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... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

Live as if you were a country and other people as other nations. Then learn politics

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology?

How could he uphold the law when that law upheld injustice?

Politics preys on people's naivety

When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier for the less desirable of the two major candidates to claim victory. These lies are repeated every election and they must be ignored. You never waste your vote if you vote your conscience.

The problem is, we have too many cowardly, spineless, selfish people that would sacrifice their children__ future just to avoid the sacrifice love requires of them in the present. And they expect their children to respect them for that? Do they think we__e idiots just because we__e young?

It's easier to run a revolution than a government.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

But *why* do clean torture and democracy appear to go hand in hand? This is an important puzzle (though by no means the only one suggested by the data). My explanation for this pattern generally is this: Public monitoring leads institutions that favor painful coercion to use and combine clean torture techniques to evade detection, and, to the extent that public monitoring is not only greater in democracies, but that public monitoring of human rights is a core value in modern democracies, it is the case that where we find democracies torturing today we will also be more likely to find stealthy torture.

History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--

but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only one song to sing these days--Carol's song--and if you aren't in harmony, you can stick a stone in your mouth and shut the hell up.

Trump is a counter-product of the traditional political scheme.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.