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TayTay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-18-09 08:16 PM
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3. But these are the duly elected representatives of the people in their district
If we have a problem with these people then primary them, file lawsuits against them or do other things that this democracy allows.

However, I find calling them "traitors" and "public enemies" to be arrogant and backwards.

Who gets to declare what makes a duly elected representative of the people a traitor? Where does this end? Is anyone who disagrees with the goals of alleged "progressives" a traitor?

I want nothing to do with the agenda of these people. Nothing. They have irrevocably lost me.


Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.

Oscar Wilde -- http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Wilde/gaol/">The Ballad of Reading Goal


Long live citizen democracy. Unless the bastards vote for someone I don't like. Then, screw democracy it only enables traitors.

bastids. friggin bastids. They willingly enable so much damage.
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