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From: IWantDemocracyNow
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  • This woman grates on my ears- even with the volume muted. Just her lips moving is enough to know she is thinking about how wonderful she thinks she is, even if she is talking about something else, darling.

  • Arianna is one of the best..bless her.

  • The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this, as evidenced not only by our republican constitutional system, but also by their writings in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere. James Madison cautioned that under a democratic government, "There is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual."

  • Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language. As a result, Americans have been conditioned to accept the word "democracy" as a synonym for freedom, and thus to believe that democracy is unquestionably good.

  • George Orwell wrote about "meaningless words" that are endlessly repeated in the political arena.* Words like "freedom," "democracy," and "justice," Orwell explained, have been abused so long that their original meanings have been eviscerated. In Orwell's view, political words were "Often used in a consciously dishonest way."

  • We've all heard the words democracy and freedom used countless times, especially in the context of our invasion of Iraq. They are used interchangeably in modern political discourse, yet their true meanings are very different.

  • Amen to gsuitter lol

  • You're all a bunch of Socialists!

    Democracy is mob rule dressed up in a sports suit.

  • you're a moronic retard dunce.

  • I'm not even going to respond to the ignorance of your response. Poor use of obstentatious malapropisms meant to addle and impress the YouTube community.

  • guess what you did respond dimwitshitard. you're so fucking dumb.

  • ..cause I felt like educating you stupid douchebaggg.

  • yeah and your big words don't impress me. you misused malapropism dumbshit (isn't that ironic). and if you thought I was so ignorant, why would you bother trying to "educate" me, LOL. You're so frickin' retarded suckwats.

  • I was being oxymoronic..lol

    okay peace peace treaty now.

    I have a black berry and I like juice and I hate not being No.1

  • These two brilliant women will get the truth out about McCain in time this time... now I can entertain thoughts of hope!

  • 6:50 "The Bible says we will be judged for what we do for the least among us"

    The Bible does not say we will be judged by the government programs we enact.

  • "Toxic curiosities".... I'm gonna use that ....

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