It's finally here: the perpetual campaign. As our Presidential campaign cycles get longer and longer, and as midterm posturing begins on Election night, we have enough to worry about when it comes to long campaign seasons. But there is another addition to the campaign family: issue campaigning. This is not totally new, but my guess is that it is about to become more prevalent. Social Security, Judicial Nominees, Gay Marriage---all of these issues are becoming campaign issues, that is, they issues that the Administration, members of Congress, and Governors are flying about the country "campaigning for," pushing popular support upward for whatever their position is on the matter.
This is a disaster for our system of government. The Republic has been dying for about a half-century, with more democracy (the bad kind) taking root in the United States. The initial attacks on the Republic came in the form of the 16th & 17th Amendments, as well as the 18th but it was fortunately repealed. The advent of information technology and instant news has allowed the transformation from Republic to Democracy to be complete. Now the majority will rule without protecting the rights of the minority, and they will vote themselves whatever portion of the public treasury that they want. Indeed, Social Security and Medicare are the perfect examples of this, and our nation will crumble as a result.
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