FEDIT POLITICS Thread

Given enough time, everything is doomed to failure.

 

I never know what you mean, TBH.

 

Don't threaten me with a good time!

 

tautologies are tight!

 

careful

 

Every popular opinion is a bad idea and eventually doomed to failure.
But its popular for a reason... or more likely a season.
Democracy was a new religion. Religion is always the best way to move the masses.
Voting was done by the religious practitioners that belonged to their cities cult.
Each city was governed as its own state and each had their own culture where dedication and worship was made to a particular cult.
That made you a citizen. Which means someone who takes care of a thing. Public care of a thing is where we get the word Republica.
Private care of a thing is the term Cosa Nostra and that is private enterprise/small business.
The 5% of people that have the right to vote is not as small a number as it looks.
It was the heads of households who provided ritual duties to the state sponsored cult.
The ones who truly cared about Athena paid their dues practiced the rituals of her cult by dropping their white or black stone.
Athens was filled with people but the philosophical ideas of resident citizen and immigrant have always existed.
And before the paper passport was widespread but after physical branding on the scalp or body was no longer socially acceptable people had issues with xenophobia and with carpetbaggery.
This is how the Athenians determined who was merely resided in Athens or who was just passing through and staying for a while vs who actually cared for Athens.
Why would the wishes of someone who just got here and does not like it here and wants to change it here count as much as the wishes of those who love it here and will always be here to defend it? Or the vote of someone who has always been here but who would flee to greener pastures if things get tough rather than use their wealth to help defend our shared values from being taken.
Those families whose head of household showed up to vote would philosophically speaking be the true citizens who would stay and defend the women and youth against invading forces of propaganda from the east.
Socialist Babylon was headed by the Persians, Medes, Assyrians, etc at the time of the Greeks.

The ones who didn't fight or who didn't stay to protect the weak were those attached to the communist oligarchs who fled to their retreats with their retainers and servants were the first to join forces with an invading enemy.
The families of the children of these retainers and retreated oligarchs who spread all over europe and the mediterranean coasts became the origin of the 'pagans'.

The voting citizens of athens became the center of civility and culture with their attempt at a religion of philosophical democracy which the founding fathers also tried their hand at. The spiritual church that is special and separate from the physical state that is materially corruptible became the idea behind the right to vote. Do you love us and are one with us or are you just here for a good time and will leave on your own if things get heavy?
The children of the families of those that stayed in Athens by they resident or immigrant who fought against or resisted the invaders were counted as citizens.

 

Tautologies are super easy, barely an inconvenience.

 

That debate would be epic.
If nothing else, just for the meme material that would come out of that.