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I'm highly skeptical of the idea that democracy is somehow inherently worse than other forms of government. While it's by no means perfect, if you look at democratic countries, the people generally tend to be freer (both socially and economically) than those that live in non-democratic countries...
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Secession is the only real hope. Maintain the free trade and common labor market, but get rid of the Euro and leave the political sphere. Losing your sovereignty to a national government is bad, but getting it lost to a multi-national government is even worse.
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Anybody seen this? It's a petition, being sent to NBC, to attempt to suppress the airing of a documentary on nationalized vs. private health care. It was posted by a friend on his FaceBook page. I posted the following comment in response: "You mean I could have circulated a petition to suppress...
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As you will find on the here mentionned links, the Hanseatic League's spirit has already been re-started in the city of Zwolle in the Netherlands, in 1980. You will find it at www.hanse.org The actual president is the Mayor of the city of Luebeck in Germany. Since 1980, you have in summer, Hanseatic...
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The problem with this is that democracy is just a way to make group decisions. This notion of direct democracy could apply to a family which decides all matters by vote (I do not advocate this), or a worker owned production facility (industrial or agricultural) that makes and approves its plans by vote...
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"I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. [...] When the suckers are running well the spectacle is infinitely exhilarating." That pretty much sums up Mencken's view of democracy, an opinion that he supports through a 206-page treasure trove...
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http://dschere.blogspot.com/2009/02/is-our-democracy-turning-into-pirate.html This may sound like an over the top question, but Pirates of the colonial period, believe it or not, were democratic in that they voted for their Captains. Though they were criminals, lead by the likes of Edward Teach (aka...
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-02-08_098_the_left_the_right_and_the_state.mp3
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In the market: - the products that everyone buys are the products that will become cheaper. - the products the majority shuns are extremely hard to get. So isn't the market the absolute form of democracy? The decision about prices isn't determined by you, but emerges out of the prefference of...
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Well it's a department that is most revered in America, mostly hated, some give thanks to it, others despise it for it's strict police policies, but it invites fear into our society that had remain peaceful and prosperous for many years. And that department is none other than Homeland Security...