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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    I'm more than well aware how impossible it is.
    Theoretically speaking.... in a representative democracy.....

    What if KKK membership goes up a million percent by 2016 and a klan member is elected president. Would you be ok with your rights being subject to a vote??

    I believe rights can't be voted away. You do not seem to agree. What would prevent this theoretical scenario from happening?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinfix_15 View Post
    Theoretically speaking.... in a representative democracy.....

    What if KKK membership goes up a million percent by 2016 and a klan member is elected president. Would you be ok with your rights being subject to a vote??
    Theoretically speaking. Let's bring your theory a tad closer to reality.

    An openly racist president probably would have to be a senator or a governor. So it's unlikely they'd make it up the qualifying process. So they'd probably have to be pretty closeted to make it that far. Should a closeted racist make it all the way through, it really wouldn't matter what legislation he supported, since we have the three branches of government and a representative democracy. Any legislation he signed off on would have to be constitutional and supported by an also racist Supreme Court justice, a racist house, and a racist senate. If all of that happened, then I suppose we're beyond fucked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    Theoretically speaking. Let's bring your theory a tad closer to reality.

    An openly racist president probably would have to be a senator or a governor. So it's unlikely they'd make it up the qualifying process. So they'd probably have to be pretty closeted to make it that far. Should a closeted racist make it all the way through, it really wouldn't matter what legislation he supported, since we have the three branches of government and a representative democracy. Any legislation he signed off on would have to be constitutional and supported by an also racist Supreme Court justice, a racist house, and a racist senate. If all of that happened, then I suppose we're beyond fucked.
    In my theoretical scenario, it is assumed that the majority has become racists and is pushing for racist policy. If 53% of America decides that we should go back to slavery, what would prevent this from happening?

    If a majority of voters supported racist policy, what aspect of a representative democracy would prevent them from voting the rights away from others?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinfix_15 View Post
    In my theoretical scenario, it is assumed that the majority has become racists and is pushing for racist policy. If 53% of America decides that we should go back to slavery, what would prevent this from happening?

    If a majority of voters supported racist policy, what aspect of a representative democracy would prevent them from voting the rights away from others?
    Its already happening, its just the black race is the racists now, not the whites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    Its already happening, its just the black race is the racists now, not the whites.

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    (dont explode blank, it was a joke, some minor truth to it, but a joke nonetheless)
    Blank will avoid the question because the answer would involve limiting government......

    liberals love big powerful government with the ability to control every aspect of our lives.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
    "Let me be clearer. A voter who votes a way because of a belief that someone else's skin color disqualifies them from holding the position." - You
    That's exactly what I said. Why would you reword it to say something I didn't say?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sinfix_15 View Post
    In my theoretical scenario, it is assumed that the majority has become racists and is pushing for racist policy. If 53% of America decides that we should go back to slavery, what would prevent this from happening?

    If a majority of voters supported racist policy, what aspect of a representative democracy would prevent them from voting the rights away from others?
    Constitutionality prevents it now, and a lifetime seat in Supreme Court justices chair. So you'd have to get 5 justices to give the ok, and a overwhelming majority of racist members of the house and senate and a racist president. That's what it would take. An unprecedented order of human digression.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    That's exactly what I said. Why would you reword it to say something I didn't say?


    Constitutionality prevents it now, and a lifetime seat in Supreme Court justices chair. So you'd have to get 5 justices to give the ok, and a overwhelming majority of racist members of the house and senate and a racist president. That's what it would take. An unprecedented order of human digression.
    Should the government have the ability to be a dispensary of freedom???? Should a majority be able to control a minority in any regard?


    Now lets take that same question i just asked....... but replace the racists majority, with a poor majority or an uninsured majority.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
    That's exactly what I said. Why would you reword it to say something I didn't say?
    Seriously, you, of all people, are going to say that? Do you not even comprehend what you type? Please see professional help immediately.
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    Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post


    Constitutionality prevents it now, and a lifetime seat in Supreme Court justices chair. So you'd have to get 5 justices to give the ok, and a overwhelming majority of racist members of the house and senate and a racist president. That's what it would take. An unprecedented order of human digression.
    Cool, we didnt ask you to say how it wouldnt happen, we asked you to answer your statement on how it would be "adjusted"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
    Cool, we didnt ask you to say how it wouldnt happen, we asked you to answer your statement on how it would be "adjusted"

    try to stick to the topic
    This is the answer to Sinfix' question. Nice try though

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