Re:I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
by jknoepfler on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:31AM
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Under what conditions, exactly, do you think democracy originally came to be? This is a really bizarre, historically nonsensical comment that is unnecessarily dismissive of people who have sacrificed lives or livelihoods to pave the way for fundamental human rights in their country.
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Re:I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
by taway_1212 on Saturday July 15, 2017 @03:38AM
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Democracy used to include only middle and upper class people (i.e. you had to have some wealth to be able to vote) and was only relatively recently extended to everyone.
Re:I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (2009)
by amygdyl on Saturday July 15, 2017 @04:05AM
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Exactly.
In my father's life, it was not allowed to vote unless you were the owner outright of property and women gained suffrage in his early years. My father lacked a birth certificate, and this prevented him from voting, until resolved. Imagine every child of a single parent family disenfranchised...