Straight up democracy: Two wolves and a lamb voting about what to have for dinner.
The United States is not a democracy. It is a republic.
Don't agree? Okay. I dare you to stand in any assembly with your right hand over your heart and say, "I pledge allegiance to the flag...and to the democracy for which it stands..."
My point: Democracy is something we fight for but it was never the original intention of the founding fathers. The electoral college allowed Bush and Trump to win, but it also allowed Obama and Franklin Roosevelt to win. Things generally balance out when taken as a historical whole.
The United States is not a democracy. It is a republic.
Don't agree? Okay. I dare you to stand in any assembly with your right hand over your heart and say, "I pledge allegiance to the flag...and to the democracy for which it stands..."
My point: Democracy is something we fight for but it was never the original intention of the founding fathers. The electoral college allowed Bush and Trump to win, but it also allowed Obama and Franklin Roosevelt to win. Things generally balance out when taken as a historical whole.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
