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Originally Posted by rufuspfunk Since dealing with the present oligarchy doesn't seem to be working, how about we make this puppet show real and go towards a total autocracy. |
We live in the the country with the world's highest standard of livnig, most powerful economy the world has even known, ditto the military and a country that leads the world in higher education, the only country to put a man on the moon, etc etc etc etc - I'd call the US incredibly successful.
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Originally Posted by rufuspfunk Incoming autodefenestration. . . |
Wow - and I thought I was a word whore. I haven't seen or used that since my senior comp class - actually just defenstration - but it was still a bit odd eleven years ago. In any event - lovly choice.
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Originally Posted by rufuspfunk In all seriousness, I'm not sure what would work best for America since there are so many needs that its populace desire/need. The point to that statement is that in other countries, you predominately have a standard person indigenous to the area that knows, lives, and follows by what has been in place for time immemorial. You get influx from other countries, but your country is made up of mostly your countrymen. |
You are saying we do not have a homogenous society like say Japan or Iceland?
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Originally Posted by rufuspfunk America is made up of people from all over the world. We have to try to please and serve the needs of those who wish to become like us when we don't even know what we are at times.
An "ideal" democracy serves this purpose. Does not Communism as well? I am not a "pinko" clown (lol), but am I not right in the comparison of the ends of both means? To serve the "people" involved? |
"Communism" has never been tried. That was for Krash and a few others. However, its been tried a lot. It has been an exercise in horror.... Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Il Jong to name but a few mass mass murderers.