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Originally Posted by dippin
certainly not guns, as those have been used to know down democracies at least as often as they have been used to set them up.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
Certinaly you don't expect the answer to such a complex and loaded question to simply be "guns" or "armament". The delicate balance necessary to maintain economic and social prosperity while also maintaining a fair balance of power between people, government, and market couldn't be summed up in 100,000 words, let alone one. Could one of those 100,000 words be something related to weapons? Very possibly. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to earning and maintaining a republic.
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the answer is quite simple, in reality.
what keeps a democracy in the face of oppression is the threat of violence. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
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