Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Is the US actually a democracy? | Ganesh Sitaraman | Big Think" video.

  1. Don't blame your failure as a human being on others, or a system.
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  2. That's closer to the truth than what this Bolshevik says it is.
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  3. ACA was imperfect, and Trump, who has kept his promises, will not take that protection away, you are either being lied to, or you are lying to us. Even the upcoming court case will take months, if not a year to get a decision, and even then, there are protections in ACA which can be retained. I am a registered Dem in California who is self-employed and could not afford ACA, and my choices became less, not more, then I faced an IRS penalty, which Trump took away, so thanks to Trump, and why this Dem is voting for him in Nov.
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  4. We already have 50, but this guy wants to shove you into his one house so you work for him, a slave to the new Bolshevism. Electoral College, use it, or lose it, and all your freedoms with it. Time to push back on these wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  5. Agreed, Pelosi is nuts.
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  6. I'm a photographer and history buff, this is a fundamental change which will alter the social contract in ways we do not yet understand, not so random, thanks for mentioning it.
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  7. The industrial revolution was making slavery obsolete, it was the extremism of Abolitionist that pushed us into Civil War. Capitalism required consumers and technically trained workers, not illiterate body slaves. Carbon, and the invention of the electric motor in 1837, would have freed the slaves, and would have done a much better job of it. The South was done as an economic system, a war was not necessary, nor is the one being instigated now.
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  8. He is not presenting a fully dimensional picture of either democracy or capitalism, but only the narrow view of a Bolshevik.
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  9. Yes, The Fourteenth Amendment is just for rich white guys, give me a break, he needs to get out of his "political science bubble", but in truth, the last thing this guy wants is democracy, he's a political predator attempting to herd his prey into a corral he will feed off of, that's the history not told. He's a "Gramsci" style Bolshevik on the long march to steal your power of agency and stick you in a collective where you better sit down, shut up, or be canceled.
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  10. If you are a citizen of America, you are among the 1% in the world. No question hyper-efficiencies and globalsim have squeezed the middle-class, but a pure democracy will not cure that. There will always be hierarchies, especially when science tells us that 3% of the people to 50% of the work. You want you fair share, go work for it.
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  11.  @ThexBorg  You have the rhetoric of a Bolshevik down pretty good, maybe it will work this time, NOT.
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  12.  @ThexBorg  Yeah, Nihilism kills, so sorry for you.
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  13.  @ThexBorg  I plead guilty, been in lockdown too long and losing discipline, thanks for the kick in th @ss. But the Bolshevik comment is solid, you just don't care.
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  14. Yes, get ready to be shove into a pre-determined intersectional category were you better shut up or be canceled. It's no secret, it's in their literature, on their websites, and in their classrooms. I think the DOJ needs to categorize them as domestic terrorists.
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  15. Yeah, look up the history of "Social Contracts", then get back to us.
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  16.  @charlesbrightman4237  Yeah, but ZERO is merely an abstraction, so your entire foundation for truth is invalid.
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  17. 3% of the people do 50% of the work, so there will always be an elite, anywhere you go, regardless of political framework.
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  18. I agree, freedom is personal, it exists as the power of your individual agency, but as social animals, we need to make good faith agreements with each other, and the best way we've invented to do that is the vote. But we've learned a pure democracy breeds tyranny, and so requires moderation, and that's why America is a Republic, as Ben Franklin said, "If We Can Keep It". Democracy comes FROM the Freedom of the individual, not the other way around. That's what this Bolshevik doesn't want you to know.
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