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2007-12-17 Europe

Abnormals of All Nations, Unite! : On the exceptionality of political liberty

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Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-12-17 11:44|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I've had the same thought more than a few times - most nations in what we'd consider the West are the exception, not the rule, and yet we act as though we expect everyone else to think and act and believe just as we do. As though putting a thug into a suit is going to make him something other than a thug.

What really breaks my heart is the way that the thugs and autocrats seem to understand this game so much better than our own leaders and intellectuals, who scamper around pretending that someone like Abbas or Hussein or Kim has as much legitimacy as a leader as someone like Bush or even Brown. And the thugs get all sorts of handouts and play these pretend elections, and then go back and slam the West. And our own "intellectuals" aren't any better; judging from their writings and speeches, they apparently believe that this whole democratic republic thing is evil and overrated. No doubt they'd prefer a thug.

Posted by The Doctor 2007-12-17 14:19|| 2007-12-17 14:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, once you get right down to it, a lot of communist ideology, leftism, "anti-colonialism," and what have you, is basically an ideological push to make the asiatic despots of "HEAR AND TREMBLINGLY OBEY" fame look like hip revolutionary anti-authoritarians instead of what they really are.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-12-17 15:33|| 2007-12-17 15:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Romania's democracy is the only kind that can endorse the EUSSR with no fear the people might belatedly whole their representatives to account.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-12-17 15:59|| 2007-12-17 15:59|| Front Page Top

#4 FREEREPUBLIC > BRITAIN/UK - USA IS A DEMOCRACY WHICH WE CAN ONLY DREAM OF BEING, or title to that effect.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-17 18:12|| 2007-12-17 18:12|| Front Page Top

#5 It just goes to show how unbelievably prescient our founding fathers were to create the kind of government we've inherited. Too bad it's been eroded so badly over the past 100 years. Yet it still functions to the betterment of its citizens far more than any other type of government. It would be even better if we could undo some of the mistakes made by Wilson, FDR, and Lyndon Johnson.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-12-17 19:50|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-12-17 19:50|| Front Page Top

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