Open Thread

Etson – rights and democracy do not necessarily correlate.

those that are insecure about their own intelligence often are the ones constantly questioning other peoples intelligence. – Cher

lechacal, Blah blah blah. We get it. You’re so intellectual.

We know YOU think you’re so much brighter than everyone here. But you aren’t. So clam up and go get some work done and earn that mega bucks paycheck.

Democracy is so crass. When you really boil down all of my thoughts on elections it just comes down to the fact that I hate democracy.

Democracy did not lead to the rise of freedom or prosperity. It coincided with it. Now everyone wrongly attributes causation to a correlative relationship.

Democracy gives control to little minds. Not control really, there’s just this ridiculous process where people get the illusion of choice and talk so earnestly about things they will never really understand. They blame politicians for things they have no control over, and politicians promise things they can never deliver, and people become single issue voters on topics they don’t understand, topics that they feel strongly about only because they have been presented to them all packaged up in dumb little pieces in the press.

Hobbes was right.