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Agree or Disagree?

What is the Purpose of Government?

True justice comes from the law itself, not from how it is administered, enforced or interpreted.

Agree or Disagree?

The only reason a government should have power is because the people agree to allow it to have power, and once it loses the support of the people, it must be replaced.

Untangling the Maze of American Politics

Maintain Social Order

Agree or Disagree?

Provide Public Services

What is a public good?

As Lord of the Flies showed, people without a strong leader will turn into animals and do all sorts of horrible things to one another, not the least of which is hitting the fat kid with the rock.

Agree or Disagree?

Who gets what, when and how...

What services should government provide?

People follow laws because they are afraid of getting punished for breaking them, not because society will be orderly.

There are always winners and losers

Who should pay for those services?

Politics is the process of answering these questions.

People's ideology, in part, determines how they answer those questions.

Basic Hallmarks of Democracy

Equality in Voting

Effective Participation

Enlightened Understanding

Citizen Control of the Agenda

Make Economic Decisions

Who Makes Decisions?

Provide for the Common Defense

Pluralism

Elitism

Hyperpluralism

Agree or Disagree?

Rights are inclusive

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The surest path to economic prosperity is an unregulated market economy.

The best way to have an orderly and just society is to have a strong offensive military force with a single strong leader.

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The government's job is to protect the weak from the strong.

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