Great video on Government

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Comment by Ryan Miller on August 21, 2009 at 6:54pm

I think that it is a good place to start and that a lot of people don't understand our system, or how it compares to other systems out there. I liked it enough to pass it on in hopes that anyone who watches it would possibly look into learning more. Thank you for the comments and suggestions after all, as long as we can speak freely, however short that time might remain we should educate people as best we can and debate the topics placed before us to keep this county free and safe. God bless the U.S.A

Comment by Action Jeans on August 21, 2009 at 2:20am

Leaves a lot of questions though, doesn't it? Like what exactly is the "right amount of government". With the example of the Roman republic, it doesn't really offer any solutions for the creeping corruption that led to its collapse. By the logic of the video, as easily as it combined or dismissed all but two possible forms of government, you could argue that based on the Roman example, even a republic is doomed to eventually dissolve into oligarchy.

Seems to me the real enemy of effective government is always corruption, no matter what system is in place. The best we can do is to set up the kind of constitutional government that we have, with checks and balances and the provision that we are never static but forever becoming a "more perfect union", with our Constitution itself being a malleable document.

The video put things in very simple and easy to understand terms, perhaps to the point of oversimplifying a very complex topic and glossing over some important ideas. I especially don't think it supported the argument that communism and Nazism fall on the same end of the political spectrum very well at all.

Definitely worth watching though.

Comment by mark on August 21, 2009 at 12:47am

Ryan Great video dude