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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (26847)8/19/2006 1:56:03 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 543362
 
If we are going to try to replace tyrannies, we must stop confusing DEMOCRACY with FREEDOM. We must make clear that the principle we support is not the unlimited rule of the majority, but the inalienable rights of the individual. Empowering killers who happen to be democratically elected does not advance the cause of FREEDOM--it destroys it.

Unfortunately, AFAIK, the only way to protect FREEDOM is through a majority of the population supporting the idea, i.e. freedom exits only in suitable democracies. Mr. Schwartz, while usefully pointing out the distinctions between the two words, failed to advance any ideas of how to accomplish his goals.
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