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SmarterthanYou

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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” ― Alexander Fraser Tytler
 
SmarterthanYou said:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” ― Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Yet you and the Republican Party love big government and what it can do for you. Now you pretend that a guy who lives 3-400 years ago knows what is happening today
 
Not surprising, Tytler was cynical of democracy, critic of the Enlightenment thinkers

It isn’t only Democrats who spend, even before the pandemic, the last Administration was dropping dollars at an Olympian rate, and all during a growing economy

Problem with your viewpoint is that you don’t want the Government to do anything, yet you will look to it to enforce your social and political views
 
SmarterthanYou said:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” ― Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Democracy has a much simpler definition.

I can describe what Democracy is in 4 words- A Voting Majority wins.
 
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archives said:
Now one can see why this poster swallows the video:



Probably where his hero Steve Hilton stole the useless cliche from
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Humans are intimately connected, it is our nature....we do not steal ideas....they build organically through the collective.

As you should know.
 
floridafan said:
Yet you and the Republican Party love big government and what it can do for you. Now you pretend that a guy who lives 3-400 years ago knows what is happening today
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I am a Libertarian, not a republican. the republican party is not mine. most everyone here should know enough by my posts now to understand that I am anything BUT big government. so stop making bullshit up in your head to make you feel better about your fucked up positions.
 
archives said:
Not surprising, Tytler was cynical of democracy, critic of the Enlightenment thinkers

It isn’t only Democrats who spend, even before the pandemic, the last Administration was dropping dollars at an Olympian rate, and all during a growing economy

Problem with your viewpoint is that you don’t want the Government to do anything, yet you will look to it to enforce your social and political views
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proof that you're just another liberal idiot with memory retention issues.
 
Phantasmal said:
Liberals are evil? He claims to be an equal opportunity hater, but I rarely see him condemn conservatives like he hates on liberals. Now he’ll come on and tell me I’m wrong
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you lefties really need to find another schtick to pursue.........but nobody changes your minds from it's fantasy.................
 
Phantasmal said:
Bingo!
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just like you believing you scored some point, despite the fact that you obviously ignore my posts criticizing conservatives.........tunnel vision.

it's bullshit like that will certainly keep me buying guns and ammo in preparation for what will eventually be another civil war.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
just like you believing you scored some point, despite the fact that you obviously ignore my posts criticizing conservatives.........tunnel vision.

it's bullshit like that will certainly keep me buying guns and ammo in preparation for what will eventually be another civil war.
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Bingo, again
 
SmarterthanYou said:
and can then do to the minority whatever it is they wish.
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Losing elections has consequences. Shocking huh?

Give me one good reason why a Majority should not make the decisions!

When Congress votes! When The People Vote! When The Supreme Court Votes!

Does Democracy only work when Congress and the Supreme Court Votes- but not for the people when we vote?

Democracy only works when we all go by the same rules- and there are no privileged characters.

Are you suggesting the Minority should be making all the rules and rulings?
 
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SmarterthanYou said:
I am a Libertarian, not a republican. the republican party is not mine. most everyone here should know enough by my posts now to understand that I am anything BUT big government. so stop making bullshit up in your head to make you feel better about your fucked up positions.
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Libertarianism is coffee house bullshit. It sounds almost feasible, but in practice, it is an impossibility. People who claim to be Libertarian are pretty quickly revealed to be something else altogether. You, for example, are a white nationalist, not a libertarian.
 
archives said:
Not surprising, Tytler was cynical of democracy, critic of the Enlightenment thinkers

It isn’t only Democrats who spend, even before the pandemic, the last Administration was dropping dollars at an Olympian rate, and all during a growing economy

Problem with your viewpoint is that you don’t want the Government to do anything, yet you will look to it to enforce your social and political views
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When Republicans control the president and Congress they spend just much as the Democrats. Trump increased the debt almost $8 trillion. When the election neared and the spending bill had $600 in stimulus funds Trump wanted it increased to $2,000. Pelosi called a vote on the $2000 to get their votes on record.

I'm certainly not defending Democrats, just pointing out the alternative is no better.
 
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