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Would You Call This a Rant?
My thoughts about democracy. I do promote democracy though:))
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Most people think of morals and think they are set.
Morals are not set, they don't exist.
Morals are merely points of view.
Morals change constantly, all the time.
Many of us think that killing is wrong.
Ask a terrorist, they think it right.
It is right for them, wrong for us.
I'm not justifying it, I'm just saying that nothing is a moral problem.
Everything is a point of view problem.
Disagree if you will, it won't change the truth.
Unless time changes the truth.

Science is the attempt to know how the world works.
It's constantly changing, nothing is certain.
Truths exist, but there is never universal consensus.
Pointless disagreements determine whether certain fallacies
hold up against proven theories and definite truths.
But time changes everything, even truths.
You may be at some point, the King of Pop,
but some one will come along sooner or later and be proclaimed the "King of Pop."
Labels are irrelevant.
The only labels are alive and dead, and male and female.
Figure out why I believe that, I don't need to explain.

There is no perfect form of government.
Tyrannies are controlled by one person or a military.
Those organizations are run by naive people.
Democracies are run by aristocrats and a president.
They say they always fail within 300 years.
Democracies become inevitably corrupt.
The people don't know what's best in every situation.
So they elect people to make those decisions.
The people rarely like their decisions in unison.
So they call to service, a new comer, a rookie.
And set him at the head of a land of the free.
He promises change, which all leaders bring.
He promises change, some good, some bad.
But as often happens, good intentions turn to bad re-thinkings.
The people are puppetized into thinking that he is the one.
They give him all their trust, and all their hope.
He mentions old friends, and former mentors.
He makes you believe they know how to work.
You swear them into the office of their choice.
Things look good at first look.
But so did the radar readings on December 7th.
The government hires nervous scientists and experts
to say to the people, "We've made significant advancements here and there across the board of the president's agenda. Everything is going fine, according to plan, and most of all, ahead of schedule."
He quotes general points like healthcare, crime, economy, war, domestic and foreign affairs.
But no specifics, no numbers, no outside sources.
But the people have faith, hope, trust, and so forth.
Soon a crisis takes shape.
One from within, the other, from abroad.
If they had happened one-at-a-time, they could have been handled.
But together, and independent, but also self-reliant, they can't be suppressed.
The leader asks the people for emergency executive powers, and promises to return them at end of troubles.
Marshal law.
The citizens trust in him, the rookie, the newbie, the kid.
They give him what he desires, with gratitude.
During the enveloping crises, he discovers, that with such power, he change dissolve at that oppose him.
He procedes to eradicate the Senate and the House.
He decides to take full power of the nation of the free.
And become they tyrant of the unknowing.
The people don't it yet though.
When at last the crises subside,
they believe it to be over.
But the events aforementioned, left the new nation crippled.
And the experts lie to the people, so used to it by now.
They sense wrong doing.
The people revolt, and take control, but realize, that perhaps, such things might be better.
They elect a new leader, for life, and with total control.
And that's how liberty dies: with thunderous applause.
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