Which is precisely why the government officials that are required to swear into the office are required to uphold and protect the CONSTITUTION.
NOT THE PEOPLE.
Not the government, not the white house, not the justice system but the LAW. The US Founders knew that relying on people making right choices is a terrible idea, democracy doesn't work at all, it quickly dissents into authoritarian nightmare.
Yeah, pretty much agree with this part, I mean, they wrote books on this very subject. Hell, they even wrote about the tyranny of a two party system. Kind of hard not to agree, IMO.
However, you lost me at the next part, when you started employing leaps of unfounded nonsensical logic.
[...] democracy doesn't work at all, it quickly dissents into authoritarian nightmare. because it promises too everything to everybody for nothing (actually it promises to subsidize the unproductive majority by stealing from the productive minority). Eventually you destroy what you tax and this includes all types of taxes.
So, you're saying that the MAJORITY is unproductive, and they're STEALING from the PRODUCTIVE MINORITY? What the fuck are you talking about fool? Tell me, how are those "minority" so fucking productive? Signing the articles of incorporation and moving 1's and 0's between two points isn't fucking productive you moron. Who is being productive here are the workers that allow the business to make money. Nowhere is this more evident than in small businesses. I know, I've owned small businesses, starting with next to ZERO dollars, doing all the work myself.
When I was the Majority of my labor, I was most productive. When I hired on some help, I managed contracts and filed taxes, did office work for half the time. I relied on my laborers to do the productive work. That desk work is necessary red-tape, but it's far from fucking productive. Wheeling and dealing clients to get more jobs is necessary, but you're a fucking idiot if you think it's more productive that the people doing the labor to fill those contracts.
From just the tax rates on income and property, to various rules, laws and regulations that government imposes upon business to buy votes (be it minimum wage, various laws that give employees special powers to sue employers for any perceived 'wrongdoing', any kind of entitlement to the employers and customers that end up being obligations upon the employers and producers).
This eventually ends up destroying the productive class of people and destroys incentives for people even trying to become productive, here is a good satirical overview of the problem.
Government handouts aren't the fucking problem. They're a small slice of the fuck-up pie. What about the trillions of dollars in war spending? What about the government sanctioned monopolies in telecom sectors? What about the rich businesses getting away with a "Double Irish" -- A legal form of tax evasion? What about paying high ranking members of companies in stock options to avoid taxes? That's all legal, but it's plain an simple bullshit, and shouldn't be legal by any rational stretch of the word.
At the end of the day the rich minority are to blame for the majority of the problems, not the gheto hoochie slummers. I've lived in a ghetto. This opinion piece you linked to is more sensationalist Kool-Aid made to appease the rich minority into thinking their continued exploitation of the majority is warranted. The majority of folks in the dregs of society are just trying to make ends meat. My next door neighbor operated a fork-lift in a 110 degree warehouse 10 hours a day, and could only afford the same shitty housing project apartment that such welfare mommas do. His fiancé's wall-mart job payed shit, they purposefully cut hours to cause folks to quit so they could hire more cheap part-time work without paying employee benefits. His fiancé got pregnant, they wanted a kid, can you blame them? His and her job didn't earn enough for basic comfortable living necessities - The unproductive fucks who owned the apartment complex made out like bandits on his hard earned dollar by doing nothing more than owning a slum property -- We fixed shit ourselves because they took so long to get anything done, despite being payed hundreds of dollars a month -- We payed our own electricity and water. So, to get out of the ghetto he started selling pot. He made more money selling weed in the lazy afternoon than he made all day slaving away at work. He didn't sell to kids, he was no monster, just making ends-meat and bring a bit of relaxation and joy to the harsh world through cheap recreational drugs... He eventually stopped selling when he saved enough for a down payment on a small house not far away, still in the slums, and they both worked two jobs to raise their kid and pay the mortgage.
At the same time I was an electrician running entire jobsites for my rich boss, but also barely able to afford my rent in the slum. It's mostly folks trying and failing to make an honest living at the bottom of society, being productive as fuck in labor, while the minority rich keep getting richer and being unproductive. I managed to scrimp and save up enough living off of grilled cheese and ramen noodles to start my own business and escape that hell.
Take your perverse classist shit and shove it where the work don't shine. My laborers making barely above minimum wage payed 1/3 of their paycheck in taxes, while the profit even a small business owner can reap is vastly disproportionate to the effort they put in. My laborers would have to choose paycheck to paycheck if they could afford insurance, and the majority could not afford it. The longer the business runs, the less work I had to do, but the more money I'm capable of making off all those underlings' labor. Sure, they didn't start the damn company, but as a business owner, I'm not being fucking productive -- Not nearly as productive as the many laborers I'm capitalizing on. Fortunately, I don't think like dumb folks like you do. Why should I get a tax break and pay a mere fraction of a percent of what my employees pay in taxes?! I say lower the tax at the bottom, and INCREASE the taxes of the folks with the money at the top you say are being "productive" by not doing shit but shuffling papers and numbers around and making fortunes.
You see, this is where your world view is so fucking slanted it's ridiculous. You're blinded by your own place in society. I've actually experienced the full social standing gamut. Let me tell you how it is: Here I was, nice new car, business finally turning a steady profit, starting to be able to afford many luxuries I couldn't dream of working under someone else, and I give my employees little raises and bonuses for good work, but I saw how much more profit I pulled in by capitalizing on the real productive majority of workers at the bottom. I had to make a choice. I could make mad bank for myself, or increase the laborer's wages above what I was bringing in myself in those early days of hard physical labor. It was easy to make, because I'm a sensible human being, not an amoral monster. I realized that as time went on I owed less and less of my success to my own effort, and more to the skilled workers under me. I realized that minimum wage is a fucking joke! I know because I've lived on that, or even less! You can't raise a family on minimum wage. Paying just above minimum wage is every bit as ridiculous. I had to suffer that nonsense, but I'd be damned if my workers would have to do the same while I mad out like a bandit being a desk-jockey Capitalist.
