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His lips are moving.
I think that democracy is not 'majority rule' as so many politicians (and economists) lead people into believing. Democracy is a method by which innocent people endeavor to avoid becoming victims.
Example:
“Throw the bums out.”
That is a phrase that isn’t meant to convey a violent and aggressive attack upon the bum in question, rather, the democratic idea was (and is) to take away the bums license to lead.
The bum lied.
The bum burned down a church full of babies, toddlers, children, women, men, old men and women AFTER experimenting on them.
So…take away the bums license to lead (torture and mass murder).
The problem with democracy is its inherent passivity in the face of mortal peril that may come in the form of a mushroom cloud (I’m not reading from a script) or in the form of a terrorist pretending to be spreading democracy.
True practitioners of the democratic ideal (or universal law theorists = not to be confused with conspiracy theorist) are not necessarily pacifists when it does come down to the enemy being literally at the gate. Some of us own guns and know how to use them.
The ideal (democratic, republic, voluntary association, rule of law types) is to exhaust the peaceful means before resorting to the defensive violent means.
Call the ‘problem’ a thin blue line between knowing and doing the right thing peacefully before having to do the right thing violently (defensively) and miss the point.
The problem will always be torturing mass murderers because they lie.
Imagine requiring a lie detector test running live during the debates?
Imagine a meter moving from HUGE lie on the left to compete accuracy on the RIGHT.
Is the RIGHT right?
Is the left left out?
I think it is well past time for honest productive people to agree to something – anything.
So long as we don't agree to torture and mass murder each other for profit.
That isn't right.