I think the fundamental difference between you and I is that you think political power, the legal privilege of using brute force on innocent people, is totally fine if it's democratic, whereas I believe it's fine under no circumstances and ought to be absolutely minimised because it is EVIL. You support trusting majorities with political power, I am too much of a realist and have seen too much of human nature to trust such unnatural power to ANYONE UNDER THE SUN. You support maximising the authority of majorities, allowing the 51% to enslave the 49%, I support maximising the authority of individual men and women over their own lives, because no one knows how to run their lives, liberties, and properties better than themselves. A republic is not a form of democracy, a true republic is a government that stays in its one and only lane – defence against aggressive crimes and invasions, and protecting property rights – thus maximising individual autonomy and sovereignty and minimising the ability of anyone to rule over another.
Attempting to use Executive powers to decrease the deep-state can hardly be said to violate separation of powers when the Constitution created 3 branches of government, not 4. The 4th bureaucratic branch is utterly unaccountable to the people and completely unelected – as a great believer in democracy, this should bother you. But apparently your principles are whatever CNN tells you to believe, not actually carefully considered...
I don't support separation of church and state I support instead separation of state and church. That means the federal government doesn't regulate the church but the church regulates the federal government by providing it a moral compass and using it for the promotion of morality and virtue.
Consider yourself debunked.
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A LOT of assumptions are made about my opinions in this message alone, so let’s address it all shall we? For starters, I don’t support brute force, in fact, I’m mostly anti-police force in most aspects. I don’t want people’s lives oppressed, it’s about the corporations and the choice of the people. The choice isn’t by as slim of a margin as 51-49, if we are truly split on something at that level, then, depending upon circumstances, we should try and ignore that issue until the margin is higher. I believe that the benefit of the entire whole is greater… Read more
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The "assumptions" I made were not, in fact, drawn from just this comment, but endless interactions and debates we have had in the past on a wide, wide range of political issues. By brute force, I meant far more than just the police, I meant economic power as well. The government is the only human institution that can tell us to obey its will or it will drag us off in chains to prison at gunpoint. The government is the only human institution that can take our money without permission and not. be punished for it (this is known as taxation, or LEGALIZED THEFT. That's all part of… Read more
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If we are purely referring to economic power, then lessening restrictions on a companies economic maneuvering quite literally makes them just as capable, if not more, of becoming an institution worse than government. Also, the government is NOT the only institution capable of doing that, it is merely the strongest. Terrorist organizations, invading militaries, they all have that power too.
During the time of the nations founding, they were fleeing a government that was using religion to its own means, while the government itself practically worshipped the religion. Overall, religious leaders… Read more
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Unbelievable – I just thoroughly debunked you and here you are claiming that, in spite of the many quotations of our founders provided, they in fact supported the opposite of what they said... Can nothing convince you? Will you not listen to any evidence contrary to your CNN-provided viewpoint? And were you aware that the phrase "separation of church and state" comes not from the Constitution, Declaration, Articles of Confederation, State Constitutions, or any legal document, but a single case in a private letter? Were you aware that the Founders supported public funding of… Read more
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I don’t even watch CNN, this is my own study from sources across the board. Thomas Jefferson still supported separation of church and state nonetheless, and regardless, the inequalities and injustices of a single religion ruling over other religions is FAR too much of a problem to be considered worth it. Also the phrase is enshrined in our First Amendment’s bill of rights, and not all of the founding fathers supported the idea, but Jefferson very much did. The Bible swearing in isn’t a law favoring any religion’s power or ability, merely a symbol of a common religion,… Read more
