war with as absolute bottom point the Reagan social massacre and foreign policy hypocrisy. Later came Newt with the classic tax scheme reinvented. The Necons are nothing new and I don't believe America needs "real" conservatives. America needs a push to the left.

By underfunding vital government services to the brink of collapse they show government is inefficient and the free market is always better. They don't fund properly and then use the inevitable poor service as a reason to fund it even less or even abolish it.

The only thing the American right is good at is PR because the above example of perverse power politics isn't recognized as such by most Americans but welcomed as the hollow low taxes rhetoric. Facts are Republicans are for big money and don't care about ordinary Americans whether they are Democrats or Republicans

Answer 3

My belief is that our government actually has four branches: the usual three AND the press. It has long been held that two of the branches, the executive and the legislative are terminally broken. If this is true, and I believe that largely, it is, it leaves only the judiciary and the press to defend the constitution. Bush's accesion to power is best explained thusly: all four braches failed and continue to fail (with a few notable exceptions in the judiciary and sadly, almost none in the press).

The truth remains unknown to most Americans. The truth to which you have alluded, is that we are governed by shadow-by people whose interests are mostly self-serving and largely paranoid-by people whom we did not elect and whom few Americans know. None of this a theory-it is right out in the open-it is never reported here-it is never debated here-it is the elephant in living room that we dare not mention if we have the eyes and the brains to see it.

At least since 1944 American foreign policy has been about empire. For nearly as long, American domestic policy has been about deception.

Answer 4

I had to sigh when I read this question.
The majority of Americans are moderates, not liberal nor conservatives. Moderates view neocons, as you called social conservatives, as the lesser of two evils. When elected, no ruling party is corrupt. The corruption is the result of power and the desire to hold onto it.
Regardless of being right wing or left wing, once installed in power the corruption begins.

Answer 5

those 'useful' examples have been occurring because of the fact a minimum of 1795..the earliest checklist that i've got got here upon. YAZOO LAND SCANDAL (1795) there are various examples of corruption, yet our united states and its political device survive. What you have earlier you presently could be barely extra in intensity reporting coupled with better, quicker distribution of the information. Nothin' new right here. this is an identical ole stuff with new names.

Answer 6

Any system is as weak as its weakest link. Humans are at the heart all systems of government.
At some point, the human comes face to face with himself as a stranger.

Answer 7

It WAS a great system. It is now a sham. We need someone who will take a stand. Google Ron Paul

He will Veto any Unbalanced Budget. In his 20 years in congress he has voted against everyone they have brought to a vote.

Answer 8

great system breed great corruption