If people already hate you, go ahead and push it through

[sreya]

Okay, so that's a simplification of what the Democrat pundit on the morning news said... it was closer to -

"Democrats have already walked the plank on health care, they should push it through so it's done and then move forward."

Wait, so our Congressional representatives should do something they're being told we don't want them to do because we'

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[izuko]

The problem is, we've started to think of the government as an entity, complete with rights and interests. We believe that it has a RIGHT to power and, in exchange, it provides us with a pittance of security. We've come to think of our freedoms as something to barter with, and that it's acceptable to give and take the liberty of others, so long as it's done under the cover of democracy.

We need to force the idea that all the laws and the constitution are outgrowths of the consent of the governed, and that no law is legitimate while forced on its subjects, regardless of the process used to make it.

[mosinging1986]

Well said.

[lazypadawan]

"It's not authoritarianism if we do it."