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Republics die when:
a) Corporate interests trump the common good
b) When you get a standing professional army
c) When you get wealth concentrated in too few hands (and the corruption that that brings - the best government you can buy)
d) when you start to lose social mobilityNow, all of these have been going on for the last 58 years, more or less, accelerating in time. This is a trend, and not neccessarily the reult of one person or one parties actions, although both parties have been guilty of pushing it further along.
Bush II pushed the entire apple cart over the cliff.
Obama? I have no clue about this guy. I like his appeals to the common good, and don't mind government money spent on education, health care, etc. But on the flip side he's done nothing except seemingly appease the financial class so far, which really, really pisses me off. I'm giving him the slight benefit of the doubt that maybe he's playing a longer game here and trying to manage the obvious decline of the market while trying to limit the social pain. Not sure if that's feasible and he's going to eat up all his political capital in the process...