Saving American Democracy

Three words: Restrict the Franchise.

Even John Stuart Mill in On Liberty said those who are recipients of government largess--the Victorian way of saying on the dole--should forgo their voting privileges. Any right to vote in the Contitution? Not that I see.

Check out this wonderful (second) paragraph on the topic by C.J. Maloney's Making Democracy Safe for the World:

Yet, even when things look hopeless and all recorded history tells us our democracy is doomed, that's no excuse to give up the ghost. Even in the darkest of times people still give it their best because hope springs eternal, and as a great American once asked in another time of trouble, "was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor"? Hell, no, it wasn't, and there is still time to save our democracy, but to do so we must  remove the millstones that hang about our system's neck--we must restrict the franchise. Caroline Baum recently noted, "when half the population is on the receiving end of government programs and has no skin in the cost, they will encourage their elected representatives to vote 'yes' on every new benefit that comes down the pike." That, right there, is the root of America's overriding problem: our future-crushing, insurmountable fiscal deficits.

You mean the 84 percent of lifetime earnings children born today will need to pay in order to pay for the clearly unsustainable entitlement programs?