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james_davis_nicollThe demands of a free populace, too, are very seldom harmful to liberty, for they are due either to the populace being oppressed or to the suspicious that it is going to be oppressed...
and, should these impressions be false, a remedy is provided in the public platform on which some man of standing can get up, appeal to the crowd, and show that it is mistaken. And though, as Tully remarks, the populace may be ignorant, it is capable of grasping the truth and readily yields when a man, worthy of confidence, lays the truth before it.
Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions. Thus, it is an easy matter for him who carefully examines past events to foresee future events in a republic and to apply the remedies employed by the ancients, or, if old remedies cannot be found, to devise new ones based upon the similarity of the events.
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:27 am (UTC)Who are you calling a pedophile!?
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Date: 2012-02-21 12:08 pm (UTC)DANGEROUS! I managed to close it before I read it, though, so I'm okay.
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Date: 2012-02-21 12:43 pm (UTC)This shows Google's adaptive search at work. I suspect that someone who was a classical scholar would have a classical source show up first.
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Date: 2012-02-21 06:14 pm (UTC)...Any human being to rule wisely and well.
...Any bureaucrat to put the interests of the people before his own aggrandizement. His pension, of course, is inviolate.
...Any bureaucracy to accurately pass all the necessary information up the chain of command, and to pass intelligible orders back down.
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Date: 2012-02-22 03:33 am (UTC)The difference is that if the corporate bureaucracy screws up far enough, the company either fixes itself or goes bankrupt.
Government bureaurats screw up, they just write more regs that make even less sense, and raise taxes.
We now have a situation where even badly run or outright fraudulent companies are so closely coupled to the government, it's hard to tell the difference. "Too big to fail."
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Date: 2012-02-22 05:04 am (UTC)Nope. As previously proven and demonstrated in the field: when sufficiently large, they do not go bankrupt. They convince the political bureaucracy to bail them out through the exploitation of the fears of the conservative base.
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Date: 2012-02-21 04:30 pm (UTC)Or if the populace is the Tea Party and incapable of yielding to an articulate educated man who challenges their notions of what is worthy of confidence by the accident of being a negro.
- krin
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Date: 2012-02-21 05:41 pm (UTC)Not the "accident" of being raised by radical, anti-American socialists?
Not the "accident" of being political product extruded by the Chicago machine?
Not the "accident" of being a blank mask? No test scores, academic papers, or law review articles, and a Senate voting record consisting mostly of "Present" over the course of a mere half term?
Are you sure it's not the other way around, that people voted for Puff the Magic Negro, rather than demanding an actual leader?
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Date: 2012-02-21 06:16 pm (UTC)Try, "...refused to vote for a man because of the accident of his being a negro?"
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Date: 2012-02-21 09:25 pm (UTC)I only came to this over last couple years, but yes, I think time has come for national health care system. Somehow the rest of the world is not scared of it the much of US is.
Of course, compared to Santorum or Gingrich, I would vote for a corpse. A corpse would not screw anything up.
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Date: 2012-02-21 11:48 pm (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-02-22 02:02 am (UTC)It doesn't do much to control costs, though it does do some things, more than Massachusetts did. Nor does it reform how health care is administered and billed and paid for; it just reforms people being able to get health care. But that's a huge first step.
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Date: 2012-02-22 02:03 am (UTC)Uh-huh.
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Date: 2012-02-21 05:13 pm (UTC)One of the chief reasons for this is that in general free men cannot exert influence on the scale of the state. You want to cause some serious damage, pass a bunch of laws meant to protect people from themselves, implement those laws via a blind and stupid bureaucracy, enforce them with the police and military, and fund the whole putrid mess by taxing everybody who makes more than a subsistence wage (and in many cases, even them).
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Date: 2012-02-22 01:51 am (UTC)Bruce
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