01-04-2017, 02:00 AM
(01-03-2017, 01:54 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(01-03-2017, 07:12 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-30-2016, 08:09 AM)Odin Wrote:(12-30-2016, 12:14 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-28-2016, 08:19 AM)Odin Wrote: These Fascist lunatics are a threat to a free society. They are exactly the type Popper was talking about when he said that we might have to suppress the intolerant to preserve a tolerant society.
I think I have heard something very similar to this a long time ago: We have to destroy the village to save it.
More like exiling a few troublemakers from the village.
Given the vote totals in the last election it would seem like you want to exile half the population. Clearly more than a few troublemakers.
How long will that support last? Donald Trump did little better than Dukakis in 1988 or McCain in 2008, and we are to give him full power to establish an absolute plutocracy?
In light of Trump's latest effort I must question the validity of your conclusions. Trump hasn't even got the keys to the White House and he appears to actually be trying to drain the swamp.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises