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InsideOutSanta • yesterday at 6:27 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

I'm not entirely sure if I understand your point, but if you're making an analogy between the president and parents, and citizens and children, then I think that is a terrible way to think of an ostensibly democratic system.


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sans_souse • yesterday at 6:53 AM

I'm actually entirely sure I don't understand his point.

andai • yesterday at 8:21 AM

If we didn't need hand-holding we'd just vote on policy directly.

The argument is that people aren't equipped to do that, but that's a muscle they've never exercised, because... they aren't equipped to do that, because that's a muscle they've never exercised, etc. It's self-sealing.

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cgio • yesterday at 6:29 AM

Even NATO calls him daddy…

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