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Re: Sweden Kills Democracy

Alex Harris — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:02:10 -0000

Speedmaster is right. It's not really anti-democracy, just anti-privacy - and probably enables anti-liberty policies. Unfortunately, in the U.S. today, "democracy" has become a synonym for "good" - anything good is democratic and anything democratic is good.

Re: Sweden Kills Democracy

Speedmaster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:57:27 -0000

That's certainly a bad bit of news for liberty and smaller govt. fans. ;-(

But I don't think it's necessarily anti-democracy, is it? Isn't democracy just majority-rule, or perhaps mob-rule? If the majority of people support this, I think would still be considered democratic.