If the basis and roots of democracy are shallow, then the strength, the stability and the durability of an attempt at democracy will be problematic, and democracy itself will be a precarious... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-19 10:56:32
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A greedy nature is a nature conditioned, constituted and crystallized by a nurturing of  greed. The libertarian believes that human beings are able to fulfill moral... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 12:57:34
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I am a fully convinced social democrat. I am fully convinced that a social democracy can succeed in achieving what social democrats desire.  And, I am fully convinced that a social... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:20:56
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On June 18, 2004, Neal Boortz was talking about school children and school bus stops,  and Mr. Boortz declared: "I am a social darwinist." I believe that people would listen... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:28:42
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There are those who will say that a democracy can vote to kill whoever the members want. I suppose that if you have an aristocratic, or a plutocratic government, the aristocrats and... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:42:20
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"Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." -- Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:44:27
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If gay marriage is wrong, then don't do it. If polygamy is wrong, then don't do it. If masturbation is wrong, then don't do it. If gays wish to marry, then let them be. If the state... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:48:35
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The government of these United States is not a democracy. However, a democracy  can be a constitutional arrangement, and a republic can be a democracy. The United States is a... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 13:58:18
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Some will say that democracy is necessary, but by itself is not enough. The real checks and balances that insure freedom in democratic societies are undemocratic and immovable in nature -... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 14:16:16
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If the United Stated Constitution can be vaguely called a "social contract", for example, it is not an uncontested contract, it is not an undisputed charter, it is not an unchallenged... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-20 14:28:31
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It seems that the only way to achieve full employment in a capitalist regimen is to engineer a lot of underemployment, or a lot of part-time employment. Past human failures do not... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-21 15:52:38
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A name denoting that which does not and cannot exist is nonsense. Saying that a libertarian democracy is impossible is sheer dogmatism on the part of ideological capitalists. A... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-21 16:24:31
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Creativity is a fundamental characteristic of human being. Creativity is as fundamental to being human as is freedom. If there are actual truths, then are there possible truths?... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-21 16:53:12
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Anarchism is not the absence of laws in a society.  Rather, anarchism is the absence of statutory law; anarchism is the absence of legislative law. Anarchism is the presence of moral law.... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 15:21:57
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Those with sufficient economic power can afford enough military power to enforce their will.  We cannot isolate or abstract the free market from private property. Private property does... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 15:26:56
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Truth is both seductive and subversive. There is a balance of powers within the organized state, between the branches of government; but, there is no balance of powers between... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 15:41:05
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Is it proper for those who are the docile victims of organized brutal violence to initiate physical force of violence against their tyrannical oppressors, in order to dissolve, stop and... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 15:46:50
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I agree with John Lock's opinion that freedom cannot exist without a will to exercise it. I also agree with his opinion that a will cannot be said to exist unless it has the freedom to act.... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 15:58:47
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If greed is only a part of human nature, then perhaps there is another part of human nature. Perhaps this other part of human nature is generosity. If greed were the only makeup of human... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 16:01:31
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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away." -- Sophocles Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 16:03:17
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Well-meaning people, who occupy a power vacuum, will likely want to retain and maintain the power over others which they have captured and usurped.  Such well-meaning power- grabbers will... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 16:05:19
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Capitalism necessitated and coerced fundamental changes in human behavior in order for it to work.  For example, modern capitalism both required and enforced the commodification of human... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 16:10:05
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The most effective check on natural human evil is ever and always our natural human  goodness, kindness, and generosity. Communism is not statist. Communism is anarchist.... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 16:32:37
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Perhaps the choice between individualism and communism is an extremist choice, a hardliner choice, or a fundamentalist choice.  Perhaps the choice between the two extremities is... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 16:41:53
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I think it can be argued that Karl Marx did recognize that capitalism involves a form of government -- i.e., a liberal plutocracy with a bourgeois state. When Marx was alive and writing, only... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 17:01:49
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Capitalism involves a plutocratic form of government, which is a pluto-democracy, a liberal democracy, a bourgeois democracy, with the class of proprietors being both the citizens and the... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 17:04:23
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What is mathematically interesting and logically valid may be theoretically valuable, and yet also be empirically controversial, and experientially debatable. The Chicago School of... Read More
Posted by: rallen2 on 2008-01-27 17:08:38
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