
In 1979, the children’s educational television series Schoolhouse Rock! broadcast a now-classic episode titled “Three Ring Government” about the three branches of the U.S. government — executive, legislative and judicial.
“No one part can be more powerful than the other,” proclaimed the narrator, who explains that our system of government comes with “checks and balances” — each branch watches the other so no one becomes tyrannical.
The episode is quite entertaining, but facile. In truth our government is more like a three-ring circus — one that makes a mockery of democracy.
In reality the system of “checks and balances” guards against the power of the people.
Local Officials Block Direct Democracy
Community Rights Lane County, an all-volunteer community rights group in Oregon, has been attempting to challenge decades-long spraying of toxic herbicides on forest ecosystems by helicopter, a practice that spreads poison indiscriminately […]
It seems as if our country is being run by the MAFIA, not the voters!
These behaviors are a direct consequence of living in a non-representative Republic.