There's nutters in every race, posting a video by some nut job to try and justify the murder, torture, kidnapping and rape of of innocents by Hamas just shows how demented you are. There's some fucked up racist whack jobs on this forum - if you need to dig around the net looking for something someone said to justify killing babies you are a fucking weirdo.
Worship is any form of veneration of something beyond its intrinsic value. Just because it is a trained 2nd nature to you, doesn’t change the fact that it is an accumulating respect, to which that you fashion your life around; consciously or otherwise.
Voting for someone does not require veneration of that person, it doesn't even require you to like or respect that person. It only signals that you believe they'd be good for the job, or at least better than their opponent(s). So here we are going around in circles again because you need to reach for that false equivalency. Democrats simply do not deify politicians in the same way the Republicans did for GWB and Donald Trump. You might find one or two fringe exceptions which prove the rule, but nothing approaching the mass cult mentality constantly being demonstrated by the right.
Actually Islamic Jihad fired a missile towards Isreal yesterday (just like the thousands of others they have in the past week and a half), it was a dud and they blew up their own hospital (which they tried to blame Isreal for), so an own goal on their part - which killled over 500 of their own citizens. Apparently the Palestinians are now rioting like trapped rats in a cage,
It's been "tangible" for hundreds of years. And in the modern day, the absence of democracy lends power to sadistic authoritarians instead, such as Putin and Netanyahu. By your logic, apathy and taking democracy for granted would indicate worship of and reverence for men like that.
The Trump campaign ran on no policy platform whatsoever, therefore it was a victory for policy platforms in general when Biden won.
Not hard to reconcile. Democracy is not bigoted/xenophobic, but people historically have been.
Rather you idealize it to count as such in your head, but the results of voter apathy are still much different in reality.
First, that's one hell of an overinflated ego you've got on you, and second, that doesn't excuse apathy when it comes to local elections. I guess maybe you don't give a shit about your own community, either.
Republican party stopped submitting a national platform before Trump's time, actually. Easier for them to fall back on the Southern Strategy it would seem.
Yeah, it's just like god. An idea that you cannot demonstrate in reality. Also, like communism. It is as I said.
Right. Without democracy, it can only be an ideal. That was the inference. Glad you picked up on it.
Maybe I just value my vote more than you do yours. You'll roll over for any old man that's not Trump, and then call it "a platform". Local government also suffers from the same false premise of representation and social interest. The problem is that the government is centralized, so it can never originate from the will of the people. If I personally knew someone who was running for office, more intimately than what's conveyed over the tv radio, I'd consider voting for them. But I wouldn't pretend that I am living in a democracy.
The Republican party is simply supposed to be "less government", but people who buy into that nonsense fall in the same trap as you do. You can't have less government by encouraging more people to get involved in it. The resulting two parties are people who want more government vs. hypocrites, and the con-artists will play both, in an ever-growing institutional entity which values people as currency.
It's not nearly so mysterious or obtuse as that. Elections demonstrate the democratic process regularly, and not just in the US. You personally might have an inexplicable need to conflate politics with religion/spirituality, but we don't all have your specific weaknesses, now do we?
Local representatives are not untouchable beings made of light, lmao. If you want to get to know them better before voting for them, that's a fairly easy to accomplish goal, via town/city hall meetings if nothing else. Then again, I'm talking to someone who pretends laziness and apathy are virtues, so I guess that's expecting too much.
Don't use the word "votes" when you mean something else completely. Russia has never been a democracy as long as I've lived.
In what world does that make any logical sense? Trump is currently facing accountability for his criminal actions, one after the other. His business "empire" built on fraud has been taken away from him. That would not be possible if he were still in office. Elections have consequences.
Only contrasting would make any logical sense in this context. Democracy keeps on going whether you "believe" in it or not. It's not omniscient or omnipresent. It's just a system of people doing jobs, no point in trying to mystify it. Same deal with communism, just a system of governance and economic theory rolled into one. If your politicians are also your gods, that's entirely a you problem.
Elon Musk isn't running for any office, and Trump lived the vast majority of his life in the public eye before running for office. You can absolutely profile people with that kind of exposure. Turns out, the magic ingredient with billionaires is always narcissism and/or megalomania.
Those "people" are called corporations, and they do have an outsized influence on the US government. One of the many ways that US democracy is indeed flawed, I'll not dispute that.
A dictator can simply say everyone supports him even if the reality is that almost nobody does. Putin has never concerned himself with the popularity of his actions.
You cannot reach a total consensus on anything in this world without coercion/threats of violence. That doesn't make minority rule or authoritarianism the preferable option, as you're seemingly suggesting.
You know as well as I do that his crimes extend to his time in office too. He would be immune to ALL prosecution if he were re-elected, so yes, I'll say again, elections have consequences. For better and worse.
Entirely incorrect. If Nixon and GWB had been prosecuted for their crimes, Trump never would've run for office in the first place. The precedent has to be established at some point, and it's better late than never. I'm guessing you wouldn't be so angry about that self-correction if it was anybody else bearing the brunt of it.
