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It has made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate by waging wars of extermination against them I agree with a lot of your post, but it wasn't any
by WildUtah 13y ago
It has made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate by waging wars of extermination against them
I agree with a lot of your post, but it wasn't anything the US government did that made all non-democratic forms of government illegitimate. They have all been illegitimate since the very first time a gang of stronger men beat and killed a weaker one just because they could.
- mindslight 13y agoBut when the beating is instead performed by a large gang of weak men, it's legitimate?
- jemfinch 13y agoExcept that democracy itself consists of a gang of more people beating up gangs of fewer people just because they can. It merely substitutes numbers for strength. Neither might nor popularity makes right.
- barry-cotter 13y agoIllegitimate as in outside the bounds of polite society's discourse, not as in something you abhor.