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To: koan who wrote (28886)	9/26/2012 9:29:08 PM
From: sm1th	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

koan you are always calling for more govt spending, especially for education. How do you explain this? Double the spending for no results.

To: koan who wrote (28886)	9/27/2012 12:00:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

If the rich are trying to take over the country (as we liberals maintain) what would they do? They would convince people democracy is not good and they are better to lead the country. You conflate democracy and big government again. They are two very different things. If the rich were trying to take over the country, the easiest path for them to do so would be to convince people that big government controlling their lives was good, and then the rich would co-opt the government. That's much easier than trying to stage a coup, which is their only other real alternative to take over.

To: koan who wrote (28886)	9/27/2012 12:37:35 PM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

They would convince people democracy is not good and they are better to lead the country. And some people fall for it. Democracy isn't good which is why the founders in their wisdom instituted a constitutional republic in favor of it. The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule . . . a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights . . . . The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights. AR youtube.com