You Know What Phrase I Hate?
"Our democracy."
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
You mean you aren't willing to share?
ReplyDeleteI like to call it MY democracy.
ReplyDelete"Gene's democracy," I think you meant to say.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's just as revolting as "We the People"', another phrase invented by conniving liars to facilitate their subjugation of the gullible.
ReplyDeleteNobody ever chose to be a part of the democracy, so your sentiment is correct.
ReplyDelete"Our" democracy makes it sound like they are not actually subjects of a system, and are rather the original builders of the system.
It's the same as people who say, "We won" when a national athlete wins the Olympics. They didn't win anything. They weren't there. They didn't jump those very high hurdles.
Well, that's not quite the way I was looking at it, bestquest, but welcome back.
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