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DrStephenTColbert on 01 September 2010
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Hephaestos said:
DrStephenTColbert said:

While I agree that the sudden installation of a Chinese or Iranian style government would be horrible, there's a point that needs to be considered.  How is the (vast) minority of the population going to oppress the majority?  America has some of the greatest individual freedoms in the world.  This has lead to the growth of a vibrant, prosperous nation that 3/4 of the rest of the world would do anything to be a part of.  I just don't understand why we worry about these non-issues when there are real and significant threats that we could be worrying about.  (I'm looking at you, North Korea)


actually... that's what any military regime/ dictatorship / monarchy (non parlementary) is about... a minority oppressing the majority.

Now this is impossible in the US for the reasons you said, but it's very probable in most places in the world.

Heck I believe France (my country) will lose its cultural values in the close future due to an overabundant immigration that does not integrate (and for the most part because it doesn't want to integrate, their initial goal is to go back home, someday)... but if I say anything like that publicly, i'd be tagged as a fascist, a nazist or whatever... when I have nothing against the immigrants, just against the innapropriate regulation of the flow at the gates.

A lack of clarity on my part.  I was referring the idea of American ideals being suppressed inside America by the minority.  Thanks for correcting me.  And you make a very salient second point.  As much as we complain about border security in the US, the illegal immigration issues in Europe are far more troubling.