Who says today’s conservatives are just fronting for the
money interests of plutocrats with their own cable news network to brainwash
idiots?
And idiots they find who long for the treatment, in great abundance.
This note about the author is at the bottom of the article.
Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated newspaper columnist.
This note about the author is at the bottom of the article.
Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated newspaper columnist.
Do these sad facts tell you anything?
I say they go a long way to proving the only persuasive argument for universal suffrage - that it enables the working and ordinary folk of the country to protect their interests against the great and the powerful - is not all it's cracked up to be.
Update, 052613, 0927 hrs EDT.
All right, I slipped.
The other persuasive argument for the suffrage - Taft's argument - is that popular government produces government popularity, in the sense of the word that entails acceptance, obedience, and loyalty.
As stabilizing factors these things make for order, itself for the most part better than available alternatives.
I say they go a long way to proving the only persuasive argument for universal suffrage - that it enables the working and ordinary folk of the country to protect their interests against the great and the powerful - is not all it's cracked up to be.
Update, 052613, 0927 hrs EDT.
All right, I slipped.
The other persuasive argument for the suffrage - Taft's argument - is that popular government produces government popularity, in the sense of the word that entails acceptance, obedience, and loyalty.
As stabilizing factors these things make for order, itself for the most part better than available alternatives.
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