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@gameragodzilla @bob The US isn't a democracy though, it's a republic.
- Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
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@maiyannah @bob Well the reason why Communist countries always end up using military and state police power on the populace is that the only way to take out someone or something "in power", which in a capitalistic society would be "the rich", you'd need something more powerful. That something is government power. So you take over the government, and use that to purge all the "bad elements" and implement your utopia.
Of course the problem is once you give people power, they don't really want to give it up, and you eventually go from attacking the people actually oppressing you, to people who are just related in some way to the people oppressing you, to anyone who remotely disagrees with you as being "counter revolutionary".
We notice this kind of behavior with SJWs, too.
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@gameragodzilla @bob It takes people of a particular moral calibre to resist that call, and honestly, those kinds of people are typically of the kind of personality to try to work within existing systems to change them from within, rather than usurp them. Usurpation of systems tends to be the reaction of aggressive personalities, and aggressive personalities usually don't gel well with being in positions of power.
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@maiyannah @bob @gameragodzilla Why is this factoid so wide-spread in North America? Republics aren't Athenian, but modern democracies.
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@clacke @gameragodzilla @bob Because words have meanings.
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@maiyannah @bob @gameragodzilla Constitutional monarchies, federal direct democracies, republics ... all (potentially) liberal democracies.
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@maiyannah @bob @gameragodzilla http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/democracy
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@maiyannah @bob @gameragodzilla My point exactly.
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