I suppose every bible hugging red neck in the south have no problems with it.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Is democracy a true tool of freedom?
If you ask anyone what is the ideal form of government,
they will probably choose democracy. Of course, compared to communism,
dictatorships, monarchies oligarchies, anarchism, I can sympathize with that idea.
Is it really such a great choice? Here, (following the dreadful and robotic IRAC format) In the United States, millions of dollars, maybe billions, will be wasted this year to convince millions of people, most of them woefully ignorant of the candidates, issues, and policy choices, to pull one lever versus another — based entirely upon advertisements which willfully distort the opponent’s record and glorify the candidate’s own, and “news” reports whose partiality is obvious. If you are not having second thoughts, let me remind you of a few instances of Democracy at it's "best": Egypt. The country just selected the Muslim Brotherhood, a “suspected” supporter of terrorism according to the US, to lead it. Gaza similarly elected Hamas, a murderous gang unquestionably in the same category. Venezuela elected soon to be defunct dictator and Latin America's best pariah, Hugo Chavez, and for that matter, Hitler ysv”z was elected democratically as well, I think I do not have much to say on the latter.
Oh, one last caveat, all those billions of dollars pulled in for political advertisement for your favorite beauty king contest, paid by Corporate interests which of course, will come to get their return on investment at your expense.
Awww, democracy, can't have enough of it!
Is it really such a great choice? Here, (following the dreadful and robotic IRAC format) In the United States, millions of dollars, maybe billions, will be wasted this year to convince millions of people, most of them woefully ignorant of the candidates, issues, and policy choices, to pull one lever versus another — based entirely upon advertisements which willfully distort the opponent’s record and glorify the candidate’s own, and “news” reports whose partiality is obvious. If you are not having second thoughts, let me remind you of a few instances of Democracy at it's "best": Egypt. The country just selected the Muslim Brotherhood, a “suspected” supporter of terrorism according to the US, to lead it. Gaza similarly elected Hamas, a murderous gang unquestionably in the same category. Venezuela elected soon to be defunct dictator and Latin America's best pariah, Hugo Chavez, and for that matter, Hitler ysv”z was elected democratically as well, I think I do not have much to say on the latter.
Oh, one last caveat, all those billions of dollars pulled in for political advertisement for your favorite beauty king contest, paid by Corporate interests which of course, will come to get their return on investment at your expense.
Awww, democracy, can't have enough of it!
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