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Ok...well then, doesn't the tea-party movement at the very least threaten to destabilize that trend towards fascism? I mean, the only way to limit government is to defund it, so, who's trying to do that?
(no, I have no affiliation with the Tea-Party)
I think that the Tea Party started out as a very good idea and was then quickly captured by the body politic. I think a few things we most certainly need to give the People the proper tools to control the government is first the complete repeal of McCain/Feingold. It's even now being used the wrong way where it censors the individual but allows corporations unlimited mobility. It should be the other way around. We also need to open up the political process by allowing multiple parties at debates. We also need to have actual debates and not little staged plays for us all to watch and absorb sound bites and no real information like so many freshman business classes. I for one would love to see the League of Women Voters get back the Presidential Debates. We'd also need a real press. One that isn't this biased, entertainment based crap we have now. But one that actually reports the actions and concerns of the government to the People so that we can have good and reliable information on what the government is doing.
What we're seeing in our system now is the classic example of how government behaves when it begins to isolate itself from the control of the People it governs.