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GreenEyedLefty

(2,115 posts)
1. When I am touched by any of the above, personally.
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 09:37 PM
Jan 2014

John Locke alluded to this in his treatises on government... that revolution becomes necessary when people can feel the tyranny.

"But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel, what they lie under, and whither they are going, 'tis not to be wondered, that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands, which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first enacted". (Second Treatise, Chapter 19).

I think people are so blinded by party allegiance that they cannot see that the line between the two parties is so thin as to be virtually non-existent. I confess to be one of these people. It hurts me to think that my party is as bought and sold as the Republican party, but it is looking to be so. It's painful to contemplate.

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When I am touched by any of the above, personally. GreenEyedLefty Jan 2014 #1
"..the line between the two parties is so thin as to be virtually non-existent." xfundy Jan 2014 #6
When the elections are canceled (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #2
Why cancel them Bonobo Jan 2014 #3
Yep... In Poker... That's Known As A "Tell"... WillyT Jan 2014 #4
So the corporate overlords preferred Obama to Romney? Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #9
No, either were acceptable. Bonobo Jan 2014 #11
I don't know, one stolen election, gerrymandering, NuclearDem Jan 2014 #5
THIS... (I Don't Know How To Make An Up Arrow)... WillyT Jan 2014 #8
Upper Case Number "6" left on green only Jan 2014 #23
A grade B actor becomes President should be clue enough, right? Coyotl Jan 2014 #7
How about a peanut farmer? (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #10
Has to be someone, but the peanut farmer wasn't working for a gang of crooks and robber barons. Coyotl Jan 2014 #12
+1 Go Vols Jan 2014 #17
Didn't hear of Reagan majoring in reactor technology Lars39 Jan 2014 #14
The peanut farmer also studied post-graduate-level reactor technology and nuclear physics ... Shampoobra Jan 2014 #20
OK, point taken. I didn't know that (nt) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 #21
I have to add that the Peanut Farmer Dread Pirate Roberts Jan 2014 #22
Amen. I don't think we even deserved a president of his caliber left on green only Jan 2014 #24
He was more than just a "peanut farmer." factsarenotfair Jan 2014 #27
Farmers are almost generally very practical people, who actually know how to grow their own food. Zorra Jan 2014 #30
I like many of your posts Beearewhyain Jan 2014 #13
"When I am not able to see a post like this." WillyT Jan 2014 #15
That is, in fact, my point Beearewhyain Jan 2014 #16
"Survived" is enlightenment Jan 2014 #31
Just look in the rear view mirror ... Gordon Alf Shumway Jan 2014 #18
Selection 2000 was the final seal for me. K&R Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #19
I'd say we haven't been a democracy since at least the 1950's CFLDem Jan 2014 #25
I agree with others here that it happened a long time ago... polichick Jan 2014 #26
After the government's zombie apocalypse. JoePhilly Jan 2014 #28
When people on a blog site can't complain about the overthrow of our Democracy... brooklynite Jan 2014 #29
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