Democracy? In America?

Alexis DeToquaville wrote about the state of 
democracy in America over a hundred years ago.  
Our situation has not improved.  In Marx's 
arguement for communism he supposed that man was 
inherently evil.  Jefferson, a great proponent 
of true democracy, supposed that man was 
inherently good.  Why must either one of them 
be right.  They both make excellent points but 
depend on a higher ruling as to the nature of man.  
Most people see the world in ones, or twos, but I 
see the world in threes.  

You can take the right path, the wrong path, or 
take no path at all.  That lack of a path is what 
I believe that Bhudda followed to enlightenment.  
It is also evident in the concept of time.  You 
can be lost in the past, searching for the future, 
or just enjoying the present.  But to my point, 
why must man be inherently good or evil.  If that 
be the case, we need find the middle ground between 
Jefferson's democracy and Marx's communism to have 
the best form of government.  This is no Martin 
Luther struck by lightning revelation, but a strong 
point none the less.  I think the time we are in 
is allowing the waves of the dialectic to become 
to strong and it will bring about destruction of 
our way of life.  We need to find a meshing rather 
than a conflict, if that is possible.

Can modern man aspire to true democracy.  It has 
been said that true democracy cannot function in a 
large group, but I argue, I think that with the 
communication of today, we can aspire to true 
democracy.  That is the problem, not man's nature, 
but a lack of communication and respect.

So in closing, we should all learn to communicate 
and respect each other on our way to a 
democommunist state.

f.

comments welcome