Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:11:23 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3lpucjd7h8urb0ejq3j8bh636n33t29q0u@4ax.com> References: <7knrcj5q82pse9ce8hjo458kkf0jfadh35@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:11:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a316a18a45d04ec8ee58923b23853d8"; logging-data="3760243"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/htkfjyPBIhLwbxohC9hKmCUpjbYsvlA0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wXt82u7j+b6wztjdPmCqPX1kflU= Bytes: 2766 On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:11:18 GMT, cyclintom wrote: >On Wed Aug 28 10:24:06 2024 AMuzi wrote: >> On 8/28/2024 9:08 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >> > On 8/27/2024 9:37 PM, AMuzi wrote: >> >> >> >> USA is a Constitutional Republic. >> >> >> >> Democracy is something else, for example where the Hutus >> >> wake up one morning and kill the Tutsis. Because they can. >> >> >> >> Or more simply, two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. >> > >> > There are very logical and practical reasons against running >> > a country as a pure democracy. That's why its essentially >> > never done. >> > >> > Even in a small town, can you imagine needing all the >> > population to vote on every administrative decision? And can >> > you imagine how random the votes would be, since very few >> > voters would understand the context of the issue, or the >> > consequences of their choice? >> > >> > And following the money, it would be easy for those with >> > profits at stake to flood the citizens with misinformation, >> > to buy the result they wanted. >> > >> >> As County welfare departments do. >> -- >> Andrew Muzi >> am@yellowjersey.org >> Open every day since 1 April, 1971 >> > > > > >Name ONE case of an election being bought except the 2020 election. It seems to me that current administration's free money give away policy is an attempt to do that. The college student's loan payoffs with taxpayer money is an example.