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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 06:12 AM
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Exactly what does it take for politicians to cause me to throw-up?
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 06:17 AM
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1. You got me sick this early morning
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

We can't let those bastards do that this time.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 06:49 AM
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2. Government by focus group talking points or corporate fascism
...rule by Venetian Empire standards and policies and contract laws.

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BOOK IV
1. THAT THE GENERAL WILL IS INDESTRUCTIBLE

AS long as several men in assembly regard themselves as a single body, they have only a single will which is concerned with their common preservation and general well-being. In this case, all the springs of the State are vigorous and simple and its rules clear and luminous; there are no embroilments or conflicts of interests; the common good is everywhere clearly apparent, and only good sense is needed to perceive it. Peace, unity and equality are the enemies of political subtleties. Men who are upright and simple are difficult to deceive because of their simplicity; lures and ingenious pretexts fail to impose upon them, and they are not even subtle enough to be dupes. When, among the happiest people in the world, bands of peasants are seen regulating affairs of State under an oak, and always acting wisely, can we help scorning the ingenious methods of other nations, which make themselves illustrious and wretched with so much art and mystery?

A State so governed needs very few laws; and, as it becomes necessary to issue new ones, the necessity is universally seen. The first man to propose them merely says what all have already felt, and there is no question of factions or intrigues or eloquence in order to secure the passage into law of what every one has already decided to do, as soon as he is sure that the rest will act with him.

Theorists are led into error because, seeing only States that have been from the beginning wrongly constituted, they are struck by the impossibility of applying such a policy to them. They make great game of all the absurdities a clever rascal or an insinuating speaker might get the people of Paris or London to believe. They do not know that Cromwell would have been put to "the bells" by the people of Berne, and the Duc de Beaufort on the treadmill by the Genevese.

But when the social bond begins to be relaxed and the State to grow weak, when particular interests begin to make themselves felt and the smaller societies to exercise an influence over the larger, the common interest changes and finds opponents: opinion is no longer unanimous; the general will ceases to be the will of all; contradictory views and debates arise; and the best advice is not taken without question.

<direct link> http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon_04.htm

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THE SOCIAL CONTRACT OR PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL RIGHT
by Jean Jacques Rousseau 1762
Translated by G. D. H. Cole, public domain

http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 06:53 AM
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3. Insulting our intelligence by using terms like "good guys" and "bad guys"
Both Democrats and Republican leaders do this and it's disgustingly simplistic. :puke:
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-08-06 07:44 AM
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4. White hats and black hats, white horse and black horse...hehehe
...symbols and icons I suppose. Again, it is all about manipulation and control, but the Bushies are doing this to further their own selfish corrupt agenda, not for the good of America.
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