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what's wrong with strong political ideas, as long as they're the right ones?
by smegsicle 2y ago
what's wrong with strong political ideas, as long as they're the right ones?
- nitrogen 2y ago> as long as they're the right ones? Which ones are the right ones? Yours? Mine?
- _heimdall 2y agoI honestly can't tell it the was meant sarcastically. Who defines what the "right" political idea is? And do you really want to live in a society limited only to ideas that are deemed as the "right" ones by whoever has that power?
- ulrikrasmussen 2y agoThat's kind of how society works and why we have democracy.
- _heimdall 2y agoWhat do you mean? Who defines the "right" political ideas in a democracy? My understanding is that a democracy would exist to allow the majority of a society to define what they want, and that in the US we have a democratic republic because our founders still didn't trust the public enough to leave decisions entirely to a majority vote of the public.