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Hezbollah Chief: US “Directly Responsible” For Gaza Atrocities, Will Soon Pay “Heavy Price”
(www.gulf-insider.com)
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In a representative democracy, the people being responsible for their government is kind of the point.
Yeah. But we are an oligarchy.
Except representative democracy is a myth… Majority rule ≠ representation. Non-majority groups are unaccounted for. Plus, while the people may vote for representatives, they ultimately have no control over what said representatives decide to actually do. They can campaign for and promise all they want, but once they’re in office, they’re there.
Citizens are not responsible for the actions of their government.
I don’t think most people realize that members of congress can’t be recalled.
As a legal matter, maybe not. As a practical matter I'm pretty sure it is evident.
You can't simultaneously support democracy and say that the citizens aren't responsible for their government.
Either democracy is a failure or it isn't.
That’s what I’m saying. Most current democratic systems are a failure
Direct voting is the future.
If your first thought from reading this is that "evil muslims will bomb me in acts of terrorism" then your brain has been irreparably poisoned by US state department funded Hollywood movies
How do I make this atrocity all about me, a westerner
Excuse me?
I feel like being nervous in response to blatant threats to my nation - and by extent its populous, including myself - is fairly reasonable
Are you American? No part of the article comes close to implying they want to target American civlians:
They are clearly talking about defending against an American intervention. Hurting American civilians in Amrerica would be even more strategically stupid than cruel so I don't know why you jumped to that conclusion. Maybe you are projecting the American tradition of imposing collective punishment on civilians as they do in cases of their interventions and economic sanction. Unless you want just to fantasise about Muslim hordes in which case you read it however you want.