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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (244199)2/7/2014 8:19:44 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541991
 
Are you saying civil disobedience is a part of democracy?

That's actually a very good question, Steve. While it's true that civil disobedience has long been a part of American political protest--Martin Luther King is only the most recent, prominent example--that doesn't answer the question as to whether it's a part of democracy. Like democracy, civil disobedience has a long history and a global one at that. I'm sure you know about Ghandi's contribution to it.

It's also important to note that it's civil disobedience. It's meant to be nonviolent. And it intends to accomplish its aims as such. Your illustration of the guns is not civil disobedience.

We vote for that person that gives us the most - be it food stamps or ethanol subsidies. Nobody votes for the environment. Which in the long term, of course, is maybe our most important vote.

Not really. Many of us vote against our own individual interest, at least narrowly construed. We vote for a much stronger and wider national social safety net, for better schools across the country, for better general healthcare that cares for the poor and keeps others from becoming poor because of healthcare costs, and we vote for the environment in so far as that option appears on the ballot. So here I completely disagree. Lots of folks vote that way.
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