{"id":8090,"date":"2015-03-07T21:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T03:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:18:24","slug":"mp3-of-elective-dictatorship-interview-on-al-korelin-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/07\/mp3-of-elective-dictatorship-interview-on-al-korelin-show\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 of Elective Dictatorship Interview on Al Korelin Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a jovial chat with <strong>Al Korelin<\/strong>, the host of the hardline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kereport.com\/\">Korelin Economic Report<\/a>, in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kereport.com\/2015\/03\/07\/politics-middle-east-company-updates\/\">weekend report<\/a>\u00a0on the debility of contemporary democracy.\u00a0 Here are a few of my comments:<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;The system that we now have is an elective dictatorship in which the president can dictate almost as much as he pleases and keep all kinds of secrets. We don&#8217;t find out until decades later what he actually did &#8211; especially on foreign policy. This is the mirror image of what the Founding Fathers expected.\u00a0 The whole purpose of the Constitution was to bind the government &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t work that way. Instead, the government is finding ever new ways to\u00a0bind the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;Both parties are in favor of big government &#8211; both are in favor of perpetuating the vast majority of the status quo &#8211; both\u00a0are in favor of championing the rights of the government over American citizens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;Most of the 2016 candidates are offering the same hokum that the current president and previous president offered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*&#8221;It was appalling that so many Americans thought that the &#8216;hope and change&#8217; mantra in 2008 would make a huge difference in Washington. 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