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| Unpatriotic voters elect unpatriotic leaders |
| 2015-02-23 |
| by Glenn Harlan Reynolds [USAToday] Last week, Rudy Giuliani mused about whether President Obama loves America, musings that produced immediate media backlash as beyond the pale. Some thought this was proof of Republican racism. (Never mind that Obama had accused President Bush of being "unpatriotic" back in 2008). ...Perhaps we need to pay closer attention to these questions where presidents are concerned, but perhaps we should go a step farther: In a country like ours, where voters reign supreme, it seems as if concern about the patriotism of rulers ought to also apply to voters. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 Also require politicians to pass the same civics test. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-02-23 17:03 |
| #5 Plug one hole in the sieve by requiring voters to pass the same civics test that immigrants take to gain citizenship. |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2015-02-23 16:40 |
| #4 To echo P2K's comments on guns, note the strategic actions by the EPA on ammunition and DoJ on banking for Gun Dealers being a "high risk" for banks and discouraging it. If you choke of availability and escalate the cost of learning and enjoying/skills sustainment, you kill off future generations who embrace the 2nd amendment. Anyone who doesn't think this is a strategy of the well-entrenched "civil servants" of these agencies is naïve. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2015-02-23 13:58 |
| #3 Patriotism involves the 'willingness to give the last full measure of devotion'. The looters are only concerned about what they can make off with and will run at the first sign of a threat. Thus the need for commissars to beat them into the lines to keep the oligarchy in power. If and when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we'll quickly find out that votes do not equal real power. And that is why the oligarchs desperately want to grab your guns. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-23 10:04 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-02-23 07:24 |
| #1 Symptom, not a cause. 47% and all that. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2015-02-23 05:35 |