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must really be asleep at the wheel these days.
I listened to ABC's Diane Sawyer gush about democracy coming to Egypt
yesterday evening. Did they hold an election while I wasn't paying
attention? Because what I saw was mob rule, not an election.
And no matter how much
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journalists like Sawyer
wish it to be so, mob rule is not democracy.
Her sudden deep and abiding love for
democray in Egypt falls squarely
in the "careful what you wish for" rubrick. I s'pect were mob rule in
the USA to win the day, folks like Sawyer would prolly be the guests of
honor at numerous necktie parties. [badanov]
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"what I saw was mob rule"
ReplyDelete...yeah: Democracy.
e~C
A military coup is not democracy, especially a military friendly to the "deposed" leader of the country for the last 30 years.
ReplyDeleteNot Tong
Beg to differ. Democracy IS mob rule, just differing in decorum.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why the U.S. is (or was) a republic.
Democracy is classically defined as two wolves and a sheep deciding what to do about lunch.
ReplyDeleteH
WV = ingessed. As in, the sheep is about to get ingessted.
Why do these media idiots even care about what happens in a country most of them can't find on a map? "Change the world as we know it" my a**. Change will be minimal. Maybe they don't want to talk about over half the states working with considerable success to kill health care?
ReplyDeleteDemocracy is two perverts and a 16 year old girl deciding on the age on consent.
ReplyDeleteTaking one quote each from Churchill and Mencken, the best argument against democracy is a brief conversation with an average voter. It is nothing more than the art of managing the circus from the monkey cage.
ReplyDeleteStill, tho, it's better than most other methods of selecting a government that mankind ever has tried.
Democracy is the best way of selecting a government, but it is much more important how the governmant is allowed to use its monopoly on force. If you have discretionary decision making, then the government will act arbitrary, because that is its nature. If you have rule of law, requiring all similarly situated people to be treated the same, govt will be rule based. If the government has limited scope and powers, there will be more freedom, more will be organized by voluntary decisions of individuals than by dictates of an elite.
ReplyDeleteWait until the Muslim Brotherhood takes over next fall and starts beheadings in Tahir Square; the libtards will claim that its all Bush's fault.
ReplyDeleteEither that or global warming, Timmo.
ReplyDeleteGrinfilledCelt
but Democracy is mob rule.
ReplyDeleteThat's one reason why the founders didn't go with a pure democracy.
"Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy."
ReplyDelete-- Ron Paul
Rightfully so.
To place your faith in a pure democracy is to believe in the collective wisdom of a self serving mob of ignoramuses.
Boneshaker
More like Dhimmicracy.
ReplyDeleteStick
Re: the pic
ReplyDeleteI don't see the ol' ho's problem.
After all ...
All men a created equilateral.
*badump*dump*