I don't understand where this belief in an all-powerful cabal of unified business interests that move swiftly, silently, and unilaterally to stamp out all forms of freedom comes from.
Is Merit not able to spew his ill-informed and regressive conspiracies without fear of arrest of censure? Are all of you not free to choose to vote or to stay home and internet warrior how the rest of us are sheep that will all die slaves?
How shortsighted must the government be that they developed and then essentially released for free the most comprehensive and easily accessible collection of information that has ever been imagined by man. How foolish that our omnipotent overlords allow us to discuss these ideas without having to operate behind impenetrable pseudonyms, carefully disguising our tracks for fear of being disappeared to a frozen gulag.
American Representative Democracy has flaws. But point to a better system. If you can't, then all of your bellyaching is self-pitying intellectual masturbation.
150 years ago, black people were enslaved.
60 years ago, black people couldn't sit at the front of the bus.
10 years ago homosexuals couldn't serve openly in the military.
5 years ago 20 million uninsured Americans were granted access to healthcare markets they could not previously afford.
Government created some of the these problems, but that's a reflection of the people that work there. Just like the people who worked to correct these problems.
I think most of you just hate other people.
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Originally Posted by Orphiel
Insulting them is like making fun of someone for being fat; 90% of the time, it doesn't persuade them to try to fit your standards, it just makes them hate the world and become less likely to participate in it. You're just one more voice screaming at them to care about a system that doesn't care about them.
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Because not caring about the system is giving in to something you see as unjust. It's feckless, it's defeatist, and it surrenders one's moral standing to have any say in the system. This doesn't excuse its flaws. But it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater - and after we know the "baby" grows, improves, and slowly but surely has generated a greater amount of wealth, health, and freedom of personal action than almost anywhere else in the world.