PugJesus@piefed.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacitymedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square40linkfedilinkarrow-up1518arrow-down16
arrow-up1512arrow-down1imageThe curse of knowing conservatives in any capacitymedia.piefed.socialPugJesus@piefed.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前message-square40linkfedilink
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up45arrow-down1·edit-27 个月前The median voter is batshit insane. This has been true since ~1787.
minus-squarekrashmo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·7 个月前The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with an average voter.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·7 个月前And the best argument for democracy is a 5 minute conversation about every other form of government.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 个月前To paraphrase Churchill. Democracy is a terrible system of government, shame it’s the best we’ve created thus far.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 个月前Wow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen. To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 个月前Yet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 个月前That we’ve tried so far… Don’t lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·7 个月前Only that we have republics and not democracies.
minus-squareFelisCatusDomesticus@social.vivaldi.netdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 个月前@krashmo @LodeMike
minus-squareFelisCatusDomesticus@social.vivaldi.netdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 个月前@LodeMike @PugJesus
The median voter is batshit insane. This has been true since ~1787.
The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with an average voter.
And the best argument for democracy is a 5 minute conversation about every other form of government.
Also true
To paraphrase Churchill. Democracy is a terrible system of government, shame it’s the best we’ve created thus far.
Wow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen.
To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
Yet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.
That we’ve tried so far…
Don’t lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.
Only that we have republics and not democracies.
@krashmo @LodeMike
@LodeMike @PugJesus
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