I Am Offended

I said I was done talking about your ridiculous relation between this topic and the topic of the troops so I will not bother rebutting your statement on that.

Not only is your understanding of government and anarchism seriously lacking but you are advocating oppression under the guise of "democracy".

I do not have a problem with a person holding spiritual beliefs. That is none of my business.

What we are talking about here is the aplication of religious beliefs onto socie... (more »)

de·moc·ra·cy   [dih-mok-ruh-see]  Show IPAnoun, plural -cies.1.government by the people; a form of government inwhich the supreme power is vested in the people andexercised directly by them or by their elected agents under afree electoral system.

In other words, a democracy ... (more »)

*sigh* I really don't know where to start with this one. First, I'd like to say that your whole argument depends on the logical falacy of appeal to authority and the status quo.

You are also under the delusion that we are a democracy. We are not. We are a capitalist democratic republic.

You could not be more incorrect. Socialism IS democracy. Socialism is the extension of democracy to the economy.

Maybe I worded my sentence so it was hard to understand. I do not have a pr... (more »)

1) I don't understand your meaning of "status quo" in this sense, however how is "appeal to authority" a logical fallacy?  It's a stance, that doesn't mean it's illogical.

Yes we are a capitalist-democratic republic, no matter what the name is the system of power still remains in the fact that the common people are represented by elected agents and that the common people's interests are expressed in our government.

I'm not sure about all the diff... (more »)

If I may...

The common people's interests are merely talked about. Politicians will pretend to have plans to act on people's interests in order to win elections. After that point, it is solely up to their discretion what happens (at least until the next election). The president has the power of executive order which carries the effect of the law.

Every society needs people of "ethical opinions that are not shared by the general population." If all of those people left the countr... (more »)

If I may...

The common people's interests are merely talked about. Politicians will pretend to have plans to act on people's interests in order to win elections. After that point, it is solely up to their discretion what happens (at least until the next election). The president has the power of executive order which carries the effect of the law.

Every society needs people of "ethical opinions that are not shared by the general population." If all of those people left the ... (more »)

AgentOrange:

I hear people talk about manipulative politicians not caring about people all the time.  But I fail to see how anybody actually knows that.  It seems like a bunch of stereotyping to me.  I think it's much more likely that the majority of politicians are misguided do-gooders than scheming, rich people.

I agree that every country needs ethical opinions that are not shared by the majority.  However I believe this c... (more »)

Marxism--noun the system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a so... (more »)