Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

On 8/11/2024 10:53 am, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:43:52 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
 

On 11/7/24 16:18, Ralph Mowery wrote:

In article <sa0oij1ka6s1pfpghsar1hse7c2s7d7s54@4ax.com>, jl@glen--
canyon.com says...

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There are lots of people here, and in other countries, who think that
we have too much government. Killing the squirrel was an example.
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Of all the major crime going on in the city they go after one pet
squirrel.  Seems about right for the mentality of this country.  The
squirrel was easy to find.  Trapped in just a few rooms.  Maybe they
should give the man harboring the squirrel a few years in prison for
doing something so serious of a crime.Don't worry about the thousands of
illegal people in the city.

The US has always had thousands of illegal immigrants. They are exploited as cheap labour - not as cheap as slaves, but less of a capital investment.

That was the idea. There are plenty of things wrong in US society,
but the authorities chose to after an easy target and politicians
sought to use it to their advantage. Both parties deserve our scorn.

 Political parties should have no official existence in the workings of
elections or in government.
 The framers of our constitution debated that, and got it wrong.

The framers of the US constitution didn't like political parties, but the constitution that they wrote didn't prevent them from forming.
Political parties seem to be pretty much inevitable. Countries with proportional representation and multi-member electorates tend to have quite a few political parties, and coalition governments.
Matters that get dealt with privately as factional conflicts within the two dominant parties in two-party democracies get debated publicly between coalition partners in multi-party democracies. This seems to work better.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney