10-07-2020, 01:31 PM
** 07-Oct-2020 World View: The US Constitution and Confucianism
My research has led me to believe that a lot of the credit for the
impressive stability of the United States has to do with the
brilliance of the US Constitution. For my Iran book, I traced the
history of national constitutions, leading to Iran's Constitutional
Revolution in the 1900s decade, and I really began to grasp how
brilliant the US Constitution is. Thanks to the Constitution, the US
has survived multiple "constitutional crises," as well as the Civil
War and other wars, and is still a functioning constitutional
democracy.
In another message you refer to Trump as "despotic," which is the
usual idiotic silliness from people like you who hate the 63 million
Tea Partiers and Trump supporters. Trump has stayed well within the
lines of the US Constitution, including court decisions, so he isn't
"despotic" at all. But, thanks to the Constitution, he's survived the
huge Russia hoax, the special prosecutor hoax, the impeachment hoax,
and so forth. As he himself has pointed out, he must be the most
honest and effective politician in the history of the world to have
survived all that.
Just yesterday, the handwritten notes of the sleazy John Brennan were
released, proving that Obama was in on the illegal spying and hoaxes.
This is actually a big bombshell, but you wouldn't have a clue about
that, since CNN carefully avoids reporting news like that to people
like you, lest you get confused about whom to hate. Better for you to
stay completely in the dark.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/06/bre...operation/
So this year the Democrats are resorting to fascist antifa-blm
violence in cities across the country, threats to overwhelm the
election with mail-in ballots, threats to pack the Supreme Court, and
anything else they can do to destroy the Constitutional government
that has protected the loathsome Tea Partiers from the Democrats.
Look what's happening this week in Kyrgyzstan. One side sabotaged the
election, just as the Democrats are trying to do here, but
Kyrgyzstan's constitution doesn't have the checks and balances of the
US Constitution, and the government is in collapse, and the election
will have to be rerun. It's a great lesson.
The US Constitution has numerous checks and balances designed to make
sure that elections produce a result. These include the Electoral
College and various rules to be applied if there's no election result.
My point is that by January or February of next year, I expect that
the Constitutional process will produce a president to take office.
Maybe it will be Trump, maybe it will be Biden. But there will be a
president. That's what I mean by "impressive stability." There are
few, if any, other countries in the world that could say the same
thing.
This is a new area of analysis for me, following on my research on
China and Vietnam. I've found it appalling that the CCP has made one
incredibly stupid decision after another since Mao came to power, and
you have to wonder why that keeps happening. But now I see the same
kind of stupidity taking place historically in Vietnam's Confucian
governments, and I realize that it's Confucianism that's a cancer that
causes the repeated destruction and self-destruction of these
governments.
The contrast is between the cancer of Confucianism and the brilliance
of the US Constitutions, with its system of checks and balances that
prevents things similar to the "Great Leap Forward" in America. I
used the word "Democracy" because the Chinese Communists themselves
use the word democracy as the ideological evil whose only purpose is
to destroy the CCP -- i.e., Chinese Confucianism. But there are so
many destructive things about Chinese Confucianism that a better
contrast will have to be found. What I need is a word that captures
the essence of the Constitution's system of checks and balances as a
contrast to Confucianism. The word "democracy" is close, but not
quite right.
(10-02-2020, 04:44 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > If one is to compare the United States to all the empires of the
> past, then the United States is now impressive influence, power,
> stability, and prosperity. The United States may not have be an
> empire in the sense of having a monarch claiming to be more than a
> king. Call it (at best) an Empire of Liberty. Its territorial
> expansion effectively ended about 120 years ago. It has a high
> win-loss record. Aggressive powers that have thought the Unite
> States soft and decadent find themselves facing an
> exhaust-and-kill strategy. If it finds its own weakness it tends
> to self-correct.
> The President of the United States is rarely around long enough to
> become a doddering old man or to develop the madness of absolute
> power. Competitve elections prove the right way to deal with
> politicians becoming too big for their breeches.
