Re: Democracy in America…
Reply #89 –
You know, I've seen you lambaste Sang because of his belief in utopias run by ever expanding and ever more benevolent governments. Now I see you, Oak, believe in a utopia brought about by smaller government that, somehow, isn't corrupt.
I have two words to say to that. Stone Park. Stone Park is a village about ten miles from where I live, reputedly bought and paid for by the mob, which gets to do whatever it pleases in the sin-strip along Mannheim Road. It's cleaned up some from what it was, but the stretch from Lake Street to Grand Avenue has long been notorious for being a place with bars, sleazy hotels, girls of questionable repute and you can probably get illegal drugs if you know who to ask.
Small government? It doesn't get much smaller than village government, especially in a non-home rule town.