Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> Jo
> Yes, but that doesn't answer my point. The road to hell is paved with
> good intentions, Joe, and what occured in Germany in the 1930's is a
> direct result of those 'democratizing', liberal, policies enacted from
> good intentions in the 1920's.
As I am sure you know there are many who with disagree with you
with tons of argument to back them up. Germany was in pretty
sad shape after WWI and the disasterous terms forced upon the
country. Another factor was a cultural value and philosophical
collapse that left a vacuum for any sort of 'meaning'. Sound
familiar?
>
> We have some rather significant checks in our system to protect against
> this occuring here for good reason. While one could argue that
> eliminating them may not cause any harm so long as everybody acts in
> good faith, the system is designed to function even when a large number
> of people are acting in bad faith, as so many actors in the current day
> political process are doing.
>
We have no adequate protection from much the same thing
happening here.
- samantha
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