“A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.”
Hat tip: O Insurgente
A natural development when there are more people dependent on taxed income, than people providing this taxed income. In Denmark two thirds now live on income from the state paid by the last one third. Guess what that does to the voting?
Portugal is not quite there yet with the two thirds, but is moving in that direction. And in fact ineptocracy is definitely firmly entrenched. The ineptitude shown in the past is of epic proportions and serve as an example of how not to run a country.
BTW, the idea of representative democracy is not one of mediocre politicians or politicians craving in to the masses. Edmund Burke once wrote:
...it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Hat tip: O Insurgente
A natural development when there are more people dependent on taxed income, than people providing this taxed income. In Denmark two thirds now live on income from the state paid by the last one third. Guess what that does to the voting?
Portugal is not quite there yet with the two thirds, but is moving in that direction. And in fact ineptocracy is definitely firmly entrenched. The ineptitude shown in the past is of epic proportions and serve as an example of how not to run a country.
BTW, the idea of representative democracy is not one of mediocre politicians or politicians craving in to the masses. Edmund Burke once wrote:
...it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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| Edmund Burke 1729-1797 |
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