« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Governed versus ruled.  (Read 1310 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Freeper

  • Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17779
  • Reputation: +1311/-314
  • Creepy ass cracker.
Governed versus ruled.
« on: June 12, 2013, 09:18:20 PM »
Quote
Gregorian (19,683 posts)

Governed versus ruled.


 
If we live in a democracy, then we have a say in what happens. It is not acceptable that our government decides what is best for us, behind our backs.

I would personally rather take the risk of being blown up by a terrorist than live my life knowing someone is watching my communications. However, under certain circumstances, where I feel it is justified, I may allow someone to listen in to my private life. That is my decision, not theirs.

It's a fine line between these two scenarios. One is democratic, and the other is not.

http://election.democraticunderground.com/10023001311

First of all we do NOT live in a democracy, so many low information people have been taught that in the democrat run schools, we are a democratic republic. And yes there is a difference.

Secondly you have no choice when it comes to someone listening in on your phone calls, if the state decides they need to monitor you, they will do so and they sure as hell will NOT ask your opinion.

Quote
L0oniX (17,772 posts)
1. They lied to us about WMD's and they want us to trust them? LOL


They lied to us about 0bamacare, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and on and on and yet I see post after post of how you fools trust 0bama.
The fact that he claims that no one is listening in on our phone calls does not make me feel any better. When a known liar swears the government is not doing something I do not believe them.


Logged
I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

Offline USA4ME

  • Evil Capitalist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14835
  • Reputation: +2476/-76
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2013, 10:41:57 PM »
Quote from:
Gregorian

It is not acceptable that our government decides what is best for us, behind our backs

Believing the gov't should decide what is best for you is the foundation of modern-day liberalism. The cornerstone of your very existance. The ying in your yang. Who are you trying to kid? You act like people aren't aware of what libs have been promoting for years. Cut it out, it's just embarrassing.

.
Logged
Because third world peasant labor is a good thing.

Offline Bad Dog

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5927
  • Reputation: +314/-313
  • God help me I do love it so
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2013, 11:42:55 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on June 12, 2013, 10:41:57 PM
Believing the gov't should decide what is best for you is the foundation of modern-day liberalism. The cornerstone of your very existance. The ying in your yang. Who are you trying to kid? You act like people aren't aware of what libs have been promoting for years. Cut it out, it's just embarrassing.

.

What he said.
Logged

Offline SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23556
  • Reputation: +2479/-270
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2013, 01:05:17 AM »
Quote
L0oniX (17,772 posts)
1. They lied to us about WMD's and they want us to trust them? LOL

Saddam could've walked around with a bottle of dating around his neck and you traitors would cheer him over the US.
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline Skul

  • Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12475
  • Reputation: +914/-179
  • Chief of the cathouse
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2013, 01:22:00 AM »
Liberal regressives prefer to be ruled.
It gives structure and meaning to their own lives.
Conservatives would prefer being governed because it gives structure and meaning to society as a whole.
Democratics look after themselves, only. Always, themselves.
Logged
Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

Offline 98ZJUSMC

  • The Most Deplorable
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8424
  • Reputation: +436/-76
  • Now, with 99% less yellow!
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2013, 03:52:16 AM »
Quote
Gregorian (19,683 posts)

Governed versus ruled.


 
If we live in a democracy, then we have a say in what happens. It is not acceptable that our government decides what is best for us, behind our backs.

I would personally rather take the risk of being blown up by a terrorist than live my life knowing someone is watching my communications. However, under certain circumstances, where I feel it is justified, I may allow someone to listen in to my private life. That is my decision, not theirs.

It's a fine line between these two scenarios. One is democratic, and the other is not.

Who are you bullshittin'?  All they have to say is FrEEsHiT!!!111!!!1 and you defectives are fellating each other with unbridled exstacy.

Well,....more unbridled than normal daily operations.....

A government that has the power to "give freely"  has the power to take freely.  Enjoy your premium increases and tax fines for........nothing.  You see, they have provided nothing yet, will take from you freely.

Your only hope is us repealing that abortion and saving you from yourselves.

Quote from: Skul on June 13, 2013, 01:22:00 AM
Liberal regressives prefer to be ruled.

I don't know why they even pretend otherwise.

Quote
It gives structure and meaning to their own lives.
Conservatives would prefer being governed because it gives structure and meaning to society as a whole.
Democratics look after themselves, only. Always, themselves.

They try.  Those inevitable unintended consequences get them every time.

 
« Last Edit: June 13, 2013, 03:55:51 AM by 98ZJUSMC »
Logged
              

Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

"Accuse others of what you do." - Karl Marx

Offline FiddyBeowulf

  • "Its on, its off, its on, its off." "That is called blinking, boys."
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5271
  • Reputation: +523/-34
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2013, 06:58:22 AM »
Quote from: Freeper on June 12, 2013, 09:18:20 PM
http://election.democraticunderground.com/10023001311

First of all we do NOT live in a democracy, so many low information people have been taught that in the democrat run schools, we are a democratic republic. And yes there is a difference.


DUmmie has an answer for that. A wrong answer but representative of what happens when you let Howard Zinn write your history books.
Quote
H2O Man (48,700 posts)
7. Actually, we are a democracy.

This is a common error of the uninformed: to say we are a republic, or a democratic republic. That was true up until Jefferson took the Office of the President; since Jefferson, we have been a democracy.

We vote for Senators and Representatives in the House; for our governors, state legislators, county-city-town officials. The single office where direct vote is not the #1 decider is, of course, that of the presidency. Yet this is the minority of offices.

We are, by ever definition, a democracy. Those who dispute that are ignorant of our history, and of current events.
To sum it up... :blah: :lalala:  :mental:
Logged
Fire...BAD!!! - John Fetterman


The policies that are indorsed by this party, that they backer of which are much of the 1 percent, causes a social structure much like the one back before the Revolution.

-Words of wisdom from Lady Freedom Returns

"Arguing with liberals...it's like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it's victorious." -- Anonymous

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." - P. J. O'Rourke

Offline USA4ME

  • Evil Capitalist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14835
  • Reputation: +2476/-76
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2013, 08:12:26 AM »
Saying "democratic republic" confuses the simpleminded, which is everyone on the island except for the moles. Using the term "representative republic"  places it in a light where they can't try and blur terms.

Listen up, primitives.  This...

Quote from:
We vote for Senators and Representatives in the House; for our governors, state legislators, county-city-town officials. The single office where direct vote is not the #1 decider is, of course, that of the presidency.

... describes a representative republic (it can also be called a democratic republic or a representative democracy).  We vote for some officials directly and some indirectly (through the electoral college). But we are still voting for representatives who then vote on matters on our behalf.  That's a representative republic ('republic' meaning affairs of state are a public matter).  In a democracy, any bill that came before our city/county/state/federal gov't would mean the whole nation got to cast a vote.

It's a shame these things have to be explained to libs.

.
Logged
Because third world peasant labor is a good thing.

Offline I_B_Perky

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7532
  • Reputation: +721/-329
Re: Governed versus ruled.
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2013, 03:35:05 PM »
Quote from: Skul on June 13, 2013, 01:22:00 AM
Liberal regressives prefer to be ruled.

Liberal regressives prefer to rule.  Fixed that for ya, Skul!   :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
Logged
Living in the Dummies minds rent free since 2009!

Montani Semper Liberi
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »