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The howl against democracy
Spectator (UK) ^ | 26 June 2016 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 06/26/2016 7:52:21 PM PDT by Lorianne

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1 posted on 06/26/2016 7:52:21 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Yeah, Peter Jennings called it a “temper tantrum.”

The elites are so predictable.


2 posted on 06/26/2016 7:58:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Lorianne

The elitist establishment has no idea what fate they are tempting by even talking about pulling something like this.


3 posted on 06/26/2016 7:59:01 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Lorianne

Distortion... Like the shape of cucumbers dictated from Brussels of anyone violates... Of to jail. Those?


4 posted on 06/26/2016 7:59:50 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: Lorianne

The totalitarian commies are just piddling in their shorts. They cannot stand what is coming in terms of freedom loving peoples taking back their countries and cleaning up their democratic governments. So far, so good.


5 posted on 06/26/2016 8:07:49 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Lorianne
Here's what Britain had lost by being swallowed up by the EU controlled by Brussels:

100% control of Environment
100% control of Fishing
100% control of Farming
100% control of trade

This by a nation with the fourth largest economy in the world.

Youtube - EU REFERENDUM- The Real Face of the European Unio

If they can only be made to see a short-term buffeting to regain sovreignty.

6 posted on 06/26/2016 8:08:51 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Lorianne
Dam this sounds familiar
8 posted on 06/26/2016 8:09:17 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: Lorianne

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked ...


9 posted on 06/26/2016 8:09:51 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The official language of the United States should be Arabic. It's clear that our government is.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FyEYj2uLuY
10 posted on 06/26/2016 8:18:46 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: Steely Tom

Exactly.

Notice that when “the people” agree with the elite ruling class, then they’re all “The people have spoken.” But when “the people” disagree with them, then “the people” are suddenly ignorant, misinformed, manipulated, uneducated, blah, blah, blah, and we need to thwart their wishes “for their own good” which is doublespeak for “for the good of the elite ruling class”.


11 posted on 06/26/2016 8:29:37 PM PDT by generally
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To: Aliska

Hmmm. Is that similar to how our states have lost control of so much to the ruling class in D.C.?


12 posted on 06/26/2016 8:30:36 PM PDT by generally
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To: Lorianne

Inside every leftist is a totalitarian screaming to get out.

If things don’t go their way, they will crush us.

If things go their way, its a settled result we’re not allowed to overturn.

Either way, they win. Democracy is a Potemkin facade used to legitimize leftist tyranny.


13 posted on 06/26/2016 8:31:01 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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yep, such people are unworthy of democratic power because they will abuse it whenever they dare and would eliminate opposition at the first opportunity.


14 posted on 06/26/2016 8:35:09 PM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ginsberg’s theorem is a parody of the laws of thermodynamics in terms of a person playing a game. The quote was first attributed to the poet Allen Ginsberg in the 1975 issue of the Coevolition Quarterly[1]

he “theorem” is given as a restatement of the consequences of the first, second, and third laws of thermodynamics:[3][4][5][6]

You can’t win.
You can’t break even.
You can’t even get out of the game.

The Leaves have just proven Ginsberg’s theorem wrong.


15 posted on 06/26/2016 8:35:51 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: generally
I hadn't thought it in those terms as we are not [yet anyway] totally a part of a supra nation.

We the people don't really control any of it any more. It is as you said, directly or indirectly they control it all and a whole lot more.

I could add to that list, will just put one: Immigration. It is 100% controlled by the DC ruling class. They want to control it all then hand it over to as yet unseen super powers.

16 posted on 06/26/2016 8:48:16 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: Lorianne; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye; justa-hairyape; ...
Article from the National Review I posted on FR ....LINK:

Brexit and the end of international progressive inevitability

17 posted on 06/26/2016 9:01:35 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Steely Tom

Reminds me of how many times Californians have used our ballot Proposition process to vote for something only to have the liberals sue in the 9th District Court and thwart our will. The vote of the people in California hasn’t meant anything in 30 years now.


18 posted on 06/26/2016 9:13:36 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: Lorianne

Can’t let a bunch of white people decide anything. After all those miserable whites have the lowest crime rates and they invented the modern world. How dare they vote.


19 posted on 06/26/2016 9:16:26 PM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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To: Kellis91789

The worst part is the people have their votes annulled and they don’t even care.


20 posted on 06/26/2016 9:17:53 PM PDT by Williams (If Trump is not the nominee ... The party's over.)
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