NC Government Direction

As some of my good readers know, one of the primary places I get my news about North Carolina government is the internet. I get a lot of information by using keyword searches, including NC Legislature. What's really interesting is that every now and then I'll get some news from Nepal because of the key words. And I found one end-of-year article from Nepal rather interesting:

Year 2006: From despotism to democracy

In the article, they talk about the slow movement from a royal dictatorship to a historic democratic upheaval. They mention how the insurgency has been ended and that a peaceful Democracy with people in charge is working now. They mention how unity between SEVEN political parties brought Democracy to the country.

During the same period, if one looks at North Carolina, you can see the opposite happening. Nearly every day, here on this blog, you can read news about how freedom is disappearing in North Carolina. Every day you can see how the Democrats who control the North Carolina Legislature (due only to gerrymandering) continue to move further and further away from Democracy. Heck, there's almost no reason to vote any more in North Carolina because the vast, vast majority of Legislative seats are already decided by the legislators themselves, rather than the people.

Yes, once upon a time, Virginia, The People of North Carolina were allowed to pick their representatives in Raleigh. But today the legislators select the people they will represent. You see, we're just not smart enough to pick the "right" people, so the Democrats will select our representatives for us.

So Nepal, congratulations on the advances towards Democracy in your country! I'm happy that you have SEVEN different political parties from which to select. But I'll leave you with those famous words of Benjamin Franklin which we have absolutely failed to heed:

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Posted by: Ogre at 01:11 PM

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