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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-19-04 04:06 PM
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9. Who would you exclude?
I think Chris Matthews got close to this with Ann Coulter once. If liberals are traitors who should be ignored, who should be allowed to have a voice in public debate?

Should we exclude communists is the most obvious starting point or parties that openly call for abolishing democracy.

The other side of this though is that if their ideas are so wrong, isn't it likely that they won't get very far?

Why were we so afraid of political (not military) communism if it was so fatally flawed? If that's the case, then even applying it at a local level here would have had disastrous results and it would have died a natural death instead of being a boogie man.

My point is the right is screaming about spreading democracy while the are practicing it as little as possible here.
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