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Offline Ptarmigan

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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #450 on: November 07, 2012, 06:11:50 PM »
Isn't this country supposed to be "the great experiment?"

Allegedly.
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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #451 on: November 07, 2012, 07:11:00 PM »
"The America of today is a laboratory example if what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout history.  A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction.  It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens... which is opposed by the folly and lack of  self-restraint of other citizens.  What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in public interest for the safety and welfare of all.  But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure.  Democracy often works beautifully at first.  But once the state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state.  For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in it's weakened condition the state succums to an invader - the barbarians enter Rome." ~ Robert Heinlein
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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #452 on: November 07, 2012, 09:02:25 PM »
It has already started. One of my idiot lib friends on Facebook who was saying Thank God last night is already posting about the price of food and others are commenting in her thread about the price of gas and so on. And just what makes them think it will get any better now?

I guess you can not stop stupid. ::)
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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #453 on: November 07, 2012, 09:03:58 PM »
It has already started. One of my idiot lib friends on Facebook who was saying Thank God last night is already posting about the price of food and others are commenting in her thread about the price of gas and so on. And just what makes them think it will get any better now?

I guess you can not stop stupid. ::)

You can't fix stupid ...

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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #454 on: November 08, 2012, 09:10:41 AM »
It has already started. One of my idiot lib friends on Facebook who was saying Thank God last night is already posting about the price of food and others are commenting in her thread about the price of gas and so on. And just what makes them think it will get any better now?

I guess you can not stop stupid. ::)

Take this jpg



and post it every time they complain about this or that being more expensive.  They may not get it, but it will sure cross their wires.
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."

C.S. Lewis

A community may possess all the necessary moral qualifications, in so high a degree, as to be capable of self-government under the most adverse circumstances; while, on the other hand, another may be so sunk in ignorance and vice, as to be incapable of forming a conception of liberty, or of living, even when most favored by circumstances, under any other than an absolute and despotic government.

John C Calhoun, "Disquisition on Government", 1840

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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #455 on: November 08, 2012, 05:18:21 PM »
Stuck on stupid, they are.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #456 on: November 08, 2012, 08:58:26 PM »
You can't fix stupid ...

Every time I see stupid my Stupidometer breaks. They are not cheap to replace.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #457 on: November 08, 2012, 09:36:08 PM »
Sure, I've been called a xenophobe, but the truth is, I'm not. I honestly just feel that America is the best country and the other countries aren't as good. That used to be called patriotism. -Kenny Powers

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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #458 on: November 09, 2012, 10:08:58 AM »


D'oh!  :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

You sure about that? When the stupid vote for the stupid, stupid wins every time.

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Re: The 2012 Election night LIVE thread ...
« Reply #459 on: November 09, 2012, 07:59:39 PM »
You sure about that? When the majority of the voters are stupid, stupid wins every time.

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