DEMOCRACY ANYONE?

    I remember reading the statement that Democracy was the worst government ever - until it was compared to all the others. It has many weak points where the vicious and the power hungry can take advantage and stifle democracy and even destroy it altogether. Yet democracy has an inner resilience and an innate attraction to thinking mankind and will not be defeated. It is that which we must keep in mind in these perilous times. 
     Theodore Roosevelt stated that "Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience." We are quickly approaching that point both here in the country and here in the Village.
          How many times do we find that one ruthless and immoral person, hungry for power, uses the democratic practices in place to get into a position of power and then refuse to give that power up and instead, mercilessly, manipulates all people and actions to insure his permanent position of power and the demise of democracy in that particular entity.
     We see that all over the world, especially in African countries and in Arab countries especially during the so called Arab Spring where there is so much tribal and clan warfare and when a democratic election is held, the winner then takes advantage of the results to insure his permanent seat and cancels all elections. It is most telling that many of these "democratic" countries all include the designation 'Democratic Republic or Country...."  when they are the furthest thing from it.
     We here in CV are a small entity, not important to the survival of the world or even to the survival of our country. Yet we too are being subjected to a thief of democracy, one who uses his elected position to turn it into a position for life and who has worked very hard and very underhandedly to insure that he indeed remains in power. Rules are changed and discarded. He instigates votes until he gets term limits overturned. He restricts the people of UCO to an ever narrowing group of people, people who also long for a position to validate their lives, have a pinch of power, think they are of the power elite, people who have ceded their souls and their minds and given up free thought and  any and all concern for their fellow residents. Yes there is an exception here and there, but not enough, not nearly enough.
     All manner of media is suppressed, be it the old newspaper now deemed a rag, or meetings and assemblies, permission to place flyers in the Clubhouse,  and denied any and all information re delegates to the DA in order to pass on unbiased information or in fact any information that is deemed contrary to that of David Israel.
     All information that should be able to be accessed is blocked. Now there is a new step or two that will further limit democracy here. Any proposal needs to be accompanied by 59 delegate signatures from 59 different associations and guess what? How is anyone to know who these delegates are since their names are kept secret! Wish the files would have been kept  as secret from the Russians!! And why the new limitation on signatures? Why must they be from different associations, particularly harsh on any progress here in the Village when most of the delegates are away and quorum is often not obtained? The game is fixed from the beginning and even should these onerous conditions be met, the Advisory or officers or Executive Bd. loaded with the same people, can kill it off and leave the DA with their mouths wide open.
     David Israel is too afraid to allow true democracy to flourish here for he knows there is a growing opposition to him, a growing dislike of his behavior, of his fast and loose signatures on miserable contracts for the Village, his abominable behavior and attitude towards any who are not his zombies. Time for this man to go, ASAP. Must we all be involved with lawyers and court costs and shame in front of the world?
     That shame in front of the world is what we Americans now have and all due to the vile presence of Trump in the Oval Office. He is eminently unfit for office, mentally unbalanced or worse, unprepared and operating on a juvenile level which is only topped when there is cheating on taxes or profits to be gained for him and his. He is a man who speaks as a child as in some country's behavior is "very, very bad". Perhaps, but there are better and more descriptive language terms and words to use. 
     He has brought in new swamp critters who have less than zero connections to the people of the country, people with enough money to survive no matter what, who have their own gold plated medical plan, people who bossed industry, but are not fit to boss a government and a new Judge in the Supreme Court who has never met a restrictive law he does not like nor a woman who deserves rights and control over her own body. He buddies with Clarence Thomas, another man who should never have been allowed to even walk in the hallways of the Supreme Court! Under his administration there is again rampant discrimination as to gender pay in the White House, with women getting far, far less than men and look what men these are!!!
    Democracy and the pillars of it are being attacked on a daily basis by the very ones who should be defending it. Accusations against the judiciary, threats to the legislative branch and a lack of staffing, and daily attacks on the press and all media - just where do we expect this to end. Today we are hoping that the Supreme Court recognizes family relationships such as grandparents and grandchildren, and others and limits the travel ban restrictions. A President Pence would not be much of an improvement but at least he has some inkling of mature adult behavior! And if necessary, if we have to go further in our defense of democracy here in  America, then we will so do, until we get to a governmental official who is ready, willing and able to defend and uphold the democratic principles of our country. If we do not ..... you fill in the blanks.
     We need to have a President who pals up with other democracies and not only show admiration for dictators and right leaning rulers. We need a person who knows and understands that we must stick by our friends for if not, at a time when we need them they will not be there and who can blame them and that time is nigh upon us.
     We need to unite against Vladimir Putin and his buddies and develop methods to counteract their poisonous intrusion into our very heart of the system, pure voting, untainted by foreign interference or any other trickery. We need to be able to answer and withstand their implied an overt threats as they are now doing ahead of a meeting. We need to get rid of hypocrites such as the people of Hobby Lobby who cannot tolerate the thought of freedom of choice, but who can easily do business with a massive amount of stolen artifacts! So much for morality!
     Democracy is hard earned, hard to achieve and even more difficult to maintain. But it is the best choice we have. Do not allow Trump and his buddies to take over the country or place it in imminent danger and do not allow idiots who think the Declaration of Independence is fomenting rebellion!! It did once, true, but what it is doing now is reminding all of what we have here, what was fought for and what needs to remain in existence. And as for us here in CV - let us begin by the uprooting of the dictator Israel for he is no friend to democracy and no friend to the residents of the Village. Join together and let us rid ourselves of all dictators and wannabes. Let us use the law as a tool for ourselves and for the right path.