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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Old Boothby who wrote (980482)11/9/2016 3:21:01 PM
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My entire argument is based on my knowledge of politics and social science and what allows societies to function best for the good of all.

Do you not understand that democracy requires everybody to give up a little freedom? You don't have the freedom to go through a red light, or stop sign. Does that bother you? When you build a house you have toobey the building codes? Does that bother you? You have to pay a monthly fee for water and sewer and taxes to have a local government so they can hire firemen, policemen and schoolteachers. Does that bother you?

The way democracy is set up, and there is no better system that I know of, is that people get together and elect representatives who figure out what sorts of rules and regulations they want to have so that their community can function well. Most cities have a city government and a city Council. Can you imagine any large city functioning without a city government?

I don't know what sort of government you have in mind, but I never studied it, nor have I heard of it in all my years at the University or working in government and in politics.

Your entire argument is predicated on the notion that one person has the obligation to provide freebies to another person. That is the core flaw in logic from those on your side of the political spectrum. All forms of socialism, communism, fascism, and egalitarianism are wrong, because all curtail freedom.
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