Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918
by yucky on Saturday November 26, 2022 @03:36PM
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Democracy is mob rule. When one says that democracy decides what is a crime and what is not, one is then defending a long history of lynchings, miscegenation, slavery, forced medical procedures, Jim Crow laws and much much more.
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Re:Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918
by deadpannini on Sunday November 27, 2022 @08:16AM
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Will any downvoters comment? I think democracy is the best option we have, but ignoring its weaknesses and checkered history isn't constructive.
The current democracy-worship afoot in the US ignores the fact that almost every progressive aspect of the US state sprang from a counter-majoritarian institution: Roe and Brown, plus the administrative implementation of civil rights law.