What if we've been deceived into thinking we're more divided than we actually are?
Some Corrections... Yes, most college professors ARE trying to silence conservatives and turn kids…
Can you elaborate on "voting rights" vs. "voting privileges?"
The number one point I'd like to bring up is the distinction between democracy and liberty. Most people in the United States think they are the same thing. They're dead wrong. Democracy means Majority Rule – whatever the majority votes for, it gets. If the majority votes to enslave the minority, or plunder the minority (which is currently being done through the Welfare State) then it will happen. Might makes right. Whatever most people say goes. There's no law above what the consensus happens to be at any given moment. This is why I detest democracy – it enslaves the minority. And the people who are participating in it, are totally uneducated and lack in many cases basic morality. As Founding Father George Mason said, "It would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for chief Magistrate to the people, as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind men. The extent of the Country renders it impossible that the people can have the requisite capacity to judge of the respective pretensions of the Candidates."
"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right." – Alexander Hamilton
"Democracies have ever been the spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." – James Madison
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be." – Thomas Jefferson
Our Founders were resolutely against democracy, so they imposed property qualifications for voting and believed only those of civic and moral virtue should vote – back then you had to be 25 years old, by financially independent, have a good knowledge of politic… Daha fazla oku
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