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Originally Posted by longliveusa
democracy is mob rule which has no place in a free country. Calling me irrational is just a way of attacking my freedom of speech. you are no conservative you are a liberal democrat. but in the end the Tea Party the real conservatives will defeated the liberal democrats/muslims and socialist. God bless America/Israel/Japan and Superior Western Civilization.
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Wow. Just wow. If America had no democracy at all, you know what it would have? Meritocracy, autocracy, or plutocracy, or something in place of
everyday Americans going to the polls and selecting their leaders by ballot. Leaders that are beholden to them as representatives in government accountable to them as voters. That's a democratic feature of your government.
And pointing out how you're being irrational isn't attacking your freedom of speech. At all. You're free to be irrational all you want. It's a conservative idea that criticism of what people say is an attack on free speech. Well, you can't defend free speech and in the same breath denounce criticism. Either you support free speech or you don't. You can't pick and choose what one is free to say, this includes criticism of irrational thought. Sometimes it's difficult to accept the truth if it challenges your ideologies. Such is life.
And what the hell is "God bless America/Israel/Japan and Superior Western Civilization"? Superior Western Civilization sounds mighty jingoistic. Are you one of those supporters of the idea of American exceptionalism? Well, here's a news flash: American exceptionalism is a fantasy. In a highly globalized world, such an idea is old and regressive. America can no longer be exceptional when you have the likes of China and the other BRIC nations, in addition to the EU, playing a progressively larger role in the global geopolitical stage. American exceptionalism is a outmoded, 20th century, conservative dream. Get over it. Wake up. By the time you do, China with be the world's largest and most influential economic power. It's not a matter of "if"; it's a matter of "when."
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but in the end the Tea Party the real conservatives will defeated the liberal democrats/muslims and socialist.
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But what if they don't? This is, in part, the issue of this thread. Do you mean "defeat" as in defeat at the polls? What if Obama is re-elected? Will Tea Partiers simply roll with that until the next election? Or do you mean "defeat" in another way? (Because I don't know how Tea Partiers will defeat Muslims or socialists at the polls.)