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Why the West Must End Democracy
Youtube ^ | 1 September 2018 | Way of the World

Posted on 12/17/2018 9:39:49 AM PST by ShadowAce

WotW weighs the pros and cons of Western democracy and calls for new ideas to address the unique problems of our time.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: clickbait; democracy; globalism; thewest
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1 posted on 12/17/2018 9:39:49 AM PST by ShadowAce
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To: ShadowAce

Without clicking, I’d guess it’s global warming.


2 posted on 12/17/2018 9:40:37 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Vote your bible.)
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To: ShadowAce

We should restore the Constitutional Republic we once had.


3 posted on 12/17/2018 9:41:19 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ShadowAce

It’s worth the 12 minutes to watch this video.


4 posted on 12/17/2018 9:41:24 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: DungeonMaster

It has nothing to do with global warming


5 posted on 12/17/2018 9:41:42 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Ditto that


6 posted on 12/17/2018 9:42:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Without some major reforms to that, we would just be right back in this place again.

I agree, though, that a Constitutional Republic is the best form of government.

7 posted on 12/17/2018 9:43:11 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Let me guess — totalitarian, despotic control, probably by marxists and communists.


8 posted on 12/17/2018 9:44:36 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DungeonMaster

Democracy can be easily defined as mobocracy, as our founders understood. The cure is a republic, held in check by an armed educated informed public.


9 posted on 12/17/2018 9:44:45 AM PST by Pecos (Better the one you have with you than the one you left at home.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Wrong. Just watch the video.


10 posted on 12/17/2018 9:45:10 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Pecos
Democracy can be easily defined as mobocracy, as our founders understood. The cure is a republic, held in check by an armed educated informed public.

Oh sure. The ole; Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for dinner.

11 posted on 12/17/2018 9:46:46 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Vote your bible.)
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To: ShadowAce

Execute every pol that makes a policy proposal that reduces net individual autonomy and privacy? Gotta run out eventually?


12 posted on 12/17/2018 9:47:37 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: ShadowAce

BFL


13 posted on 12/17/2018 9:48:24 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: ShadowAce

Repeal the 19th ... problem solved


14 posted on 12/17/2018 9:49:19 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: ShadowAce

Not sure it’s what the headline implies.

https://www.patreon.com/wayoftheworld

But I’m not paying to unlock the article.
I’ll watch the video with CC turned on.


15 posted on 12/17/2018 9:49:42 AM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: rlmorel

We are a Republic!!!!


16 posted on 12/17/2018 9:49:54 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: Don Corleone

I am going to watch it when I get home. I am curious...as you said, we don’t have a democracy.

People use “Democracy” as shorthand for “Republic” in the same way some people use “Liberal” as shorthand for “Leftist”.


17 posted on 12/17/2018 9:54:19 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel
People use “Democracy” as shorthand for “Republic” in the same way some people use “Liberal” as shorthand for “Leftist”.

That is correct. Keep in mind, though, that both republics and "true" democracies both suffer from this issue he is talking about in this video, so just pretend he is talking about republics as well.

18 posted on 12/17/2018 10:00:18 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: bankwalker

Accusing all women of voting left-wing? Trump’s victory counted on a lot of female voters.

What needs to go are the Sixteenth and Seventeenth.


19 posted on 12/17/2018 10:00:41 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ShadowAce

Bingo !~


20 posted on 12/17/2018 10:01:37 AM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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