If You're Not At The Table
You're On The Menu.
Mr. Jefferson
So here (link) is Kenneth Rogoff with his take on the democractic failure that was the Brexit vote. And below is Mr. Jefferson's response.
"Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who
fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the
higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them,
cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise
depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every
one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call
them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans
and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the
same parties still and pursue the same object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats
is the true one expressing the essence of all." --Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee,
1824.
Wonder what he meant exactly by "constitutions", how he envisioned that.
