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To: skinowski who wrote (777197)	2/7/2023 1:22:33 PM
From: golfer72	1 Recommendation Recommended By skinowski Respond to of 793623

You got it. My comment was not meant to infer you didnt know the difference

To: skinowski who wrote (777197)	2/7/2023 1:46:22 PM
From: Maple MAGA	7 Recommendations Recommended By golfer72 Hugh Bett isopatch Mick Mørmøny pheilman_ and 2 more members Respond to of 793623

"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." Ayn Rand - Republic

To: skinowski who wrote (777197)	2/7/2023 6:57:51 PM
From: Maple MAGA	3 Recommendations Recommended By kckip Mick Mørmøny MulhollandDrive Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793623

Powerless minorities do not always get eaten up :) "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." AYN RAND "The defense of minority rights is acclaimed today, virtually by everyone, as a moral principle of a high order. But this principle, which forbids discrimination, is applied by most of the “liberal” intellectuals in a discriminatory manner: it is applied only to racial or religious minorities. It is not applied to that small, exploited, denounced, defenseless minority which consists of businessmen." AYN RAND