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Entries Tagged ‘politics’

What Does the Mirror of Democracy Reflect?

N.B. I am not Davy Many people will often uphold democracy as true freedom. They will say democracy is representative of “the people”, that it is for “the people” and that it reflects the needs of “the people”. Some “libertarians”, who disagree, may say that democracy is 51% or more of the population against 49% or [...]

Want to know why you shouldn’t discuss politics at the dinner table?

I’m going to cross post this here because I think it’s important. I originally posted this on my FB wall: WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU SHOULDN’T DISCUSS POLITICS AT THE DINNER TABLE? So if two people have a disagreement about their favourite film or their favourite ice cream or their preferred colour of duvet cover [...]

Video of the day: Arnold Schwarzenegger introduces Milton Friedman’s ‘Free to Choose’

Watching Schwarzenegger articulate what freedom means some 20 years ago is yet another reminder that politics corrupts everything. Just like Rand Paul, it doesn’t matter if the person “gets” freedom, or economics, once they get into the political process and want to actually win they become compromised, limp and ineffective. Is California today a state [...]

  

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