Originally Posted By: L. Brown
...nothing you've said to this point is of any real value at all, unless you're willing to get behind A SPECIFIC PLAN. So...tell us which of the plans you've reviewed in detail you like best. Tell us why it's the best of the bunch. Then tell us why you think it will work well for the United States. Finally, tell us how much it's going to cost.


It's a good thing John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and their associates didn't have someone like this yapping incessantly at their heels when they were trying to sell the CONCEPT of democracy in America. In 1776 they lacked a SPECIFIC PLAN, couldn't explain how it would work, certainly had no notion of the eventual cost. And they didn't even have the luxury of successful examples to emulate. Even so, what they said to that point had very 'real value.'

Of course, a lot of the naysayers to democracy held back, whining that "the CONCEPT may be okay, but the devil is in the details." Most contributed nothing to build on. Many ran away, preferring to remain subjects of an oppressive regime.

Fortunately, men who believed in the CONCEPT ignored the naysayers and worked out a lot of the details over the ensuing years. But the SPECIFIC PLAN remains imperfect - we're still working on it today. And we still can't tell you the cost, for some of it will be paid in blood by future generations.

Timid men are always afraid to move from a familiar position, regardless of its disadvantages, and demand to be spoon-fed reassurance before daring to change anything.

Last edited by jack maloney; 02/28/08 10:06 PM.
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