Re:Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you down
by CWuestefeld on Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:52AM
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A fair reply, thanks. Maybe we're not so different as the initial disagreement would show.
The system is a two party stable oligarchy anyway.
I've been saying this forever. DEM and GOP are just two sides of the same coin, with barely a hair's breadth of difference between them.
If hard money is wrong, soft money should be too.
Logically that makes sense, but I'm arriving at a different solution than you. I think that the freedom of speech (together with some others, like self-defense, property rights, and freedom to engage in contracts) are paramount. Because our system is fundamentally designed to guarantee natural rights, but only incidentally democratic, when rights and voting are in tension, it should be the freedom of speech that wins over electoral procedures.
The system is a two party stable oligarchy anyway.
I've been saying this forever. DEM and GOP are just two sides of the same coin, with barely a hair's breadth of difference between them.
If hard money is wrong, soft money should be too.
Logically that makes sense, but I'm arriving at a different solution than you. I think that the freedom of speech (together with some others, like self-defense, property rights, and freedom to engage in contracts) are paramount. Because our system is fundamentally designed to guarantee natural rights, but only incidentally democratic, when rights and voting are in tension, it should be the freedom of speech that wins over electoral procedures.