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Originally Posted by jonjon42
do you know what type of bills need to be paid for alot of these private schools? My god, it's like paying for a mini college. Home schooling isn't really viable when both parents work, or the child will end up hitting a ceiling where their parents will be unable to teach them more.
Also, in American society how could communism=tyranny? we vote for the people who create the laws. They are at the people's will and not the other way around. (I know this is a bit idealized, but it works generally) Why would the goverment suddenly cut all benefits? Wouldn't they want to continue to keep the citizens happy?
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I agree with you jonjon.
The implicit reasoning underlying comments above in this thread are very bizarre to me. The government is not some abstract entity removed from civil society. Sometimes people seem to carry these bureaucratic concepts in their heads and forget that the people sitting at the desks are human beings who live right next door to us. They don't live in palaces, or compounds, or hail from some special lineage. The "government" is comprised of normal, everyday people with the same fears and desires as the rest of us milling around.
The people who take up all the primetime news slots may be economic or political elites, but they are such a tiny fraction of the entire government structure that it just seems alien to me that so many people believe the "government" will just steamroll the average citizen if not for their six-shooter.