MunchyBrain
Born Against
Re: Make sure you vote on Thursday and stop the BNP!
It's really naive of you if you think that if another president had got in, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. It amuses me how almost every president or prime minister who gets elected, by the end of their term, people are going on about how they're the worst president/prime minister ever. There's always a honeymoon period, before everyone starts to become disillusioned. Why they never become disillusioned with the system is beyond me.
As for Kyoto, wow, and there was me thinking that they sold off our planet and environment...oh wait.
I don't think that you can ever have a functioning democracy, even direct democracy, for whole countries. We'd have to drastically reduce the size of our communities before democracy could even vaguely represent the needs of those communities. But any system where anyone's view is worth more than anyone else's is politically and emotionally abhorrent.
Nonsense. Admittedly, we exist in a bogus political system that caters to the wealthy and wicked, but this is a copout. Take the last few presidential elections, if all the people who share this bogus idea had actually showed up to the polls in 2000 would we be living in a utopian workers’ paradise? Certainly not. But Bush would never have gotten to the White House, the US would never have invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and probably collectively a million or more people would not have been killed or maimed or mutilated, etc. Thats’ f***ing substantial reason in itself. This holier-than-thou, extreme, rejectionist stance is so counterproductive. I never said the system wasn’t f***ed, but does that mean everything the government does is inherently evil or worthless. Reality is more complex and nuanced. For example the Kyoto protocols or the FISSBAN treaty which could’ve virtually ended the threat of nuclear war, or closing the SOA, or increasing social spending, etc., etc. Presently the “Employee Free Choice Act’ which will make it much easier to form unions, and provide better protections for labor rights Wal-Mart is absolutely terrified of it. Will it save the world in a day? Definitely not, but it’s still a worthy cause. (All Americans please go here to find out more and join the campaign to get the Employee Free Choice Act passed here: http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/) Also, not voting is EXACTLY what they want you to do.
It's really naive of you if you think that if another president had got in, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. It amuses me how almost every president or prime minister who gets elected, by the end of their term, people are going on about how they're the worst president/prime minister ever. There's always a honeymoon period, before everyone starts to become disillusioned. Why they never become disillusioned with the system is beyond me.
As for Kyoto, wow, and there was me thinking that they sold off our planet and environment...oh wait.
No form of democracy, even direct democracy will work if you don’t participate. This is a classic self-fulfilling prophecy. Not to mention you’re in a pretty convenient situation to be saying that.
I don't think that you can ever have a functioning democracy, even direct democracy, for whole countries. We'd have to drastically reduce the size of our communities before democracy could even vaguely represent the needs of those communities. But any system where anyone's view is worth more than anyone else's is politically and emotionally abhorrent.