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Originally posted by NightFlight
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Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
reply to post by Agent_USA_Supporter
If they adopt these measures and are successful against Ron Paul then you know democracy has utterly failed in America.
Although the 2000 election cycle already did a good job confirming this.
Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
We go about the world, fighting to spread democracy and tell them how to live, but we really don’t have a democratic system… The laws have been made to make it very difficult, because the Republicans and the Democrats aren’t looking for the competition, they want to monopolize it.
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. As a result, Americans have been conditioned to accept the word "democracy" as a synonym for freedom, and thus to believe that democracy is unquestionably good.
The emphasis on democracy in our modern political discourse has no historical or Constitutional basis. Yet we have become obsessed with democracy, as though any government action would be permissible if a majority of voters simply approved of it.
Our country is not a democracy. Our nation was founded as a Constitutionally limited republic, as any grammar school child knew just a few decades ago.
Originally posted by schuyler
Originally posted by NightFlight
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Absolutely right on. This is exactly what I am talking about. If Ron Paul's supporters continue to act like spoiled children, they will continue to be treated like spoiled children.
I refer to the boorish behavior of the Ron Paul idiots who repeatedly disregarded clear instructions to tone down the lengthy, and at times inappropriate, applause. Then these same fools crossed a line and actually booed a Republican candidate who was speaking.
Originally posted by Blaine91555
I refer to the boorish behavior of the Ron Paul idiots who repeatedly disregarded clear instructions to tone down the lengthy, and at times inappropriate, applause. Then these same fools crossed a line and actually booed a Republican candidate who was speaking.
That is true. I wonder why Paul supporters don't understand they harm their hero by acting like children. Why not help him get elected instead of making it appear he is a nut magnet?
They don't need to ban anyone, but the supporters need to grow the hell up.
That is true. I wonder why Paul supporters don't understand they harm their hero by acting like children. Why not help him get elected instead of making it appear he is a nut magnet?
They don't need to ban anyone, but the supporters need to grow the hell up.