My research has led me to believe that a lot of the credit for the
impressive stability of the United States has to do with the
brilliance of the US Constitution. For my Iran book, I traced the
history of national constitutions, leading to Iran's Constitutional
Revolution in the 1900s decade, and I really began to grasp how
brilliant the US Constitution is. Thanks to the Constitution, the US
has survived multiple "constitutional crises," as well as the Civil
War and other wars, and is still a functioning constitutional
democracy.
In another message you refer to Trump as "despotic," which is the
usual idiotic silliness from people like you who hate the 63 million
Tea Partiers and Trump supporters. Trump has stayed well within the
lines of the US Constitution, including court decisions, so he isn't
"despotic" at all. But, thanks to the Constitution, he's survived the
huge Russia hoax, the special prosecutor hoax, the impeachment hoax,
and so forth. As he himself has pointed out, he must be the most
honest and effective politician in the history of the world to have
survived all that.
Just yesterday, the handwritten notes of the sleazy John Brennan were
released, proving that Obama was in on the illegal spying and hoaxes.
This is actually a big bombshell, but you wouldn't have a clue about
that, since CNN carefully avoids reporting news like that to people
like you, lest you get confused about whom to hate. Better for you to
stay completely in the dark.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/06/bre...operation/
So this year the Democrats are resorting to fascist antifa-blm
violence in cities across the country, threats to overwhelm the
election with mail-in ballots, threats to pack the Supreme Court, and
anything else they can do to destroy the Constitutional government
that has protected the loathsome Tea Partiers from the Democrats.
Look what's happening this week in Kyrgyzstan. One side sabotaged the
election, just as the Democrats are trying to do here, but
Kyrgyzstan's constitution doesn't have the checks and balances of the
US Constitution, and the government is in collapse, and the election
will have to be rerun. It's a great lesson.
The US Constitution has numerous checks and balances designed to make
sure that elections produce a result. These include the Electoral
College and various rules to be applied if there's no election result.
My point is that by January or February of next year, I expect that
the Constitutional process will produce a president to take office.
Maybe it will be Trump, maybe it will be Biden. But there will be a
president. That's what I mean by "impressive stability." There are
few, if any, other countries in the world that could say the same
thing.
(10-02-2020, 01:38 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: > ** 02-Oct-2020 World View: Rise and fall of empires
> Getting back to the original subject, what I call the "Western
> Civilization Empire," starting from ancient Athens and Crete, has
> succeeded because it's based on the core principle of Democracy.
> It has spawned sub-empires over the centuries, but in one form or
> another this empire will continue to lead the world, because only
> Democracy is capable of governing empires.
(10-07-2020, 08:26 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: > The problem with this theory is that Eastern civilization was more
> advanced from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance.
> Democracy is really only an advantage in the gunpowder age, when
> you win wars with large numbers of minimally armed troops that you
> only trust because they have a stake in your government.
> That's going to change in the next century or so as war shifts to
> nuclear weapons.
This is a new area of analysis for me, following on my research on
China and Vietnam. I've found it appalling that the CCP has made one
incredibly stupid decision after another since Mao came to power, and
you have to wonder why that keeps happening. But now I see the same
kind of stupidity taking place historically in Vietnam's Confucian
governments, and I realize that it's Confucianism that's a cancer that
causes the repeated destruction and self-destruction of these
governments.
The contrast is between the cancer of Confucianism and the brilliance
of the US Constitutions, with its system of checks and balances that
prevents things similar to the "Great Leap Forward" in America. I
used the word "Democracy" because the Chinese Communists themselves
use the word democracy as the ideological evil whose only purpose is
to destroy the CCP -- i.e., Chinese Confucianism. But there are so
many destructive things about Chinese Confucianism that a better
contrast will have to be found. What I need is a word that captures
the essence of the Constitution's system of checks and balances as a
contrast to Confucianism. The word "democracy" is close, but not
quite right.
