Ask HN: Who do you support for president of the USA and why?
Pretty simple questions which I haven't seen asked here before. The 2012 election is almost upon us and I am curious to see everyone's opinions about all the candidates.
"I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people."
A guy who said that was a great U.S. President, the kind of you desperately need right now, but in today's political climate, he would be eaten alive.
I am sure the 'human rights' movement doomed the democracy as we know it (of course i don't mean that women or blacks should not vote, i mean that during that process of 'empowerment', some other regulation should have been put in place to make sure public funds-dependent people, net recipients from the government, will not vote). Now it is too late - anyone who plans to put these limits in place will need the votes of that people to come to power, and they won't vote for him -> this is a chicken-and-egg problem which could be fixed only through (seemingly inevitable) collapse of society, period of dictatorship, and then restoration of refurbished democracy.