Topic: Liberalism
+Anonymous A — 5 months ago #67,937
I’d never admit this in real life, but even though I think democracy is good, whenever I hear arguments defending liberalism or defending freedom of thought or freedom of speech, the arguments don’t really make that much sense to me.
+Anonymous B — 5 months ago, 6 days later[T] [B] #673,591
Human right is one of them that must be preserved!
+Anonymous C — 5 months ago, 16 hours later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,603
@previous (B)
Human rights are made up.
+Publius — 5 months ago, 19 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,605
Without the free exercise of those "freedoms", democrcy can't function. Then it becomes an abstract theory for discussion, but this still requires free agency. Direct Democrcy amounts to mob rule, which is why we have a parliamentarian, representative democrcy which subsists of subsidiarity and solidarity among the hoi polloi, under rule of law and insured by checks and balances as defined in the Constution. Also, letting chatgpt write tariff policy instead of Cnngress is the daftest thing anyone's ever done.
·Anonymous C — 5 months ago, 4 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,606
And now I’ve overwritten that.
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·Publius — 5 months ago, 8 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,607
@previous (C)
There is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech, which is why we have the 'rule of law' . If stochastic terrrism, for example, to silence speech goes unprosecuted, then society breaks down. The rule of law exists for the protection of the whole, which authoritarianism can never protect.
+Anonymous E — 5 months ago, 3 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,608
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·Publius — 5 months ago, 2 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,609
·Anonymous E — 5 months ago, 4 minutes later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,610
There are countries that do align with my view on it that are democracies. There’s no point in saying more.
+Anonymous F — 5 months ago, 15 hours later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,617
The rule of law also provides for remedial means to redress criminal neglect or abuse of the public trust by the powers enumerated during the convention, and should the majority of the cabinet fail to exercise the remedy provided for in the 25th amendment, the remedy under original intent is in Article II, § 4 and executed as outlined in Article I, § 2, cl. 5, and Article I, § 3, cl. 6. An authoritarian regime provides no such remedies.
·Hoi Polloi — 5 months ago, 4 hours later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,638
Okay I scanned the Internet response to the collapse, and while some Rep Senatrrs understand they're toast with dbl digit unemployment & inflation, none appear willing to vote with Dems. They're all doing it wrong. The Commerce Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) "The Cnngress shall have Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations... "
·Hoi Polloi — 5 months ago, 4 hours later, 1 week after the original post[T] [B] #673,661
So I wasted time watching the Senate and during rollcall my mind went back to the campaign platform Reps ran on which attained to the electorate's attention; economic relief, prosperity and some notion of peace through strength through protectionism but the narrative shifted when they began to justify imperialist notions because everyone was "ripping us off" and cabinet members began demanding an emperor being 'given control' of the global economy. It looks like he's the bogeymen they feared; a "gloobalist"
They want a redistribution of wealth that decimates the global populus for the benefit of the hoi oligoi. It doesn't get much simpler than that, folks. Luckily the rest of the world can survive without us.