• Altomes@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    One might argue that the government is there to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. James Madison certainly did

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      7 months ago

      Thus the beheading part. Spreading power was good for everyone.

      I’d rather have a billion USD as an American citizen than have 10 billion USD as a Russian oligarch. For some reason the GOP doesn’t seem to understand why.