ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote in
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In article , "Ash Wyllie"
writes:

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I can make it simpler. Look at the party NAMES.

Do you want to live in a Republic, with unalienable rights not even the
power of government is permitted to violate, or do you want to live in
a Democracy, where there is no right of yours that is not subject to
transgression if 51% of the populace lusts for what right protects?

That is what the political spectrum is all about, the degree to wich
the individual is soveriegn compared to the degree to which the
collective is soveriegn.

The order is, strarting with maximum individual rights

Libertarian Republican Democrat Nazi Socialist Ants

If you own yourself, and are willing to be responsible for yourself,
you are a Libertarian. If you are owned by the collective, and expect
to be guided and protected from your own failures by that collective,
you are an ant.


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Interesting, then, that our Republican government enacted the Patriot Act
that basically allows government to violate just about every basic right of
the individual without any checks and balances whatsoever...