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Hortensis

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27. Erronis, you left out voters. I can't argue that some citizens

Reply to erronis (Reply #15)

Sun Dec 6, 2020, 05:01 PM

Dec 2020

aren't peasants and serfs at heart -- they obviously exist; but no citizen with the vote actually is. Basic stuff.

It does seem to me that a citizen who denied he had the power and responsibilities of citizenship would be behaving like a self-made emotional peasant. And psychologists say many are anxious to be rid of both, just not emotionally suited to democracy.

This, btw, is not to insult by association those real peasants in the relatively few places remaining on this planet who have no such power and no such choices to make.

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Erronis, you left out voters. I can't argue that some citizens Hortensis Dec 2020 #27

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