green wrote:
you better brush up before you start teaching here on UHH.
A republic is actually a type of democracy... Technically, our country is a constitutionally limited representative democratic republic. The constitution limits the power of government. We elect representatives, so it's not a pure democracy. But we do elect them by majority rule so it is democratic.
also, in this country, you are allowed to criticize the government without being punished or told to leave.
you better brush up before you start teaching here... (
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Green,
Your argument has so many wholes in it. It's starting to look like Swiss Cheese.
Firstly,
You knew what the point was. You just didn't agree with it.
I do give you some credit here. You are not stupid.
Secondly the point made in the topic is valid. Comparing homogenous societies to those that are not is disingenuous.
Moreover, a society will have more problems when "Diversity" enters a society. Look at Sweden now.
I am not debating diversity.
When you import cultures and religions that neither support nor respect diversity you are going to have problems.
I have no problem with Legal Mexican immigration.
When you have a population that moves here to make more here but less than the average and compare that to a culture without that the statistics become irrelevant and flawed.
People get locked into statistics. The statistic becomes their truth. They throw out all cognitive thinking in praise of the statistics.
There are lots of arguments to debate and defend for and against Trump.
Your argument on this topic(all of them) are weak.
"There are liars, there are damn liars, and then there are statisticians."
and finally.
A free system allows us to verbally defend arguments, including Trumps arguments about the "Free Mainstream Press" not being objective or unfair.
Look at the interviews and coverage from the "Free Press" on OBAMA vs Trump.
If you can say, after you watch that coverage back to back, that the Press is unbiased and fair, you are not objective.
Trump has never advocated that the press is not to be free. It doesn't mean he can't attack them with the same rhetoric they use against him.
The power of the pen or word.
Lincoln freed the slaves, he also went after the press.
Things are just a little different now.
All may be fair in love and war, however, the observer and voter is the judge of who wins.
"Go where thy wilt, do what thy wilt, and say what thy wilt" but initiate no force.
Saying what thy wilt has penalties on both sides.
Taking a refugee that is forced to leave because of war, where his ideas are different but no better than the people fighting in his on country, is a recipe for disaster.