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Old 06-19-2008, 03:43 PM
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Since the United States is not a democracy, no.
Sorry, I guess that this whole, "voting" thing was actually happening.

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What you call the will of the people can just as easily be called tyranny of the majority and I oppose the tyranny of the majority.
You're stuck with either tyranny of the majority or tyranny of the minority, pick one.

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As far as the United States goes, it does matter.
So if the country was founded on racism and inequality, you'd support that we kept those qualities for all time?

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I don't consider the United States to be "grown up" in its present form. The big government nanny state is not a grown up government.
That's a personal opinion, but the point still remains that nations move on from what they were founded on, they do and should.
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