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2008-10-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

White people shouldn't be allowed to vote

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Posted by tu3031 2008-10-28 09:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election,..

Truthers part I.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-28 10:11|| 2008-10-28 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Wadda putz....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-10-28 10:13|| 2008-10-28 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 "A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote - and all votes count equally - has no internal feedback for self
correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens...which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other
citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he
sees it...which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

"Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the
state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
by Robert A. Heinlein
published 1987.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-28 10:14|| 2008-10-28 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Besoeker, you are correct but only when it is in the governments purview to provide bread and circuses.

This is the main rationale for strictly limited government and federalism rather than democracy.

Posted by AlanC 2008-10-28 11:31|| 2008-10-28 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Given that this guy blogs at a site called "phawker.com", who could expect anything different?

Maybe he should change the blog's name to "motherphawker.com"

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-10-28 12:17|| 2008-10-28 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe I'm getting this whole thing wrong but isn't the very definition of racism treating people differently depending on their skin colour?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-10-28 14:00|| 2008-10-28 14:00|| Front Page Top

#7 but isn't the very definition of racism treating people differently depending on their skin colour? That's just the dictionary definition of racism. The definition actually in current use specifies that only "white" people can be racists, and in fact all of them "are" racists. No "person of colour" can be a racist by definition. It is politically incorrect to articulate this definition, however.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-28 14:07|| 2008-10-28 14:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Humorist, at his best! Overwhelmed by white guilt for no apparent reason(unless he went on a blind date with a black girl in college, once), self loathing asshole(he's gay, contradicted, conflicted by his lapsed Catholicism), lives in his Mother's basement, wants to be a psychologist BUT can't even get past the counselor requirements for HS, should give up the Web Log because as a writer - well, he sucks AND the dumbfuck doesn't even know that he lives in a Commonwealth NOT a state. As for the being scared hence armed, it's more like forward strategic thinking. Ever check the Game Commissions stats on hunters accidentally killing their drinking, lets go to Mass with a hangover best friends? heh

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-10-28 21:35|| 2008-10-28 21:35|| Front Page Top

#9 "I have broken kielbasa"

Well that explains it all. (They have pills for that, now).

Posted by Sninenter B. Hayes9863 2008-10-28 22:22|| 2008-10-28 22:22|| Front Page Top

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