Eventually the mob eats and chases away the part of the society that actually is productive and pays for all of this conspicuous consumption by the mob and then the society is doomed to failure because of the failing economy. So the principles are the same for anything else that concerns rule of law - equal justice under the law, privacy from government intrusion, transparency of government in the first place. ALL democracies are destined to failure, that is not an option, it's an inevitable consequence of the rule of mob.
No you fool! It's not Democracies, but All Unchecked Power that is doomed to fail! Be it Communism or Capitalism that's run amok, funneling power and money to the top of society -- That framework is doomed to fail. Most businesses are happy to pay their customers as little as fucking possible -- Hell, the stock market demands growth, a steady valuation is considered bad stock, only increase is good. You can't reach an optimal size and churn out a steady profit, no you've got to grow like a cancer and overextend yourself until death, causing more churn in the labor pool so workers can compete over jobs for less wages... As a publicly traded company you're practically forced to treat the actual productive lower status members of society who do all the damn labor as if they're trash. As a corporation removed from all morals there's pressure and incentive to take as much money and production from the bottom of the chain, and funnel it upwards to ever staggering heights of the truly unproductive "owners". This is untenable! Fortunately, I stayed private, so as not to be beholden to the amoral demands of money hungry leaches, who are EVEN LESS PRODUCTIVE, because they literally shuffle 1's and 0's to make all their returns on "investment" -- What kind of crack are you smoking that lets you think that having enough wealth to shuffle bits and accumulate wealth at next to no tax burden is fucking productive, and that it's the laborers who afford the rich capitalists this luxury which are being unproductive?! YOU'RE DRINKING YOUR OWN KOOL AID. Where does the wealth come from when you shuffle bits in the stock market? Inflation and Speculation -- Ultimately the laboring folks at the bottom of the market pay that price.
How can you stand to look at the huge mega-rich corporations getting huge bail-outs and golden parachutes, and paying so fucking little in taxes due to the magic of tax laws bought and paid-for by the same? How can you look at the effects of deregulation, in massive risks and outright lies to lenders and borrowers that the banking industry did to cause the mortgage crisis, and say it was the fucking "mob" that caused the economy to fail? How can you see that shit, and think it's the majority of at the bottom that are destroying the economy?
The economy thrives when everyone spends. When you siphon up so much wealth from the bottom, then middle classes, into the pocket books of the minority of capitalists at the top of the economy such that the MAJORITY of people actually being productive at the bottom can no longer spend. THAT'S what causes an economy to fail. You're right off your rocker if you think that unchecked government spending isn't to blame for the NSA's huge dystopian spying infrastructure. This is an example of so much power and wealth at the top that they are no longer accountable to the majority at the bottom. FOOL! It's the opposite of what you're railing about.
That's why to keep working the system is supposed to set those types of feelings and desires aside and concentrate on constantly and vigilantly protecting the rule of law, equality before law, equality of opportunity by providing equal application of law, prevention of discrimination by the mob, by the government. Once those concepts are breached, the society is on the path to self destruction and unfortunately I have never found an example in history where the society actually stopped short of destroying itself this way once it became democratic, AFAIC history shows that the destruction is imminent.
Equality under law would be the same tax rate at the top of society as at the bottom, eh? Yeah, then we could reduce the tax on the MAJORITY at the bottom who are doing the MAJORITY of the work. As a business owner I made the choice to be half as rich as I could be, to take in half as much in profit. I made the only sane moral choice and decided to give my workers better working conditions, higher pay, health care. I enriched their lives. Guess what? The business's productivity increased! Turns out if you're willing to pay for better work, the workers will do better work! The majority of workers at the bottom of the totem poll didn't feel like they were working a shit job for low pay. They got paid more and started giving a damn about the quality of their work -- Contrast this with just demanding quality and efficiency and granting them no real incentive, like wall-mart or most any other publicly traded company.
In the end my "sacrifice" of profit to improve my worker's lives had little to no effect on my life. Turns out, as you increase wealth there's a point where you spend less of it as a percentage to live ever more comfortable lives. "Trickle Down Economics" is a fucking farce. I was just as comfortable in my life with less profit, but the workers gained immensely more benefit to their lives in relation. I was a sane rational business owner, and my company was productive as a whole. That elitism shite you're spouting is retarding, in every sense of the word -- Can you even think for yourself? Can you form an idea based on actual fucking experience and observation? I fucking dare you to. I saw that my business was like a second family -- We were a single unit. We all benefit together, or die together. I was not an insane amoral capitalist beholden only to profit for the sake of profit like those publicly traded companies on the stock market. I had incentive to make the business survive, even in more troubling times -- I couldn't just shuffle numbers and ditch the company to be part of another more successful business at a whim.
It was those greedy slavering unproductive rich bastards in the mortgage and finance industry that destroyed the housing industry, and my construction business by proxy. Those ones you called "productive" were the least productive of all. With their bought and paid for politicians they won deregulation and then destroyed the stability of lives by approving high risk loans for the short term chance to make a fast buck -- Screw the long term repercussions, there won't be any if you're wearing a golden parachute. It was the productive majority suffering at the hands of the rich unproductive minority that caused the economic collapse, you fucking IDIOT. The exact opposite of the drivel you've spouted.
For the truth on how we all got into the bigger and bigger mess we're in right now, educate yourself with this video.
P.S. A two party system is NOT a democracy.
